Wyclef Jean - YELE & FeDex Airlift Drive January 17, 2010

Many people have already reached out to see what they can do right now. We are asking those interested to please do one of two things: Either you can use your cell phone to text “Yele” to 501501, which will automatically donate $5 to the Yele Haiti Earthquake Fund (it will be charged to your cell phone bill), or you can click on the link
https://co.clickandpledge.com/advanced/default.aspx?wid=23093
to DONATE.

Thank you,
Wyclef

The regular Yele Haiti website will resume in a couple of weeks. In the meantime our focus is on providing real-time information about the situation in Haiti.

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Emergency Airlift

Yéle Haiti has teamed up with Federal Express, AmeriCares and Airline Ambassadors for an airlift of medical supplies, food and other emergency items that are urgently needed to assist earthquake victims in Haiti. A FedEx plane will go to Port-au-Prince from Miami next week, the exact date to be determined based on securing landing clearance.

The public is invited to drop off specific items that will be part of the airlift. Yéle volunteers will be on site to screen the donations and will accept only the following items:

- nutrition bars (individual or in packages)
- blankets and sheets (unopened in store wrapping)
- non-battery radios and flashlights (windup or solar)
- candles (loose or in packages)

While the blankets are for people sleeping outdoors and on the street, the sheets are for wrapping bodies of the dead.

These items can be dropped off on Sunday, January 17th from 9:00am to 3:00pm at the following location:

Adrienne Arsht Center
1300 Biscayne Boulevard
Miami, FL 33132