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MADRE September 17, 2008 7:05 AM


MADRE

HAITI AND CUBA EMERGENCY MOBILIZATION ALERT                  DONATE NOW
 

In Haiti, four back-to-back storms have caused severe flooding, destroying farmland and crops.Young Haitian boy Prices had skyrocketed in Haiti even before the storms.  Bananas are $7 a bunch and on the rise. And the cost of rice, a food staple, has escalated by 150% and is out of reach. 

In Cuba, over 200,000 families have been displaced by three back-to-back storms. The US embargo prevents Cubans from accessing basic medicines and medical supplies, causing serious hardship for Cubans even when there are no extraordinary circumstances. After three hard-hitting storms, the Cuban government's emergency response is badly compromised without the medicines that people so desperately need.

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 September 17, 2008 7:09 AM

Your help is urgently needed.

Flooding and mudslides have destroyed roads and bridges, cutting relief workers off from people in desperate need of aid: food in Haiti and medicine in Cuba. 

But MADRE is helping.

Our locally-based partners, KOFAVIV, Zanmi Lasante, and the Cuban Red Cross, are already on the scene and have launched into action. The systems are in place to procure and deliver emergency supplies.

Join this effort today.

Your support is critical. Please give generously to this emergency response effort. Donate now.

The women and children in Haiti and Cuba need our help. I'm counting on you to be with us.

Thank you,

Vivian Stromberg, Executive Director

Vivian Stromberg
Executive Director

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 September 17, 2008 7:11 AM

P.S. - We will not forsake the women of Haiti and Cuba. We will send as much emergency aid as you will help us provide, and after the crisis, we will still be there to help them rebuild their lives.

Donate today.


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MADRE is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization

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 September 17, 2008 7:15 AM

Do you know that the word madre is both Spanish and Italian for "mother"? If that's so what is the Spanish and Italian for "father"? If you said padre then you guessed correctly.  [ send green star]
 
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