Here are a few ways to help this massive rescue/support operation:
? You can make an automatic $10 donation to the Red Cross by texting "HAITI" to 90999. The money will be charged directly to your cell phone bill and will go to an organization which, since its founding in 1881, has been one of the foremost emergency response organizations. You can also contribute to the Red Cross and read about further ways to help through their website -- www.redcross.org.
? Catholic Relief Services, with a track record of rushing humanitarian relief to survivors within hours of man-made and natural disasters around the world, has already pledged $5 million to efforts in Haiti ad with our help can facilitate much more -- www.crs.org.
? Doctors Without Borders provides aid in nearly 60 countries to people whose survival is threatened by violence, neglect, or catastrophe, primarily due to armed conflict, epidemics, malnutrition, exclusion from health care, or natural disasters. They have already established emergency clinics in Haiti -- www.doctorswithoutborders.org.
? Samaritan's Purse, founded by Franklin Graham, is a nondenominational evangelical Christian relief organization providing spiritual and physical aid to hurting people around the world. http://www.samaritanspurse.org.
I want to thank each of you who are able to take a few minutes from your busy schedules to find a way to help. Your assistance may very well help save a life or enable a family to reconnect in the midst of a terrible human tragedy. And tonight, we should all say a prayer for those who lost their lives in this tragedy and those who remain in Haiti fighting for their survival.