The United Jewish Appeal (UJA)
has so far raised over $200,000 for victims of the earthquake in Haiti with its Hope for Haiti Disaster Relief Fund.
The funds, which are supporting an IsraAID
team of medical staff from Israel
who are currently on the ground, have been so generous that IsraAID is expanding the scale of its operation, preparing another team to be sent next week. Currently, the 15-member team is working at the site of the collapsed central hospital in Port-au-Prince.
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"We saw people everywhere on the floors in the building and outside, people with amputations and bone-deep wounds, hundreds of them, the size of the catastrophe is unbelievable. Until we arrived, all of the injured were treated by only one local doctor and we were the first foreign backup team to operate in the hospital," said IsraAID volunteer nurse Sheva Cohen.
Donations to United Jewish Appeal’s Hope for Haiti Disaster Relief Fund can be made through www.ujadonations.com/haiti
or by calling 416-631-5705. All of the funds raised are being directed to IsraAID.
Donations to United Jewish Appeal’s Hope for Haiti Disaster Relief Fund are eligible to be matched by the Canadian government. Matching dollars will be allocated to Canada’s Haiti Earthquake Relief Fund.
IsraAID is a coordinating body of Israeli and Jewish NGOs in Israel that that has provided humanitarian aid worldwide.
Reprinted with permission from Shalom Life
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