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Port-au-Prince.– Donations via text message have raised US$5 million for the American Red Cross's Haiti relief efforts as of noon Thursday. Soon after a 7.0-magnitude quake struck near capital city Port-au-Prince late Tuesday, the Red Cross mobilized fundraising efforts via social networking site Twitter.

Before midnight, @RedCross tweeted: "You can text "HAITI" to 90999 to donate $10 to Red Cross relief efforts in #haiti." And so far 500,000 customers have donated through all wireless networks including AT&T, Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile.

According to Verizon Wireless spokesman Jeffrey Nelson, these are donors who are typically the hardest to reach: young people. "They're reacting to something that affects them and realizing their few dollars can make a difference. Texting has opened up a whole new world for philanthropy."

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Written by: Blutarsky This user is banned, 15 Jan 2010 11:58 AM
From: Dominican Republic, No Spin Zone
this is the future
Written by: time2rize, 15 Jan 2010 12:24 PM
From: Dominican Republic
lets just hope that every dime donated from every country gets actually utilized for rebuilding PAP.
Written by: TanBellaMami This user is banned, 15 Jan 2010 1:33 PM
From: Dominican Republic, Cabarete

My message is in this link http://www.everythinghaitian.com/....gDetail.aspx?BID=183&PID=2146 to the American government. I am a two times OIF veteran soldier who is still in the United States Army Reserves. I have given my service to the United States and now my home country is in terrible distress I am watching how time is being wasted on demagogueries by not even providing them with basic food and water so they can endure and shelter the storm.
Written by: Yucahu, 15 Jan 2010 4:20 PM
From: United States, Miami
I can't believe Metro PCS won't allow people to participate in the donation process. It should be called Metro Piece of $#@%!
Written by: HiHater, 15 Jan 2010 5:07 PM
From: United States, Brooklyn, NY
That is already half of what the UN gave. I expected more from the UN. Although the World Bank was quick to loan a few hundreds of millions.

More is needed!
Written by: hellborn25, 15 Jan 2010 6:01 PM
From: United States, words of wisdom from the nutcracker
thats cool but haiti will need alot more money then that
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