Donate to Haiti & Help Save a Country [Donate Without Being Scammed & Help Relieve the Earthquake Effort]

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While we keep talking about new technology and gadgets here at TFTS, we can’t ignore what happened in Haiti. The major earthquake that shattered the small country has made thousands of victims. And without everyone contributing to the relief efforts in Haiti, the country will have a hard time getting back on track.

Luckily for us tech-addicts there are various ways to help out the country. At the same time there are lots of scammers out there willing to take advantage of the disaster in their favor and get some money in the process. Fortunately it isn’t very difficult to spot scams from the real thing and you should be able to donate, as much as you can, knowing that your money will get where they’re needed most.

There are various ways to donate and you can do it online or through SMS messages. Organizations like The American Red Cross, UNICEF and Doctors Without Borders already have set up donations sites and you can go ahead and donate as little as $10.

Haitian-born musician Wyclef Jean has setup a Yele Haiti Earthquake Fund which accepts $5 donations via SMS. Apple is accepting up to $200 donations straight from iTunes and since lots of people have iTunes accounts it shouldn’t be that difficult sending in donations.

Cell phone carriers in the USA also support the whole campaign. Simply send a SMS message containing the word HAITI to 90999 and you will be donating $10 which will show up on your next carrier bill. Carriers will also waive SMS messages costs for those dedicated messages and all the money will be directed to the Haitian earthquake effort.

So far it looks like text donations are coming in very fast. The Mobile Giving Foundation raised more than $11 million, the American Red Cross received more than $9 million while the Wycleaf Jean fund raised $2 million from text messages.

Have you donated already?

Picture from Mirror News