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Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief was a charity telethon held on January 22, 2010, from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (January 23, 2010 from 1 a.m. to 3 a.m. UTC). The telethon was the most widely distributed telethon in history. [ 3 ]
The 2010 Haiti earthquake was a catastrophic magnitude 7.0 M w earthquake that ... Haiti's ambassador to the United States, [120] and his nephew, singer Wyclef Jean ...
Yéle Haiti was founded as a charitable organization by Haitian musician and rapper Wyclef Jean. Born in Haiti and immigrating with his family to the United States at age nine, Jean grew up in northern New Jersey and embarked on a successful career in music, first as a member of Fugees and then as a Grammy-winning solo artist. All the while, he ...
An Associated Press report in 2010 found that less than 1 cent of each dollar the U.S. gave for Haiti’s earthquake relief was actually going to the country in the form of cash to the government.
The death toll from a 7.2-magnitude earthquake in Haiti climbed to 1,297 on Sunday, a day after the powerful temblor turned thousands of structures into rubble and set off franctic rescue efforts ...
Named after the biblical scholar John Wycliffe, [13] Wyclef Jean was born in Croix-des-Bouquets, Haiti [2] on October 17, 1969. [14] At nine years old, he emigrated with his family to Brooklyn, New York City, and ultimately settled in East Orange and Newark, New Jersey.
A magnitude 5.5 earthquake struck Haiti’s southwest region early Tuesday morning, destroying homes and creating panic in the country’s Grand’Anse region, where heavy rains over the weekend ...
CEO Bill Downe stated, "The devastation in Haiti is massive, and all of us at BMO are deeply saddened by the news." The bank also appealed to its 36,000 employees to make donations. It waived fees on fund transfers to agencies or individuals in Haiti. [30] [34] The Bank of Nova Scotia donated $250,000 to the Canadian Red Cross. [30] [33] [35]