An earthquake measuring 7.3 on the Richter scale rocked parts of Haiti today leveling a hospital and sending the island residents screaming and running for their lives.
It is the biggest earthquake to hit the tiny island nation in history and officials fear there will be many casualties. At this time, aprts of the island is in darkness due to power outages which is making it difficult to emergency and medical crews to reach the injured and assess the damage.
Singer/songwriter Wyclef Jean, formerly of The Fugees, is so worried about the people in his homeland that he took to his Twitter page this evening to ask for Prayers and donations.
He wrote, “Haiti just got hit with a Major EarthQuake please call your family out there Now.”
Less than an hour later, he followed that tweet with an update and a plea for support.
He wrote, “Tsunami watch n haiti right now! People unite… Haiti just been hit again with a 5 point 9 earthquake! Please Pray.”
Wyclef also asked his followers to donate money to his Yele Haiti charity organisation: “Please text ‘Yele’ to 501501 to donate $5 to YELE HAITI.Your money will help with relief efforts. They need our help… please help if you can.” Read more…
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This soooo sad. Like Anna said in the previous post, “We as Americans, complain too much”.
I was waiting on Wyclef and Maxwell to come out and ask for donations
*thinking* I wonder if L boogie would do a charity concert to help the cause
So Lauren London said that is NOT her baby in the pic she is kissing so maybe thats why the baby has on pink vs blue
SR fam pray for family in haiti and every1 else in the country. I am unable to contact them and my family is going crazy right now… Words can not even express how I truly feel right now…
@ pyt305
I will keep your fam and the people of Haiti in my prayers
The new year is not getting off to a great start unfortunately…….
@pyt I am covering you and your fam in prayer and praying God has kept his hand on them and that they will be protected. I have a co worker from Haiti I need to call and check on her cause she has a ton of family still there.
*sidenote* who knew you were Haitian
@pyt
I will say a special prayer for your family in addition to all the people there. My soror’s dad went to Haiti to visit family and she cannot reach him either. He was in Port Au Prince last she spoke with him.
@pyt
Im praying for you and all of your fam in addition to the residents of haiti. Let’s pray the US decides to help them the way we rush to help other countries when disaster strikes.
@pyt my prayers are with you and your family as well as the others in Haiti who have been affected.
We’ve had 27 small ones where I am in less than a yr and the strongest was only 3.0 but I’m terrified because you never know which one is gonna be the big one. My prayers truly go out to these people
Prayers go out to everyone over there. It’s hard to look at the pictures.
@pyt305 Your family as well as all of Haiti will definately be in my prayers.