{"id":579,"date":"2010-02-02T20:16:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T19:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soulrebel.5ihpdchk8j-eqg35wmn23xn.p.temp-site.link\/breaking-news-haiti-help-relief\/"},"modified":"2015-06-08T11:29:07","modified_gmt":"2015-06-08T10:29:07","slug":"breaking-news-haiti-help-relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soulrebelmovement.com\/?p=579","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING NEWS: The HAITI Help Relief!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong>After years of slavery, abuse, and misfortune, Haitians are hit in the heart once again.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_Xe4Ki85kF5E\/S2iJPySDXtI\/AAAAAAAAACg\/uvL2ZAHAJ00\/s1600-h\/haiti-earthquake.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;\" src=\"http:\/\/soulrebel.5ihpdchk8j-eqg35wmn23xn.p.temp-site.link\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/haiti-earthquake.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5433743854711037650\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_Xe4Ki85kF5E\/S2iJQr8awrI\/AAAAAAAAACw\/bw8X9Kt9edY\/s1600-h\/Haiti+eartquake+victem.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;\" src=\"http:\/\/soulrebel.5ihpdchk8j-eqg35wmn23xn.p.temp-site.link\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Haiti-eartquake-victem.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5433743870189552306\" \/><\/a><br \/>Many people surround me seem to link Haiti\u2019s latest disaster to the countries voodoo practices. A lot of Christians I know think it is what they get for turning to voodoo men and women, instead of praying to a divine God. <br \/>Not only do I think it is absurd, there is no scientific proof to this accusation as well. If you ask me, I think it is the geographically state of the country. <br \/>Haiti is radically geographically disadvantaged. The tiny country must deal with the effects of being situated in an area of heavy hurricane activity. The country sits atop of two major fault lines, one of which was responsible for this series of earthquakes.<br \/>Add up the poor quality and unsafe buildings in Port-au-Prince. Even a minor magnitude -5.0 quake will have had a great impact. The accusation therefore to my knowledge is false and it is injected into the world by people such as Pat Robertson who puts ideology before facts.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_Xe4Ki85kF5E\/S2iJQEVoKEI\/AAAAAAAAACo\/RHtDO08MDk4\/s1600-h\/haiti.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;\" src=\"http:\/\/soulrebel.5ihpdchk8j-eqg35wmn23xn.p.temp-site.link\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/haiti.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5433743859557869634\" \/><\/a><br \/>But that is not important. More important would be the question \u201cHow can we help?\u201d<br \/>After seeing the heart wrenching pictures on television, any person with good heart would like to help. But can you trust your money to the Funds? Is it safe to donate?<br \/>President Bush, standing in the middle of President Clinton and Obama said: <br \/>\u201cI know a lot of Americans wants to send blankets and water. Just send cash\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>You have got to love his straight forwardness. Following that statement I read on my TV screen: Send cash to the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund. Are you kidding me? Both gentlemen as a head of state helped create this recession we are in now. I can\u2019t trust my money to them. <br \/>To be frankly, I don\u2019t trust any large organization with my money.  Following the Tsunami and Katrina many generous and well meant people lost their money to fraudulent charities. <br \/>Normally I let these things pass me by. I am a field soldier. I would rather be on the scene and help out than trusting my money into the hands of people I have never met or who have yet to prove their sincerity to me. But I have changed my mind for a bit. <br \/>Let\u2019s just say the great work of YDSS opened up my eyes and a good lady-friend pulled my leg about the fact I was generalizing all organizations. <br \/>Since I am made aware that there indeed are good, worth the try organizations out there, I really want to donate in order to help my Haitian people who are suffering and needs our help in this difficult time. I am familiar with a couple of organizations but since I don\u2019t really pay them any to no mind, I had to Google all of them: American RedCross, UNICEF, Direct Relief International, Doctors Without Borders, Habitat for Humanity and so on. I saw a lot of good things done by these organizations according to their websites but I decided to go for a smaller but familiar organization. <br \/>For some years I\u2019ve been following Wyclef\u2019s Y\u00e9le Haiti organization and the good work they\u2019ve been doing in Haiti.  I got a friend who will vouch for it. Wyclef himself have written the following statement on the website;<br \/> \u201cThe objective of Y\u00e9le Haiti is to restore pride and a reason to hope, and for the whole country to regain the deep spirit and force that is part of our heritage.\u201d<br \/> At this very moment these goals are more than ever needed.<br \/>Wyclef is a native of Haitian. I believe he has the people\u2019s interest at heart. As a native and being a man with good character as I come to think of him, I would choose him any other day over the others. I have donated 50 Euros to Y\u00e9le Haiti Foundation. Take my word for it, because I am not going to print the receipt. If I was going to lie, I would have said 1000 Euros or more, don\u2019t you think? Also don\u2019t sweat me about the modest 50 Euros. I am independent plus I\u2019ve got\u2026.you know what\u2026.mind your own business.<br \/>The Soul Rebel Movement and Apo-clipZ holds the people of Haiti in our prayers.<br \/>Check out the Y\u00e9le Haiti website and see how you can help: http:\/\/www.yele.org\/<\/p>\n<p>Kno\u2019Ledge Cesare<br \/>The Soul Rebel Movement<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After years of slavery, abuse, and misfortune, Haitians are hit in the heart once again. Many people surround me seem to link Haiti\u2019s latest disaster to the countries voodoo practices. A lot of Christians I know think it is what they get for turning to voodoo men and women, instead of praying to a divine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[309],"class_list":["post-579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-algemeen","tag-haiti-wyclef-jean-soul-rebel-movement-foundation-knoledge-cesare-bush-clinton-funds-obama-voodoo-earth-quake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soulrebelmovement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/soulrebelmovement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/soulrebelmovement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soulrebelmovement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soulrebelmovement.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/soulrebelmovement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soulrebelmovement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soulrebelmovement.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soulrebelmovement.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soulrebelmovement.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}