Getting help to Haiti

Here is a list of organizations involved with helping Haiti. I have signed up with Interaction.org and CIDI.org in my own attempt to get over to Haiti. Finally I really know (besides just a feeling) that I have very solid skills to be able to help in the rapidly changing situation in Haiti.

http://www.interaction.org/crisis-list/earthquake-haiti

If you are looking to donate to an organization working in Haiti and other parts of the world check the link out.

What I am sick of is people who do not donate because they state that the money will not get to Haiti or be diverted. Most organization do not divert funds anymore - especially after the debacle the Red Cross faced after the World Trade Center was attacked on 9/11/2001. I heard someone say today they would rather 'give money to a bum on the street' then send money overseas. I wrote this idiot/jerk off right away as a know it all ignorant American.

Do something people, anything. I donated money to Partners in Health and the Red Cross. Now, I am trying to donate my skills and time. Lets hope I find a taker.

Thanks for reading,

David

Trying to get to Haiti after the Earthquake

I have applied to at least three organization to go to Haiti and assist after the earthquake hit last week. I have Emergency Room experience (not to mention hospice, pediatrics and PTSD experience) and am a Firefighter/Rescue and EMS responder in a remote area. In short, I have many many skills, medical and otherwise that I can put to use. I have cross-cultural experience and generous amounts of cross-cultural experience.

It is frustrating but I hope in the next month that I am able to find a way to help even if it is for a short time.

Aloha Mrs. Walsh upon leaving the planet at 0155. Malama pono, a hui
hou. Rest in peace, safe journeys, thanks for so much love and wow,
Morris is one of the greatest sons for you and my friend. Thank you
Mrs. Walsh, thank you. You are missed.

I'm currently in Sacramento, California sitting with a friend of mine
whose mother is dying. Death is a reflection of life. A friend sent me
an article awhile ago and the title was something like . . . we are
born towards dying. Here is the link.

http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/2009/01/born-toward-dying

Very thoughtful. I'm not religious in any conventional sense. I like
to think I live an ethical life but then again so did Uncle Joe Stalin.

So I sit shiva with my friend. His mom closer to death then life but
comfortable, loved and pain free. The things we endure as humans! How
lucky I am and it is just enough to have clean water, food and
shelter, to not be hunted or tortured or have my land and business
surrounded by checkpoints and walls.

An honor to sit with my friend and his dying mum, his girlfriend and
simply be together in death and in life.

Professor Tony Marsella, PhD Psychology and David McCullough, RN, MA
Psychology. Tony was my thesis advisor at the University of Hawai'i. I
had not seen him till today in over 10 years. His wit, intelligence
and empathetic understanding are writ large. I miss working with him.