Thursday, January 14, 2010
Earthquake in Haiti
The Boston Globe's Big Picture blog has photo's from the Haiti Earthquake in 2010.
Tuesday afternoon, January 12th, the worst earthquake in 200 years - 7.0 in magnitude - struck less than ten miles from the Caribbean city of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The initial quake was later followed by twelve aftershocks greater than magnitude 5.0. Structures of all kinds were damaged or collapsed, from shantytown homes to national landmarks. It is still very early in the recovery effort, but millions are likely displaced, and thousands are feared dead as rescue teams from all over the world are now descending on Haiti to help where they are able. As this is a developing subject, I will be adding photos to this entry over the next few days, but at the moment, here is a collection of photos from Haiti over the past 24 hours. -Earthquake in Haiti, The Big Picture for the Boston Globe
There’s really not much to say. The 7.0 magnitude earthquake has and will continue to devastate Haiti for the years to come. The displacement of millions of people, the loss of life, the rebuilding of infrastructure. The global response has been swift, and heartening. If you’re planning to donate, you can do any of the following:
- The Red Cross: Donate to Haiti earthquake relief efforts by texting “haiti” to 90999. Gives $10. Can text multiple times.
- Yele: Text “Yele” to 501501 to donate $5 to Yele Haiti— Wyclef Jean (@wyclef) created this foundation to permanently improve the lives of the most impoverished in his home country of Haiti.
- Partners in Health— Partners is in Haiti and mobilizing relief efforts.
- Read: Six Ways You Can Help Haiti by Chris Sacca.
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- On 02/04/2010, David Hardwick says:
I wish that I could do more to help these people. The above picture of the young child is very poignant. I would love to be able to use my skill to photograph suffering so that the lucky people know what is happening around the world.
- On 05/12/2010, HMOPPO says:
Three years ago a similar thing happened that came out of it but took years to recovered in any fasion.
- On 09/06/2010, Motorhome cover says:
I would love to be able to use my skill to photograph suffering so that the lucky people know what is happening around the world.
- On 09/21/2010, Life Hammer says:
Those of you who way you would love to use your photography skills to help the people of Haiti should take on the challenge to go down there and do it. You could take pictures of the beauty of Haiti and contrast them with the tragedy of the earth quake stricken areas and sell them for a profit. Then you could donate a small portion to Haiti and everyone would benefit.