As relief and recovery work continue in Haiti – perhaps made even more trying as organizations stretch their resources to respond to the Chilean earthquake, as well – reading personal accounts from on-the-ground aid workers is uplifting.
: Corporate Citizenship Center
As the BCLC team continues to gather information about the Chilean earthquake, the words “not again” keep repeating themselves.
Accurate information is often hard to come by in disaster situations. This is why BCLC recently asked CHF International, a nonprofit international development organization with operations in Haiti long before the earthquake hit, to share first-hand perspective about the true progress in Haiti.
This afternoon CNNmoney.com reported that 351 businesses have contributed $146.8 million to the Haitian earthquake response.
The business response to Haiti has been extraordinary – in fact, it ranks as the private sector’s third-most generous outpouring of aid following a natural disaster.
During today’s forum in New Orleans on Next Steps for Gulf Coast Recovery and Resiliency we were treated to a bus tour of the city.
This morning, Major George Polarek, who recently returned from Haiti, offered the audience at BCLC’s forum on National Resiliency and Gulf Coast Recovery several on-the-ground insights on earthquake
At the time of this writing, the business community has already raised over $106 million in the span of less than ten days in response to the earthquake in Haiti. This does not include the role the networks