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One of the best ways for you to help support international relief efforts is to give through one of the organizations below. All of these organizations are providing on-the-ground services in Haiti during these critical hours and days of immediate recovery.

ActionAid has been in Haiti since 1996, working with over 30,000 people. They are on the ground and urgently working to help save lives in the short term, while also looking to provide assistance to Haitians to rebuild their lives.

AmeriCares has been providing humanitarian aid to Haiti since 1984 and they are already working with partners on the ground to deliver humanitarian aid and disaster relief. AmeriCares has started assembling a $3.2 million airlift of medicines, hospital supplies and other critical medical aid.

Oxfam has had a sustained presence in Haiti and the 200 staffers currently stationed in the country, including a highly trained emergency response team of 15, are rushing to meet the basic needs of people who may have lost everything.

PlanUSA as released $100,000 of emergency funds and is on the ground to help deal with the immediate aftermath of the devastating earthquake that hit Haiti yesterday evening.

UNICEF's response, coordinated with other UN agencies and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent, is aimed at children and women, who are the most vulnerable in times of crisis. Children under 18 make up nearly 50 percent of Haiti’s 10 million population.

CARE is deploying additional emergency team members to the devastated city of Port-au-Prince in Haiti. CARE has also launched an international appeal for funds for Haiti that will support immediate emergency operations. CARE plans to start food distribution using stocks of high-protein biscuits from its warehouses in Haiti. CARE is coordinating with other UN agencies and aid organizations to assess damage and on-the-ground needs.

Mercy Corps has experience responding to previous earthquakes, most recently in Padang, Indonesia last September, and they are currently deploying staff to Haiti.

Partners in Health reports that “Over the past 18 hours, PIH staff in Boston and Haiti have been working to collect as much information as possible about the conditions on the ground, the relief efforts taking shape, and all relevant logistics issues in order to respond efficiently and effectively to the most urgent needs in the field.  At the moment, PIH’s Chief Medical Officer is on her way to Haiti, where she will meet with Zanmi Lasante leadership and head physicians, who are already working to ensure PIH’s coordinated relief efforts leveraging the skills of more than 120 doctors and nearly 500 nurses and nursing assistants who work at Zanmi Lasante’s sites.”

SOS Children's Villages, since 1979, has provided nurturing families, education, and medical care to orphaned and abandoned children in Haiti. Now that disaster has struck, the organizations is multiplying their efforts to provide relief to thousands of children and families in need.

A senior staff member of Doctors Without Borders reports, “The situation is chaotic, I visited five medical centers, including a major hospital, and most of them were not functioning." Doctors Without Borders is currently deploying emergency medical care for Haitians affected by the disaster.

American Jewish World Service’s President Ruth Messinger writes on Change.org about her reaction to the devastation in Haiti. Help support AJWS’s work.

Change.org will continue to update this list over the coming days as new contacts come in. Our hearts go out to all of those affected by this devastating natural disaster.