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1) Get involved in your community. Join an organization whose position and views corresponds with yours. Get involved in Haitian communities? activities, in your church activities, tutoring Haitian kids, voters? registration etc.

http://www.haitianconsulate-nyc.org/les_associa.htm

http://www.fouye.com/directory

http://www.haiti-reference.org/index-ht/liste_a-d.html

http://www.haiti-reference.org/ (good directory of Haitian businesses and Organizations)

2) Give what you can. Locate different organizations that offer support to Haiti and give a gift to the one you feel most closely resemble you ideals. Some examples

http://www.fouye.com/directory/index...39&t=sub_pages

http://www.camp-perrin.com/

http://www.lambifund.org

www.quixote.org/haiti

http://www.fhash.org/

3) Be Conscious of what?s going on by reading local, national, and international papers. Respond to the media to express your opinions, let them know that a Haitian person reading their paper agrees or disagrees with statements in their papers

4) Buy Products from Haiti buying Haitian products will help strengthen Haiti?s economy also buy items from groups and organization you know to support Haiti

5) Learn and teach. Talk to friends and family about what is going in Haiti, educate yourself and others about the rich history of the Haitian culture, come up with solutions no matter how small that can help Haiti

6) Speak out. Call (preferred), e-mail, or write you local, state and national representatives to let them know what you think.

President George Bush

Phone: (202) 456-1414

e-mail: president@whitehouse.gov

Senate Minority Leader Tom Dashle (D-SD)

Phone: (202) 224-5556

Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-MS)

Phone: (202) 224-3135

House leadership. http://www.house.gov/house/orgs_pub_hse_ldr_www.html

Rep. Nancy Pelosi, House Democratic Whip,

H-307, The Capitol ,Washington, D. C. 20515

202.225.3130

To find local member of the senate http://www.senate.gov/senators/senator_by_state.cfm or http://www.senate.gov/contacting/index.cfm

To find local members of congress http://www.house.gov, http://www.house.gov/house/MemberWWW.html

Ministry of Haitians Living Abroad

37, Rue Duncombe, Port-au-Prince

Minister: Mr. Leslie Voltaire

Director General 245-0287

Reception 245-7006

Secretariat 245-1116

Administration 245-2063

Etats-Unis d'Amérique

Chargé d'Affaires a.i. M. Louis Harold Joseph

2311 Massachusetts Ave., N.W.

Washington, D.C. 20008, U.S.A.

Tel: 202-332-4090

Fax: 202-745-7215

E-mail: embassy@haiti.org

To find you local Consulate go to http://www.palaisnational.info/pnh/html/missions.htm

7) Travel to Haiti traveling to Haiti will help the struggling tourism industry, travel in groups as with mission or just to visit family back home, and if you find that you really can not make the trip donate a portion of the trip expense to an organization that you know support Haiti

http://www.haititourisme.org/

http://www.jacmelhaiti.net/

http://www.tropical-haiti.com/

8) SUPPORT HAITI DIRECTLY: Become a critical part in the processes back home while supporting sustainable structures and pillars such as Education, Health, Agriculture and Irrigation

9) SUPPORT HAITI INDIRECTLY: Naturalize and participate in the electoral process, let our voices count, run for office, strive to own business (Haitian community enrichment and empowerment), Support local Haitian businesses.

10) Pass this around, share this with other readers, and people of Haitian descent, and also keep Haiti in your Prayers.