purejuice

I am extremely suspicious of doers of good and wanted carefully to consider my options before donating to the relief of the Haitians.

Potable water is pretty much the third world issue. Lack of it is responsible for most of the deaths of all kinds, including in refugee camps and in genocides of attrition. Depriving people of potable water is a low-tech way to kill them.

I discover that the Haitians have never had potable water. It came in dead last in a survey of world water poverty eight years ago. The situation now is unimaginably bad, with unrecovered dead contributing cholera and other toxins to waters already fatally polluted with sewage (there is no sewer system in Haiti). The survivors, in a word, are going to die if they don't have cleaner water.

To which end I looked here for a reputable water provision charity and found this four-star one.

(I also noticed in my cruise of the charity watchdogs that Doctors without Borders is accused of creating new strains of the AIDs virus. Old news but not to me.)

Please donate to Water Missions International Haitian earthquake relief. Though they are Christian, they are sincerely committed to providing water without conditions to people of all faiths.

Without water, the Haitians who have survived will be wiped out.