Haiti - Artists for Peace and Justice

From our friend Michael Stahl-David:

Hello everyone I know!!

Sorry for the mass email, but desperate times....

I'm sure a lot of you have heard about the 7.0 earthquake that has decimated Haiti, already the poorest country in the western hemisphere. I have travelled there several times in the last year, working at a film school, and also visiting with a priest and doctor named Father Rick Frechette. He is the real deal. For 25 years he's worked in Haiti building an orphanage, two hospitals, dozens of street schools, a food and water delivery system, and a job training site. With his team of Haitian workers he would even collect dead bodies that had been left discarded on the side of the road (even before the earthquake this would happen,) and make sure they got a dignified burial. Of course now he is completely overwhelmed, but he knows the community extremely well, knows how to stretch a dollar, and will be as effective as anybody can. If you donate somewhere, donate here. The situation is desperate. It's a recession, I know, but whatever you can. 

Thanks so much. 

-Michael

PS. The purpose of routing the money through the organization Artists for Peace and Justice, is to make sure that 100% of every single dollar gets to the relief workers in Haiti - all the overhead for this organization is paid for by Paul.

See the letter from Paul Haggis below,

Dear Friends and Members of Artists for Peace and Justice--

As you undoubtedly already know, a devastating 7.0 earthquake has struck Haiti. Its epicenter was just 10 miles outside Port-au-Prince, where our friend, doctor and community organizer Father Rick Frechette runs two pediatric hospitals, street schools in the slums, an abandoned children's home and so much more.  We've spoken to him and the news is terrible.  Walls have tumbled like cards at his beautiful new children's hospital.  Their old hospital, still functioning, has collapsed completely.  The orphanage has also sustained considerable damage, but no lives were lost there.   We don't know about any of the street schools we sponsor.  It is even causing an old atheist like myself to pray.  There is chaos everywhere. The sky has been described as filled with dust from the thousands of collapsed homes. Preliminary estimates are already placing the death toll at well over 100,000. 

If you are asking yourself what you can do, they desperately need emergency cash - any amount. Get it to us, and we will get a hundred percent of it into the hands of Father Rick and his team, to help dig people out of the collapsed hospital and schools, to buy emergency medicine, to supply badly needed water and food, to help fly in doctors for the wounded children, and so much more.

To make an donation, please go to www.ArtistsForPeaceAndJustice.com, or call Barbara at 310-319-1394.

To wire a payment immediately, please use the following information:

Bank:

Professional Business Bank

250 N Orange Street

Glendale, CA 91203

818-550-9555

Routing # 122243295

 

Beneficiary:

Artists For Peace & Justice

206 S Brand Blvd

Glendale, CA 91204

818-247-1007

Account # 200 404382

All checks can be sent to:

Artists For Peace & Justice

206 S. Brand Blvd.

Glendale, CA 91204

Thank you!

All my love,
Paul for the board of APJ

Maria Bello, Josh Brolin, James Franco, Jimmy Jean-Louis, Nathasha Koifman, Diane Lane, Michael Stahl-David, Oliver Stone, Madeline Stowe, Charlize Theron, Peter Tunney, Olivia Wilde