If you want to donate to STORM RELIEF IN HAITI, please consider the LAMBI FUND

Before I look at the official NOAA site for tropical storm updates (http://www.nhc.noaa.gov), I turn to Jeff Masters' blog (http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/show.html) for his thorough updates and insightful comments. I see there things I find nowhere else, not only detailed analysis, forecasts and historical comparisons on current hurricanes and tropical storms, but also his thoughtful discussions of impacts on the various countries in the storms' path.

I want to pass on to you his recommendation for a place to donate to help storm victims in Haiti:

The Lambi Fund of Haiti

(http://www.lambifund.org). Here is what Jeff said about it in two recent posts in his blog:



I URGE YOU TO CONSIDER JEFF MASTERS' ADVICE AND LOOK THROUGH THE LAMBI FUND HOME PAGE FOR MORE INFORMATION:
http://www.lambifund.org

The Lambi Fund not only is helping the victims of the recent series of violent storms there, but it is deeply involved in developing long-term betterment for all of Haiti's people.

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With all this going on, it's often harder to remember the people in our country and elsewhere who need urgent help.

As for Palin, I'm hoping that Americans will not be as stupid as the GOP machine assumes. This is a turning point for the country, one way or the other.

Doesn't that sound exactly like the GOP ticket?

I wrote a whole post on it: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=3939460&mesg_id=3939460



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Not surprisingly, the Bush Administration and the candidates are not expressing any concern about the Haitian people. Their hypocrisy is enough to gag a toad.

Donate to.

He's been posting on the plight of the Haitians for weeks and just so new DU Posters understand. Dr. Masters put out a warning about "DEATH AND DISTRUCTION" about Katrina hitting New Orleans and it was the most hearfelt, terrifying post on the internet I've ever seen!

Jeff Masters is a "Good SOUL!" I trust any foundation or charity he recommends because he's not a BUSH BOT...and is in a "special place all his own."

Check out the Lambifund Website... These folks are trying to PLANT TREES on HAITI's Mountain Tops so they wont FLOOD...over and over and over.

Every little bit to help these people that Repugs and even Clinton envaded to always corrupt their government ...deserves some help...

in the aftermath of Katrina and have followed his blog ever since. He's taught me a lot. He has such a broad view, and his experienced skill as a storm analyst and also his insight and unfailing compassion, have been a steady inspiration. He's got real courage too - he was a Hurricane Hunter, one of the brave souls who fly into hurricanes to get essential data for storm forecasting, for years. A hero with wisdom and heart.

few and far between the "good souls."

--I will be sending a donation this week, when I get paid.

I'm hoping that readers of this thread who can't afford to donate can still contribute by passing the information on to others.

I've been searching for somewhere to donate that is not so tainted by corruption that one would have to wonder what monies are used for.

The Lambi Fund looks like just the org I've been looking for and a guarantee that donations will actually be used for relief to all Haitians! Thanks to you for putting this up and thanks to Jeff Masters for his recommendation.

If you read this thread and think it's worthwhile, please give a kick or a rec to keep it visible and spread the word.

Thanks and good night. :boring:

This is at the end of the current post on his blog, after an intensive discussion of Ike's present and future:


So - he'll be speaking on an internet radio program this afternoon.

nothing will change for haiti until it is reforested

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With such a glut of threads on just a few subjects, we miss so much.

800,000 Haitians - probably more - without the necessities of life, even food and water, and this is the only thread I have seen.