Air Asia & UNICEF Collaborate To Raise Funds For Haiti

AirAsia and the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) plans to raise RM438 million (USD128 million) for children and families in Haiti. AirAsia’s group chief executive officer, Tony Fernandes, was reported to have said that the company has a dedicated link on its website to allow guests to contribute to the Haiti Earthquake Children’s Appeal 2010 fund. Read more

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Haiti: Is Your Money Going Where It’s Supposed To?

The amount of money heading to (or already in) Haiti is staggering. Just take a look at the Huffington Post’s list of corporate donations from the USA! In fact, Reuters reported that the USA plans to give more to Haiti than to the tsunami disaster victims, amounting to a cool USD519 mill on 27 Jan 2010. In Malaysia, L’Oreal, Air Asia and a few other corporations and nonprofits, notably Mercy Malaysia, have gone all out to help out with collecting donations for the disaster-stricken country. Read more

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L’Oreal Does Its Part To Help Haiti Earthquake Victims

L’Oreal Malaysia recently began a fundraising drive for the Haiti earthquake victims. The campaign, themed Rebuilding Lives in Haiti, was organised by the Humanitarian Organisation Islamic Relief Malaysia (IRM), with support from the Malaysia National News Agency (Bernama) and 21 other corporate partners. Read more

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Motorola Provides More Than USD2 Mill In Aid Of Haiti

Motorola, the Motorola Foundation and Motorola employees have provided more than USD2 million in cash and in-kind products to support earthquake relief efforts in Haiti. Read more

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Mercy Malaysia launches website for Haiti

Mercy Malaysia launched a website recently to collect donations in aid of Haiti’s recent earthquake victims. The www.malaysiaforhaiti.org website provides updates from Haiti, by way of collaboration with Merlin, a UK charitable organisation, which is currently in Haiti for relief work. Read more

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The Haiti crisis: INSEAD faculty tracks humanitarian response

Courtesy of INSEAD Knowledge

INSEAD Professor Luk Van Wassenhove, head of INSEAD’s Social Innovation Centre, and Programme Director Rolando Tomasini, have been monitoring the crisis in Haiti since the 7.1 earthquake struck, including being in touch with relevant NGOs, companies and governments, who are providing aid and support to the victims and the country. Read more

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Lanxess Supports Haiti Relief Efforts

Lanxess is supporting relief efforts in the aftermath of the earthquake tragedy in Haiti. The specialty chemicals company has donated USD200,000 to supply more than four million chemical water treatment tablets. The tablets are used in water purification systems and can provide about 76 million liters of clean water for at least 20,000 Haitian families. Read more

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