Regenerating Haiti's flood-preventing forests - a Lambi Fund of Haiti project

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Please read about this important effort and also current storm relief efforts in this thread:

thread title (General Discussion): If you want to donate to STORM RELIEF IN HAITI, please consider the LAMBI FUND
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3951873

Home page for The Lambi Fund for Haiti:
http://www.lambifund.org

The thread also has a discussion of what I believe is the best site for information and anaysis of tropical storms: Dr. Jeff Masters' blog (http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/show.html). It's his recommendation of the Lambi Fund of Haiti that I am passing on to those who want to help but don't know how to avoid the pervasive corruption in Haiti's government.

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1. ***UPDATE FROM DR. JEFF MASTERS ON THE HAITI SITUATION***

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

http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=1074&tstamp=200809

The tragedy in Haiti

The death toll in Haiti due to the onslaught of Hurricanes Gustav, Hanna, and Ike, plus Tropical Storm Fay, is now over 1,000 people (http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/weather/bal-te.ike09sep09,0,1075018.story). At least 14,000 homes have been destroyed, and 800,000 people are without food, water, and/or shelter. The death toll is sure to rise higher as rescuers reach more remote flooded areas in coming days. The economic impact of the disaster is projected to be (http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/KSAI-7JB349?OpenDocument&rc=2&cc=bhs) greater than the 2004 devastation wrought by Hurricane Jeanne, which killed over 2,000 people. Haiti needs all the help it can get, and I want to thank everyone who has donated to the Lambi Fund of Haiti charity. They're an outstanding group that I've supported for a number of years, and they focus on fixing the underlying causes of poverty and natural disasters in Haiti.

Tonight, at 9pm EDT, I'll make my annual appearance on the Internet Partnership Radio program, "Center of Circulation". You can listen in at http://www.ipr365.com/. I'm usually on for at least 45 minutes.

I'll have an update this afternoon.

Jeff Masters
Updated: 2:49 PM GMT on September 09, 2008

So, he'll be speaking on Internet radio this afternoon. (I've also added this update to the main thread on this subject in General Discussion.)