How you can help

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People from Winnipeg’s Haitian community and local volunteers with Save the Children Canada are staking out The Forks Market this weekend to collect donations for Haiti earthquake relief. Donations will be accepted at the Save the Children booth Friday, Jan. 22 starting at 5 p.m. and all day Saturday and Sunday. Winnipeggers from Haiti will be there intermittently to answer questions about the situation in their former home.

Canadian Red Cross: www.redcross.ca/helpnow, or call toll free 1-800-418-1111 or visit any Red Cross office. Locally, donors can call the Winnipeg office at 1111 Portage Ave. at 1-866-685-4250. Cash donations can be dropped off at any of the city’s 26 fire halls, made out to the Canadian Red Cross Haitian relief effort.

Mennonite Central Committee: Call 261-6381 or toll-free 1-888-622-6337 or visit mcc.org. By mail: MCC, 134 Plaza Dr., Winnipeg, R3T 5K9. Be sure to designate donations Haiti Earthquake.

Humanitarian Coalition (consists of CARE Canada, Oxfam Canada, Oxfam-Quebec and Save the Children Canada): www.thehumanitariancoalition.ca

Plan Canada: https://plancanada.ca/NetCommunity/SSLPage.aspx?pidid

Salvation Army: www.salvationarmy.ca or call 1-800-725-2769. Bell Mobility customers can make $10 donations by texting the word "haiti" to 45678. Donations can be mailed to Army Territorial Headquarters, Canada and Bermuda, 2 Overlea Blvd., Toronto, ON M4H 1P4. Donations can also be dropped off at local Salvation Army units. Specify "Haiti Earthquake Disaster Relief Fund."

Doctors Without Borders: www.msf.ca

Unicef Canada: www.unicef.ca

Jewish Federation of Winnipeg: Call 477-7428 or visit www.jewishwinnipeg.org. Mail or in person: C300-123 Doncaster St., Winnipeg, R3N 2B2

World Vision Canada: www.worldvision.ca/give-a-gift/Pages/EarthquakeinHaiti.aspx

Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace:  Donations for the Haiti crisis can be made by phone (1 888 664-3387), or on their  website  www.devp.org.

God’s Littlest Angels Canada: Box 984, Okotoks, AB, T1S 1B1.

HOPE International: www.hope-international.com . 1-866-525-4673.

Sisters of Holy Cross:  Attn: Sr. Norma McDonald, csc.  200 av. de la Cathédrale,. Saint-Boniface, Manitoba, R2H 0H7

The Canadian Foodgrains Bank is a partnership of Canadian church-based agencies working to end hunger in developing countries. The Foodgrains Bank collects grain and cash donations. www.foodgrainsbank.ca . P. O. Box 767, 400-393 Portage Ave, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3C 2L4.

Canadian Lutheran World Relief: 204-694-5602 or toll-free 1-800-661-2597, online at www.clwr.org/donate or by cheque made payable to CLWR mailed to CLWR, 302-393 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg, MB R3B 3H6
 

Missing family or friends

Foreign Affairs: Canadians seeking emergency consular assistance in the area should contact the Emergency Operations Centre or call 613-996-8885 collect. The Operations Centre of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Friends and relatives in Canada seeking information on Canadian citizens believed to be in the affected area should contact Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada at 1-800-387-3124.

Family News Network of the International Committee of the Red Cross: This site is designed to enable persons in Haiti and abroad to register the names of relatives with whom they are striving to restore contact. It is designed for missing persons in Haiti that are not Canadian citizens.

If persons seeking to restore contact with loved ones don’t have access to a computer or need help registering online they should contact Red Cross Restoring Family Links in Manitoba at 982-7340 for assistance.