The Hunger Site and GreaterGood.org Support Partners in Healths Haitian Rescue Work
Summary
Seattle, WA, January 17, 2010 --( GreaterGood.org, in partnership with The Hunger Site, selected Partners in Health for this donation because the group has a long history of extraordinary service to the Haitian people and is already operating medical facilities there.Despite personal losses from the earthquake, PIH staff were among the first emergency responders on the scene and have continued to work around the clock to aid survivors while awaiting the arrival of volunteer medical groups and additional supplies."With functioning medical facilities a little over two hours outside of Port-au-Prince, PIH began receiving injured from the city and surrounding areas shortly after the earthquake struck.“Partners in Health provides the best quality of care that Ive witnessed in the third world.We had three staff members visit their Haitian hospital complex last year,” said Tim Kunin, CEO of The Hunger Site and GreaterGood Network.The Hunger Site’s independent nonprofit partner, GreaterGood.org, has seen a record number of online donations through the Gifts That Give More™ program in response to this crisis, outstripping previous records of more than $70,000 for the Burmese floods in 2008 raised over 30 days and nearly $80,000 for the Australian wildfires in 2009 during a similar time period.As with all disaster relief donations, GreaterGood.org committed to making payments each week to the group working in the country during the crisis.100% of the money raised from the button’s sponsoring advertisers goes to fund food for the hungry through The Hunger Site’s current charity partners: Feeding America, Mercy Corps, and Millennium Promise (since August 2009).