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A Hand Up For Haiti 
If ever there was a call for compassionate action, it is coming from Haiti today. More than 200,000 people are dead. More than 3,000,000 are homeless. And this, in what is already the poorest country in the hemisphere. The U.N. Relief Agency has called it “The greatest humanitarian crisis of modern times.”
We must help.
Report on February 2010 ODFL Delegation to Haiti
ODFL has built a “Fundraising Kit” to help schools who want to conduct a fundraiser to aid the victims. It includes Public Service Announcements, a Call To Action flyer, a Fact Sheet, and more.
ODFL Haiti Fundraising KitContact Terry Kropp, Director of School Operations for ODFL, for questions | |||||||||
Drive-Specific Documents | How to use it |
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Call To Action | Send to faculty members; post for students | ||||||||
| Student to Student Appeal | Student Leader specific invitation to initiate action | Download (.pdf) | |||||||
| Fundraiser Approval Form | Fill out and return to ODFL | Download (.pdf) | |||||||
Fact Sheet | Save electronically and post as needed | ||||||||
Letter for Teachers | Faculty-specific to create momentum | ||||||||
| Where the Money is Going | Read more about HERF and its efforts in Haiti (also see below) | Download (.pdf) | |||||||
Haiti Box Label 1,2 | Print and paste onto collection envelope(s) | ||||||||
Flyers 1, 2, 3, 4 | Print, post widely to increase student awareness | ||||||||
| Scripts 1, 2 | Print, practice and read over school PA system | Download (.pdf) | |||||||
| Press Release | Send to local press/media or use as a model for your own press release | Download (.pdf) | |||||||
| Tips for Success | 10 tips from previous experiences to make your drive successful | Download (.pdf) | |||||||
| Intro to ODFL Video | Special for Key Clubs Watch Flash Version or Quicktime .mov video version | Download | |||||||
ODFL Background Documents | |||||||||
Quick 411 on ODFL | How ODFL Works | ||||||||
“Outstanding Youth | Understand ODFL | ||||||||
What We’ve Done in | Understand ODFL | ||||||||
Video Public | For schools with video announcement capabilities | Watch or download | |||||||
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EVERY DOLLAR collected during this campaign will be sent for emergency relief to Haiti through the Haiti Emergency Relief Fund (HERF).
Two teachers at Los Altos High School, Seth Donnelly and Ryan Ikeda, have traveled to Haiti many times to work with HERF on health, agriculture, and sanitation projects. They report it is one of the most effective—and enduring—development agencies working in Haiti today.
Can you please organize a fundraiser at your school to help? Send an email to haiti@odfl.org. We will send you the Fundraising Kit and provide you all the assistance you need.
The highest proof of our humanity is our compassion. And the highest proof of our leadership is our capacity to act, to inspire others to become the bigger people they truly want to be. This is our opportunity to demonstrate both.
Thank you for your support of this vision. Please let us know how we can help you.
Yours in a Better World,
ODFL
Haiti Emergency Relief Fund and ODFL
The Haiti Emergency Relief Fund (HERF) is a project of the East Bay Sanctuary Covenant (EBSC). EBSC provides assistance to refugees from all over the world and supports economic development projects in impoverished countries. EBSC is a registered non-profit 501(c)(3) organization (tax ID#94-3249753) so donations to HERF are tax-deductible.
HERF was established in March, 2004, by Haitian and non-Haitian citizens in the Bay Area of California in response to the devastating conditions in Haiti following the coup d’etat of February 29th, 2004. HERF helps sustain community organizers and grassroots organizations by working in the areas of education, democracy, health, and economic development. There is no overhead that siphons off a percentage of donations to HERF. All donations to HERF go directly to Haitian schools, clinics, neighborhood associations, and human rights organizations, among others.
Since its founding, HERF’s funds have been spent on the following programs, just to name a few:
- Education/Literacy: Since 2004, government subsidies for school children were cut and many literacy projects were terminated. HERF provided funding for two important educational projects in this period: a school for poor children in Port-au-Prince called SOPUDEP and an educational project in the rural areas of northern Haiti. For more information on SOPUDEP, go to www.sopudep.org.
- Rural Development: HERF supported the efforts of peasant communities in northern and southern Haiti to improve production of local crops, run community schools for children, and operate adult literacy programs.
- Hurricane Relief: In the wake of Hurricane Ivan and Tropical Storm Jeanne in September, 2004, HERF provided much-needed funds directly to grassroots, neighborhood organizations in the devastated areas.
- Independent Human Rights Monitoring: HERF helped fund human rights workers and attorneys who work to document human rights violations, defend victims of repression, and provide material and legal assistance to victims of the 2004 coup.
Now, in response to the earthquake on January 12th, 2010, HERF has already begun providing concrete assistance directly to the Haitian people. Within the first two weeks of the earthquake, HERF has already helped in the following ways:
- Medical Supplies: HERF sent a truckload of medical supplies to the Aristide Foundation, which has become a center for medical relief work in the Port-au-Prince area. Thousands of people sought refuge in the Foundation right after the earthquake, and – with your support – the organizers there have begun to provide food, water and medical care for those in need.
- Medical Services: HERF has facilitated the travel of nurses and medical technicians to Port-au-Prince, using our networks to insure that they connect with communities that are in the most need. HERF has provided a generator for a clinic in Cite Soleil, one of the poorest neighborhoods in Port-au-Prince.
- Homeless Relief: HERF has given funds to a series of neighborhood committees organized to house the homeless and provide food and water for those who have been unable to obtain any other kind of aid. HERF has provided funds to help house children in Cite Soleil who have been orphaned as a result of the quake.
- Schools: HERF has aided schools in the Port-au-Prince area, including SOPUDEP – a school that serves the poorest children in the Petionville community, on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince. It has provided funds for hundreds of tarps for school students whose homes have been destroyed. Once the situation is stabilized, HERF will assist in the reconstruction of the school.
HERF gives aid, not charity. Because it is already well established on the ground in Haiti, HERF’s people work quickly, and directly with those most in need. Its aid goes directly into the hands of Haitians. HERF has also worked directly with California high school teachers to monitor the integrity and the efficacy of funds invested in Haiti.
In April 2010, teachers from Los Altos High School and other schools will travel to Haiti at their own expense. They will inspect and monitor the disposition of funds raised through the One Dollar For Life™ “A Hand Up for Haiti” campaign, including filming work and services rendered and documenting their impact. They will report back to donor schools upon their return.
For more info on HERF, go to www.haitisolidarity.net and www.haitiaction.net.
HERF Board Members:
Walter Riley
Civil rights attorney, Chair of the Haiti Emergency Relief Fund
Sister Maureen Duignan, O.S.F.
Co-Chair, Haiti Emergency Relief Fund
Pierre Labossiere,
Board Member, Haiti Emergency Relief Fund, Co-Founder of Haiti Action Committee
Randall White
Deacon, Allen Temple Baptist Church, Board Member HERF
Robert Roth
Educator, Co-Founder Haiti Action Committee
Marilyn Langlois
Board Member, HERF, community advocate for Mayor's office in Richmond CA