Yesterday a brother asked me to create a fund for the Haiti earthquake for IslamicBoard members. Please feel free to send your donations to JannahRelief.com. We will be processed donations through IslamicReliefUSA and Ummah Welfare Trust. I tried sending a donation earlier, but UWT seems to be down. I've contacted both these organizations before and they sent me a letter of recognition for JannahRelief.
A massive earthquake has struck the Caribbean island of Haiti. The earthquake, 7 in the Richter scale, the most powerful to hit Haiti in 200 years, struck at 4.53pm local time (9.53pm GMT) on 12th January 2010, about 10 miles from Port-au-Prince. The earthquake was so strong it could be felt 200 miles away in Cuba. Tens of thousands of people are feared dead and many are still trapped alive underneath the rubble. Approximately three million people are believed to have been affected by the earthquake.
Hundreds of buildings in the capital collapsed including homes, hospitals, schools, the United Nations head quarters and the presidential palace.
Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive fears that the death toll could reach 100,000.
Ummah Welfare Trust has launched an emergency appeal to respond to the disaster, one third of the country’s 9 million people could need emergency aid.
Hospitals are struggling to cope with the large numbers of injured people and there is an urgent need for emergency medical care, food, clean water and shelter.
Haiti is the poorest country in the Western hemisphere, and struggles from endemic poverty, food shortages and violence. It has suffered from many recent natural disasters including disastrous hurricanes and storms in 2008.
Please donate and help us to respond to this disaster.
-Taken from uwt.org
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Our donations will be processed through UWT. Here, we are collecting all the funds and will send it to UWT in one big donation Insha’Allah. Please donate generously. The donation box is on the right sidebar.
Needless to say that the outcome of our fund is stupendous. Jazakumullahu Khair for all your donations. We have successfully completed 85% of our goal. Please fill up the final 15%!
Congratulations to all of you. Our goal of $500 has been reached. Insha'Allah I'll be seeking a letter and receipt which I can post as proof of donation.
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