During this horrible time for the people of Haiti, it is easy to want to reach out and help the people impacted by this crisis. While this is a great thing, just make sure that the group you are donating to is a legitimate one.
As sad as it might be, scam artists take advantage of situations such as the one in Haiti to fill their own pockets. Luckily several sites have gathered together the legitimate places where one can donate to aid in the relief of the victims. The sites are:
- CNN Impact
- FoxNews How to Help
- Google crisis response page
- Huffington Post’s How You Can Help
- NPR’s How to Help
- PBS Newshour’s Haiti Relief Effort
Any resource listed on these pages is legitimate and 100% trustworthy. Do NOT trust any charities that email you, run ads on sites, text you out of the blue and so on. While some of them may be on the up and up, you can’t take the risk. Please make sure that whomever you decide to donate through is who they say they are, and that the money is going where they claim it is.
