Awareness / Haiti
From Artists for Peace and Justice:
“As you undoubtedly already know, a devastating 7.0 earthquake has struck Haiti. Its epicenter was just 10 miles outside Port-au-Prince, where our friend, doctor, and community organizer Father Rick Frechette runs two pediatric hospitls, street schools in the slums, an abandoned children’s home and so much more. We’ve spoken to him and the news is terrible. Walls have tumbled like cards at this beautiful new children’s hospital. Their old hospital, still functioning, has collapsed completely. The orphanage has also sustained considerable damage, but no lives were lost there. We don’t know about any of the street schools we sponsor. The sky has been described as filled with dust from the thousands of collapsed homes. Preliminary estimates are already placing the death toll at over 10,000.
If you are asking yourself what you can do, they desperately need emergency cash- any amount. Get it to us, and we will get a hundred percent of it into the hands of Father Rick and his team, to help dig people out of the collapsed hospitals and schools, buy emergency medicine, supply badly needed water and food, help fly in doctors for the wounded children, and so much more.”
OBEY AWARENESS and Artists for Peace and Justice have come together to support relief efforts in Haiti. Studio Number One’s Cleon Peterson, Casey Ryder and Shepard Fairey created an iconic Haiti image from a photograph by Tao Ruspoll. The profits generated from the sale of this product go directly to the Haiti relief effort led by Artists for Peace and Justice. To learn more about this cause, click on the Artists for Peace and Justice link to spend some time on their website.
