maybe you want to get inolved with this?

The Swiss have a donation system when there are disasters called "la Chaine du Bonheur " which you can donate money to. You could probably go to any post office & ask for a pink slip to make a donation, they are used to this.

The following take donations

Medecins Sans Frontieres

International Red Cross

World Food Programme

oops missed one off www.swiss-solidarity.org this is featured on WRS.

Hello Jawahara,

You can donate to a little organisation too. I know one who works in the provinces with the children and the office is here in Geneva. You can contact them at: [email protected] or 022 30196 37. www.soscrisdenfants.org

Hello everyone!

Actually, another glocals member and I will be organising an event for Haiti next Wednesday 20th January in the evening - venue to be announced by the end of the day.

Not only will a slideshow of Haiti be shown, music played, but we will be bringing payment slips from La Chaine du Bonheur and Médecins Sans Frontières with us for those who wish to contribute...

So if you can wait till then - we will be happy to have you!

Wisdom

Here is a link to many charities working in Haiti and their online donation sites.  Hope this helps.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/12/haiti-earthquake-relief-h_n_421014.html

Also from a blog site, a little bit of information that I found interesting:

http://www.charitynavigator.org/

4 star ratings (in ascending order of top executive compensation):

$71,900 / Haitian Health Foundation
$74,127 / Partners in Health
$75,788 / Grassroots International
$115,640 / Doctors Without Borders
$146,019 / Operation USA
$176,667 / Action Against Hunger
$183,307 / Episcopal Relief & Development
$190,223 / Food for the Hungry
$215,922 / World Concern (CRISTA Ministries)
$275,000 / Americares
$280,782 / Direct Relief
$359,816 / Save the Children
$361,250 / Unicef
$367,904 / America
$379,346 / Rescue Committee
$397,000 / CARE

3 star ratings (in ascending order of top executive compensation):

$218,750 / American Refugee Committee Int'l.
$219,320 / Plan USA
$239,773 / Mercy Corps
$286,581 / International Medical Corps
$565,000 / American Red Cross

Not rated at this site:

Catholic Relief Services
Friends of the Orphans
Handicap International
Jewish Federations of North America
Merlin USA
NetHope
Orphans International America
The Salvation Army
Yele Haiti

Wow! Thanks for all the great ideas guys. And, good luck Wisdom, for the fundraiser. I'd like to donate as soon as I can and there seem to be a lot of great opportunities to do that in Geneva.

Jawahara