No doubt your heart, like mine, is breaking for Haiti. All those people, those children, without homes or food or missing family members. It truly makes you stop and take a look around. Take a look at everything you have been blessed with. Can you imagine losing it all?
I want to help and I know many of you do too. Service is my spiritual gift, and it is a deep desire I have to help those in need. I don’t always know what it is I need to do, I just know that I have to do something.
I am so blessed with this blog and it has been a never ending source of opportunity for me. The opportunity I have right now is to use it to help Haiti. Crystal at Money Saving Mom has rallied the blogosphere to help Haiti. For every blog that posts about how they are helping Haiti, Crystal will be making a donation to Compassion International. Several bloggers are pledging to do the same, including myself.
Leave a comment about your efforts to help Haiti, and for each comment on this post by January 21st, I will personally donate $1 to Compassion International’s Haiti disaster relief fund. If you have a blog post, please include a link to your post below and I will donate an additional $1 per link. So, $1 per comment, $2 per link, up to a $500 total donation.
There is no obligation for you to donate as well, but if you are interested, even a small amount can help. Skip your morning Starbucks or a night out to dinner and donate the money you would have spent. It all adds up and it does make a difference. Even if you are unable to give financially, you can take a minute to leave a few comments on the astounding number of blogs raising money for Haiti.
Don’t forget, the biggest way you can help Haiti is to pray.
great idea! I hope you get a lot of posts!
Thanks for linking up! I too am like you in that my gift is that of service – I wish I could go down there and help. But since I can’t, the least I can do is find a way to make a difference here!
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This is a great thing you’re doing!
Wonderful idea! I am happy to help!
It’s really awesome that you are doing this!
Anything we can do to help is good thing. Thanks for doing this. My church is combining with others in our denomination to help through Mission of Hope.
This idea is awesome….so glad you are doing it. I just donated through text to the Salvation Army and am brainstorming about other ways I can help…
Thanks so much for the help you’re providing. I’ve donated via a fund established at my local Publix.
Thank you for doing this! I am praying for Haiti and all of the places throughout the world where clean water, lack of food and instability make life a daily struggle. Our family is also donating to the Red Cross.
Just awesome. Thanks for doing this.
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What a great idea and cause!
i posted about this on my FB page. i think it’s a great way for those who may not be able to contribute financially the ability to do something. we may not be able to do everything, but we can do SOMETHING!
Praying the people in Haiti.
We are all praying for those in Haiti. I have given my donation to The United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR Advance #418325) at http://new.gbgm-umc.org/umcor/. 100% of my donation will go to Haiti relief with all administration and other costs being borne by the United Methodist Church. Thank you for doing this.
What a wonderful idea!
This is a great cause…way to go, Couponing 101!!!!
I posted about it here: http://artohline.wordpress.com/2010/01/14/haiti/
The knitting blog community is really pulling together for Haiti (http://www.yarnharlot.ca/blog/archives/2010/01/13/the_knitsignal.html), and I think it’s wonderful what you’re doing too.
Praying for Haiti.
This idea is great.
I donated $200 to Samaritan’s Purse yesterday!
This is such a fantastic thing that all of these bloggers are doing. Thank you!
God bless you! Thank you
Today, I posted a note on Facebook about donating just by texting HAITI to 90999. Read more about it here and PLEASE help those in need: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/01/14/financial/f145718S28.DTL&type=business
Thank you for making comment-fueled donations! I texted my donation and am now making the blog rounds to increase the donation potential.
Saying prayers for Haiti. Unfortunately I don’t have much cash to spare but am checking out ways to donate on sites where I’ve earned points (like Mypoints) and giving as much as I can.
Thank you for doing this. I hope the word gets out.
I am donating through the Red Cross. It’s wonderful what you are doing. God bless you
Thank you for doing this. I hope many people comment! What an easy way to give. I will be praying for the people of Haiti.
praying for them.
Awesome idea–thank you!
You’re doinng a wonderful thing! I’ve also read that UPS is delivering donations to Haiti for free (up to 50 lbs)! Can’t wait to get home to throw some of my stockpile together for them!
I donated my Swagbuck points to the cause and am commenting on generous blogs like yours.
This is such an awesome way for you to help! Thanks
If you want some background on the desperate health situation (TB and AIDS) in Haiti before this latest crisis, Tracy Kidder’s book Mountains Beyond Mountains about Dr. Paul Farmer’s efforts there is an excellent and very readable resource.
I’m surprised there are not more comments than this posted yet! I, like so many Americans, have been a hard time of it lately with the economy slagging as it is. Then something like this happens and I realize that my “hard time” is a walk in the park compared to what some poeple are facing… What I have to offer is my prayers for those hurting people and thier families living elsewhere… May God bless and heal all affected by this… may they turn to Him to meet thier needs. I will post a link to this page on Facebook. Hopefully should drum up some more comments to help reach that goal! God bless you for your contribution!!
I texted to donate to the Red Cross, I have been retweeting about donating, and I have been keeping the Haitian people in my thoughts.
Thanks for what you are doing.
Thank you for doing this. It helps me feel like I am making a difference within my abilities.
a generous, charitable act. Thank you for this opportunity to help by only commenting on your helpful blog. My prayers to those in Haiti suffering.
Thank you for aiding individuals who have been affected by these awful circumstances.
I hope you get a lot of posts…truly a great idea! thanks a lot!
What a wonderful way to help. Thank you.
Thank you for doing this! We are also praying for the Haitian people. Our family has decided to give up eating out for a while and instead donate that money to World Vision to help in their relief work in Haiti.
Hi,
My church is helping with the disaster in Haiti! Hopefully, we can raise a significant amount of money to help! Thanks Again!
thank you. I will be sharing heartwarming stories that bring hope and a sense of togetherness and friendship for those who are lost and/or suffering; we all can be that friend, that someone who can make a difference, if only we look a little deeper, and dare to think a little greater… in loving memory of ga
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http://www.playworksgroup.com donated to Compassion International. Thanks for what you are doing!
Thanks for doing your part to help Haitian earthquake victims by taking time to link up with other blogs.
In addition to making donations, I’m giving $10 eCOUPONs to my online gift store Gifts For One Gifts For All (www.giftsforonegiftsforall.com) to those that have donated to organizations helping the Haitian earthquake victims. When the eCOUPON is redeemed, 10% of the purchase will also be donated to organizations helping Haiti. Read my blog for more details at http:/bit.ly/DONATE2HAITI on how you can receive your eCOUPON for donating.
For bloggers raising awareness or making donations for comments or links made and you want to thank those that have contributed to your blog, contact me at info@giftsforonegiftsforall.com to a eCOUPON you can give those that have help you give.
Don’t forget to contact me to receive your eCOUPON for doing your part to help Haitian earthquake victims.
This truly is an amazing thing to do for people in need. My heart breaks for them and my prayers go out to them.
thank you so much for doing this! i donated to UNICEF, donated some swagbucks & will be giving to my company’s relief effort. i’m also leaving comments on as many blogs as possible.
Donated 2500 points from MyPoints.com
That’s all I had
Happy to help god be with them
Thanks for doing this!
I donated $10 to the American Red Cross by texting the word Haiti to 90999 via my cell phone. If everyone who has a cell phone do this, it will make a HUGE difference…… keep doing what you are doing also…..God bless you!
Thank you for opening your heart (and wallet) to help these people in need! All thoughts and prayers go out to the people who’s lives were lost, their families, those left to pick up the pieces, and those helping in this effort!
Thanks, add one more.
AWESOME way to help!
Thank you for helping haiti! I hope Everyone will be ok
Thanks for doing this!
What a wonderful idea. Thank you for thinking of it!
Thank you for helping Haiti! My prayers are with all the people over there.
awesome job steph!
Thanks for this!! We made a donation through our church, and we found that my husband’s company will match our gift. I was so thrilled to discover that – people should check and see if their companies will do the same!
How wonderful that you’re doing this!
great idea love to help
I am praying for all affected by the earthquake.
My prayers are with the Haitians and the relief workers who are helping them put their lives back together.
A friend in my MOPS group collected supplies this morning for a group going over to serve soon. I took her a bag full of 1st aid supplies (band-aids, gauzed, ect.) Glad to help!
thank you for doing this!
Thanks for helping Haiti!
Hi,
I work at Walgreens, and there we are taking donations for Haiti through the Red Cross Haiti relif fund. One cool thing that you can do there is donate your Register Rewards to the fund, so if you have any Register Rewards that are about to expire, you can donate them to the fund.
what a wonderful idea. They need all the help they can get.
They really need to provide emergency visas for those who have relatives already here in the US and other countries, especially those poor children.
commenting to help!
thats nice of you.
Yay! I just donated a dollar. This is brilliant
What a loving act of kindness you are doing!!