• More than 400 Red Cross workers from around the world as well as several thousands of local volunteers are addressing urgent needs and mobilizing a massive response operation in Haiti.
• Relief materials are being delivered, and more help is on the way. The Red Cross spent the weekend delivering more than 300,000 liters of clean drinking water to survivors gathering in three different communities. Latrines have also been built in the same areas to help address sanitation issues.
• As of Sunday, the Red Cross set up two medical centers to triage and treat, approximately 200 people per day. Three additional medical centers are being set up as of this report’s release.
• First aid posts have been set up in the streets, where Red Cross workers and volunteers from Haiti and other countries are working side-by-side to clean and stitch up wounds amidst the rubble.
• Special Red Cross teams trained in search and rescue were able to save 40 people from a collapsed supermarket, including a small child, after 26 hours of continuous efforts.
• Over the weekend, three planes carrying Red Cross humanitarian assistance arrived in the region, delivering a field hospital and needed materials such as tarps, blankets, hygiene items, buckets, shelter supplies and kitchen sets. Another shipment of supplies for 20,000 families arrived Monday on a cargo plane provided in partnership with FedEx.
• The Red Cross is training 40-100 Creole-speaking volunteers who will work as translators on the USS Comfort when Haitians will be brought aboard for medical care.
• In the days ahead, the Red Cross will begin to provide temporary shelters in Haiti. Kits, containing tarps, rope and tools, as well as tents and blankets, will be made available for an initial 20,000 families. Red Cross Office in Mobile Open on Monday to Take Donations

You can help the victims of countless crises, like the recent earthquake in Haiti, around the world each year by making a financial gift to the American Red Cross International Response Fund, which will provide immediate relief and long-term support through supplies, technical assistance and other support to help those in need. The American Red Cross honors donor intent. If you wish to designate your donation to a specific disaster, please do so at the time of your donation. As listed below, there are several ways to donate to the American Red Cross and the Haiti relief effort.

Ways to Donate:

• Call 1-800-RED CROSS or 1-800-257-7575 (Spanish)
• Online at www.redcross.org
• Mail:           American Red Cross
    Alabama Gulf Coast Chapter
    P.O. Box 1764
    Mobile, AL 36633
• Text the word "HAITI" to 90999 to send a $10.00 donation

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