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Haiti Earthquake

JANUARY 12, 2010

Earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale hits Haiti and causes major damage.

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Q102.7 KBIQ and Food For The Poor need your assistance to help residents of Haiti recover from the earthquake. This earthquake has affected numerous families in Haiti that already live at the lowest economic level and many suffer from a lack of food and medical care.

An estimated 80% live in abject poverty. More than half of the population, including two-thirds of the children, suffers from malnutrition. About 76 of every 1000 children die before reaching their fifth birthday.

Food for the Poor has an established workforce in Haiti and you can help them provide relief to the residents affected by the earthquake.

Just click on this button to donate now.

or call
1-866-433-HOPE
(1-866-433-4673)

Here's a video featuring Mike Stoudt from The Fish, one of Q102.7 KBIQ's sister stations in Atlanta, showing you some of the conditions existing in Haiti before the earthquake. As you will see, many of thes structures would not be able to withstand an earthquake, especially one of the magnitude that hit.

Just click on this button to donate now!

or call
1-866-433-HOPE
(1-866-433-4673)

Food For The Poor serves in communities where the unemployment rate reaches as high as 70%. With food prices rising, Haiti's poorest can't afford even a daily plate of rice, and some take desperate measures to fill their bellies. Many mothers have come to rely on a traditional Haitian remedy for hunger pangs: cookies made of dried yellow dirt from the country's central plateau. The cookies are made of dirt, salt and vegetable shortening. Then they pat the mixture into mud cookies and leave them to dry under the scorching sun. They cost 5 cents a piece and are a bargain compared to food staples. They have become a regular meal. The cookies cause stomach pains and offer no nutritional value. In Haiti, each year an estimated 38,000 Haitian children between the age of 0 and 5 die because of malnutrition.

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