Half Way There…
Posted: January 24th, 2010 | Author: LumDimSum | Filed under: A Day In My Life | Tags: Charity, Haiti Rise, Hatsune, JUMP foundation, The Bookworm | No Comments »Thank you for supporting the HAITI RISE campaign kick-off celebration!
Your participation in this campaign, and your overwhelming generosity on Friday, our campaign launch at The Bookworm, demonstrated the solidarity the Beijing community has shown for Haiti.
At the end of the night, we raised RMB 11,765. However, after personal and organizational matching an AMAZING 1:7 donation match was set up. Meaning every RMB100 you gave became RMB700.
IN TOTAL: USD 15,200 or approximately RMB 103,846 was donated to Partners In Health’s STAND WITH HAITI Campaign.
Last night, our donations were sent to PIH and will soon be on the ground in Haiti, enabling PIH to continue to partner with Haitians to build back better.
Ophelia Dahl, Director of Partners In Health, sent us a message which includes a special shout out to the Beijing community.
This is the start of a campaign focused on funding and promoting sustainable development in Haiti.
Don’t forget, you are invited to join HAITI RISE for more events.
Next Up: Eat for Haiti
Each voucher is RMB 200, which can be used in any participating “HAITI RISE” restaurant, so that’s RMB 200 off your total bill, and each restaurant will donate 100RMB directly to the HAITI RISE Fund.
**Complete List of participating restaurants:
- Hatsune – Guanghua Lu: 6581-3939, Sanlitun: 6415-3939
- Kagen – 6583-6830
- Karaiya Spice House – 6415-3535
- Kagen Teppanyaki – 6583-2332
- SALT – 6437-8457
- Oden – 6506-6700
- Meat & Wine Co. – 6512-1761
- Sadler Ristorante – 6559-1399
- All-Star Sports Bar & Grill – 5905-6999
- Metro – 6552-7828
- Grange @ The Westin Beijing Chaoyang- 5922-8880
- Seasonal Tastes @ The Westin Beijing Chaoyang – 5922-8880
- Zen5es @ The Westin Beijing Chaoyang – 5922-8880
- Scarlett Wine Bar & Restaurant – 6552-2880
- Punjabi - 5867-0221
- Invito – 5905-6906
- Tamarind @ Marriott Northeast – 5927-8888
For voucher sales & info, please contact me directly: kristen@lumdimsum.com
Education on Haiti (historical and current) and a long-term commitment to development in Haiti are our core motivations for forming Haiti Rise.
EDUCATION: Please see the links below, they are good sources of information about Haiti. If you have any recommendations for good websites and blogs related to Haiti, please send them our way.
LONG-TERM DEVELOPMENT: If you would like to be part of a long-term development commitment to Haiti, please email haitirise@gmail.com
INFO on Partners In Health:
To run an event at your school or workplace, see following link for PIH event package: http://act.pih.org/page/content/event-materials/
For more info on PIH: see attached PIH document
For more videos on PIH see: http://www.pih.org/inforesources/videonetwork.html
FIRST-HAND information about the current situation in Haiti, please see the following blogs:
Regine Zamor, US-born, Haitian writer on the ground in Haiti: http://bagaydwol.wordpress.com/
Isabelle Jeanson from Doctors Without Boarders Blog from Haiti Quake Zone: http://blogs.abc.net.au/events/haiti/
Isabelle Jeanson from Doctors Without Boarders Blog from Haiti Quake Zone: http://blogs.abc.net.au/events/haiti/
Michael Deibert, journalist and author, HAITI blog: http://www.deiberthaiti.blogspot.com/
Stuart Cole, works for Plan International (Promoting Child Rights To End Child Poverty) Haiti blog: http://plan-international.org/about-plan/resources/news/haiti-blog-speed-the-issue-for-aid-teams
An essay from a NYtimes writer on the ground in Haiti: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/21/essay-11/?scp=1&sq=maggie&st=cse
Stuart Cole, works for Plan International (Promoting Child Rights To End Child Poverty) Haiti blog: http://plan-international.org/about-plan/resources/news/haiti-blog-speed-the-issue-for-aid-teams
An essay from a NYtimes writer on the ground in Haiti: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/21/essay-11/?scp=1&sq=maggie&st=cse
HUBS for Haiti Earthquake info:
http://edition.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2007/impact/ (GOOD SOURCE OF ORGANIZATIONS DOING RELIEF WORK)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8458690.stm (BBC’s Interactive Map’s – gives good perspective of scale)
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/01/17/world/americas/haiti-earthquake-multimedia.html (GREAT NYTimes multimedia)
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/haiti/index.html (NYTimes General Haiti Page)
http://www.essex.ac.uk/armedcon/world/americas/caribbean/haiti/default.html (For info on what it was like before the quake)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8466595.stm (BBC – crisis in Haiti)
Some grassroots NGOs doing work in Haiti before the quake:
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