RANDY ECONOMY: MY WORLD: Crisis in Haiti: Two Trusted Catholic Chairties worth supporting include the "Catholic Relief Society" and "Fonkoze"

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Crisis in Haiti: Two Trusted Catholic Chairties worth supporting include the "Catholic Relief Society" and "Fonkoze"

BREAKING NEWS:
4:06 p.m.
Port-Au-Prince, Haiti

By: Randy Economy
I have been asked to recommend a couple of EFFECTIVE and TRUSTED CHARITIES to support to help the victims of the Haitian earthquake, around 24 hours ago.

Reports are coming in that hundreds of thousands may have perished in the earthquake that ravaged Haiti last night, including the Catholic Archbishop of Port-au-Prince. Untold numbers of survivors lack food, water, shelter, and medical care. Haiti needs our assistance immediately. More than 80% of all Haitians belong to the Catholic faith. These two charities are located in Haiti and work miracles each and everyday.

So, to help support the Haitian people, I am suggesting that you support and donate to two trusted relief and development organizations currently working in Haiti.

Catholic Relief Services has a long and successful track record of offering humanitarian support in the immediate aftermath of natural disasters. Catholic Relief Services has established a Haitian earthquake relief fund and is accepting donations here.

Catholic Relief Services staff in Haiti is responding immediately to the earthquake that rocked Port -au- Prince, the capital of Haiti. Tuesday night the agency made an immediate commitment of $ 5 million for emergency supplies.

In a brief phone conversation before communication was lost, CRS Country Representative Karel Zelenka described Port -au- Prince as "covered with a plume of dust from damaged buildings."

The second organization is the Haitian-based development group Fonkoze. Fonkoze is a well-respected organization that serves the poor of Haiti by offering economic development grants. This work will be critical as Haiti rebuilds. You can donate to Fonkoze here.

This is from Fonkoze:

"We have limited information but here is what we know. Anne Hastings and all of her head office staff are alive, and we have no reports of any staff being killed outside of Port au Prince at this time. However, we have heard that some family members of Fonkoze staff have been killed. We do not have any reliable information on borrowers and their family members, but we imagine that there has been some loss of life, injuries and homes and businesses being destroyed. "

So give today. Even if its only $5 or $10....every little bit helps!

My thoughts and prayers are with the people of Haiti in their time of need.
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You may know me from my role as the Senior Advisor and Official Media Spokesman for the Recall Gavin Newsom campaign that established a worldwide blitz of interviews. I conducted more than 2,200 media interviews on behalf of “The People’s Recall” during a 10-month period from November 2020 to September 2021. The iconic magazine Mother Jones in a dramatic feature article called me “A ‘Superhero Pirate’ Radio Host, (and) Gavin Newsom’s Strangest—and Most Dangerous—Threat. Meet Randy Economy, the man behind the effort to recall California’s governor.” I appeared on more than 330 media outlets around the world in my capacity with RecallGavin2020. Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, Newsmax, NBC Nightly News, ABC News, as well as the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Politico, and dozens of other media outlets aired featured reports on my work on behalf of “The People’s Recall.” I am and will always consider myself to be a journalist. Sometimes I think I bleed ink. My talents as an Investigative Journalists in California earned me FIVE top awards from the prestigious Los Angeles Press Club in 2013, 2014, and 2016. I am tenacious. My reporting over the years has led to the prosecution of several elected officials in California. While working for a tiny community newspaper in Southeast Los Angeles County, I worked doggedly to expose the biggest public corruption case in Los Angeles County history when I unearthed a massive pay to play scheme inside the Assessor’s Office that led to the arrest of then Assessor John R. Noguez and four others. However, politics has been in my DNA since I was a child. I have worked on more than 300 political campaigns as a consultant and advisor since 1982 for candidates from all sides of the political spectrum including Democrats and Republicans, and even Libertarians. I am also a small business owner, serving as the President and CEO of Hot Water Studio & Production, LLC. My company works with media outlets across the state, nation, and world exposing public corruption via several new media platforms. I have also overcome personal challenges. I am legally blind with zero vision in my right eye and only 40 percent vision remaining in my left eye. I sometimes wear an eyepatch due to my failed vision. (Hence the nickname of “America’s Political Pirate.”