"It's important. It's a peacekeeping and humanitarian armada."

[starlady42]

GQMFs!  What (if anything) should be our response to the earthquake crisis in Haiti?!  You know the Enterprise would be there in a heartbeat, passing out blankets and synthesizing food and providing sexy doctors to help.

If you think we should band together and raise funds, make your voice heard!This is, after all, the community that saved calumfan 's dog

Comments

[eddiesteddy4711]

Just to let everyone know, you can text "HAITI" to 90999 to donate $10 to the American Red Cross; the donation will show up on your phone bill.

http://newsroom.redcross.org/2010/01/12/disaster-alert-earthquake-in-haiti/

You can also text "YELE" to 501501; this is a $5 donation.

[kannbrown65]

It would be great, either way, as long as they get the money they need. Given the infrastructure, and the amount of damage, they're going to need help for a while.

[audiograms]

Fundraising drive ftw

[chemist]

I think a fundraising drive is a great idea!

[hook_and_line]

I was just posting about this on my journal, but something I'd like to put out there is that people who can afford to donate think about doing so over an extended amount of time. A recovery effort like this is going to take an extremely long time, way beyond when the cameras stop rolling. I'd think smaller, sustained donations are better to any organization then huge ones in huge, sporadic bursts. I don't work for any aid organizations though, so I may be way off? I'm trying to think of how I'm going to go about with aid myself, so....

There's this fandom related LJ community. I don't know much about it, but everyone's linking to it today.

http://community.livejournal.com/help_haiti/

I hope everyone in this community's family and loved ones are safe, and no one was personally effected. <3 to you all.

[hook_and_line]

Oh, and wow, I ignored the original purpose of this entry, asking our opinions.... Well, I think if anyone can donate immediately, privately, they should do so right now in some way.

I'd like to see us do something, though. Maybe some sort of party post style telethon? Where for every post / comment someone donates like.... 50 cents, to a dollar? Like, I can see this in my mind, but I don't know how we'd go about doing that?

[ladythana]

Ooh! I like that idea. I don't know how it would work either... would we make it a pledge system where someone can sponsor you can will donate a certain amount per post (or you could sponsor yourself)? Sort of like a walk-a-thon but a party-a-thon? That could generate a lot :D

[hook_and_line]

Yes! That's more like what I was thinking. Like, it could be an Anarchy day, but for this sole purpose.