There have been many organizations that have gone to the aid of Haiti following the aftermath of the earthquake. People from all over the world have been working to save and rebuild the lives of the Haitian people. One of these organizations that have responded graciously in service is the American Red Cross. This association was founded in 1881 by Clara Barton. Since then it has been America’s leading emergency response organization. This organization does not just offer its services to America but also offers help to all those around the world that suffer from not only natural disasters but from war. Of every dollar that the Red Cross spends, 92 cents of it goes directly to humanitarian services and programs.
The Red Cross has been an enormous help to the people of Haiti since the earthquake. It has helped almost 1.9 million Haitians since the disaster on January 12th. Along with that they have spent $106.4 million on the needs of the people after the earthquake. As I was looking on their website talking about Haiti I found this lost of all the things that they have done since the earthquake. It is amazing what this organization has been able to do due to the donations of people across the country.
In the two months since the earthquake, the global Red Cross network has:
- Provided relief items for 400,000 people.
- Handed out nearly 99,000 tarps, tents and toolkits.
- Supplied meals for more than 1 million people.
- Distributed 40 million liters of clean drinking water.
- Built more than 1,100 latrines.
- Helped vaccinate more than 125,000 people.
- Coordinated the shipment of more than 1,800 units of blood to medical facilities.
- Treated more than 55,000 people at Red Cross hospitals or mobile clinics.
- Sent more than 23 million text messages with critical health advice to survivors.
- Received more than 28,400 registrations on its family linking Web site.
- Assisted more than 25,000 people who arrived in the U.S. following the earthquake.
- Deployed more than 600 responders to Haiti.
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Wow…it is amazing how an organized group can really make a difference. I believe that if every group that went over to help was as organized as the red cross then there would have been a lot more success.