Josh Groban Foundation & Haiti Relief

You are truly talented,and care about everyone-
Thank GOD,for people like you.

I have revised and added material to what I wrote earlier, and I hope everyone will read it again. Thank you.

Every little bit helps no matter how big or small..$$$ have been made by our cutomers in our store..Our staff help make it happen..Have donated to Red Cross I know its not much but we try our best to help..Our love goes out to the people there..
Much love to you Always Josh..

Just thought I would take a few seconds to plug my Uncle's Mission.. called Double Harvest
It is a Faith based Mission started by my uncles parents.. and is now being run by my Uncle and his family This mission has been sutained and run on The family's own money for 20 years.. they built a hopsital, a school, a cafeteria, farming land and a tilapia farm.. this was built to help the Haitian people learn how to properly sustain themselves..
Due to the recent Earthquakes in Haiti.. it has been turned into a large Triage area.. treating Hundreds of patients.. and feeding thousands of people.. and are due to get an influx of more people as th eHaitian goverment is moving 400,000 people to the foothills of the mission.
My Uncle is there now and has been there since the Earthquake happened. They just received a large gas supply that should run the generators for the entire month of february.. if you want to get real updates, and see photos of the work they are doing.. please join there facebook page http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1599965057&ref=ts#/pages/Oberlin-...
here is the link to their website as well.. www.doubleharvest.org
There have been some news stories done on this charity, as well as Mike Wallace of Nascar will be painting his car with the double harvest logo during the Daytona 500
This is a 100% legitamate Charity and 100% of any donations goes dierctly to the mission..

Consider it done Josh! myself and my roommate just donated to the Red Cross Haiti fund. Thank you for bring this up and motivating others to help where they can.

God Bless you and those that are all involved in the Haiti support!

Cherîe Hebert
Brockville, Canada

We all can do more. Donating is important but it is not all.

LOVE IS THE KEY!

Only Love will heal our world. Give love, take love, BE LOVE.

Love changes everything...

lots of love and hugs to all wonderful, loving people here...

I just donated to the Red Cross. I will be watching for other ways to help. I wish I had the freedom to go there and help myself.

This week, the humanitarian disaster in Haiti is not as much in the news as it was last week - the news stations have very short attention spans. Many people in Haiti, however, still have not received medical care. Many are living from one bottle of water to whenever they can locate another one. The need in Haiti will go on for a long time. I hope everyone who has given - and those who have not yet given - will consider donating on a weekly or monthly basis. We can help reduce the suffering that is going on in Haiti. This country - Haiti - CAN change and become more prosperous. The Haitian people and culture are amazing, and, with the right kind of assistance, they will begin to thrive. But the disaster in Haiti reflects perilous circumstances larger than Haiti.

There is a huge inequity in material resources among countries worldwide, and a desperate need for humanitarian aid in many places around the globe. We who have so much should share more of our wealth on a continuing basis and use our influence to try to improve things, not just in Haiti but throughout the world. Many organizations and programs are trying to make things more equitable in the world and trying to develop the less prosperous areas of the world without relying on a divisive political ideology but through education and helping people to develop where they live. We can do a lot more to help improve lives before humanitarian disasters occur.

I hope we never again have to witness such an appalling tragedy as the Haitian people trying to cope with a natural disaster from a weak position of a nearly non-existent infrastructure and a history of aching poverty. The shame of the suffering belongs to all of us - this is our world, and these are our neighbors. Through substantial aid programs coupled with appropriate controls and accountability, we should strive harder and with more commitment to build a world that we are all happy to live in, rather than a world where relatively few people live well while the majority live in misery, their lives in constant peril. We should strive to build a world where we can work together to successfully rise to the challenge of a natural disaster rather than watch ineffectually, with tears in our eyes and our hearts broken at all the lives so needlessly lost and all the people - children - so permanently maimed.

Despite the current outpouring of compassionate aid from so many countries and individuals, I believe we can do far better than all this help after the fact. What we are looking at in Haiti is the result of long years of our generally ignoring Haiti combined with our toleration and even support of corrupt regimes that siphon off the international aid, leaving the intended recipients no better off combined with the callous exploitation of the Haitian labor force by Disney and by companies making products for K-Mart, J.C. Penney, and Wal-mart.* This kind of policy needs to stop now.

Such deplorable conditions as Haiti had even before this earthquake do not have to exist, and they exist in many countries. For conditions to change, however, we must all change. We must pay better and more active attention to our poorer neighbors. We must commit our hearts. We must demand that our leadership share, reflect, and represent our compassionate commitment so that international policies and international corporate labor laws and practices change. All people and all nations - must consciously choose whether our collective hearts will be full of stones or full of love and compassion. I think we have seen what kind of world we get with stones.

* http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/43a/293.html
* http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/43a/294.html
* http://www.albionmonitor.com/1-31-96/haitilabor.html

I also support doctors without borders. They lost everything. They lost all their supplies. They even lost their building, but they're still there helping people.

Dear friend,
I`m sure, your meditation has helped these eldered people. I do
the same, by sending love, peace and light to the world, every
day.

My usual organization is "Plan International", where I support
a little girl in Zimbabwe. She`s my godchild since five years.
I think "Doctors Without Borders" do a very hard work in Haiti
and they were so badly needed there.

I hope, that the hard times for these desperate people will
soon be over and that they will not be forgotten again.

lots of love to you...

Thanks, Brightstar. Today, I did a meditation where I closed my eyes for over an hour and put my attention on those abandoned elderly, and I sat with them and gave them food and water and cleaned them up and talked with them. This was my vision, and I hope it helped them.

I wasn't sure which group to donate to, and I had already donated to World Vision, my usual organization, but decided to donate to Doctors Without Borders because I saw a news video today of one of the doctors crying because, as he said, it was so awful. I guess they have been working around the clock with no sleep, and they were doing surgery without anesthesia or proper sanitation, and the infections people have are horrific. Things are so unsanitary and the temperature is so hot that even a small untreated cut can become life-threatening. And some of the people have compound fractures or traumatic amputations that haven't had any treatment since the actual quake. The people who are there helping - all the aid workers and the doctors and medical and military personnel - are true heroes. Thanks for the hug - I needed it. Hugs back to you and to all those in Haiti.

This is one of the saddest reports I have read coming out of Haiti. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/cb_haiti_waiting_to_die

Surely something can be done, but, other than hurrying the aid as fast as humanly possible, I can think of nothing. With the large crowd there, even a helicopter landing to evacuate these elderly people would cause a riot. This is brutal, and I cannot stop crying over it. It's made all the more poignant because my own elderly mother died last October and she grew quite frail and needed so much care 24 hours a day for weeks, and she had the very best of care which all elderly people - in fact, of course, all people - deserve. People are so fragile really. I wish these poor elderly people had the care they need and could be surrounded by gentle people. What on earth can we do?

I donated to Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres). Please donate as much as you can and encourage others to donate. Remember the snowball effect - if you have donated all you can, talk to others and use your influence to encourage further donations. Thank you.

Thank you for writing this. You are so kind.

Dear Josh and Fellow Members of FOJG,
These are difficult times for the people of Haiti and for all people of sensibility worldwide. I know that the tears I have shed as I have watched the news stories roll out of Haiti are reflected in the eyes and on the faces of people all over the globe. We are all deeply aware of the suffering caused by this disaster, suffering which may yet intensify as the days pass, suffering which will need to be addressed for a long time to come. We will not in a few days simply forget what has happened or what is still going on. I know that you will be there to help as best you can. We all know Josh and his charity organization will be there to help. Over the next while, we can work together to develop creative strategies for soothing the anguish of the Haitian people and the people from other countries who work there. As an educator with a commitment to worldwide education, I have encouraged my students to donate to Haitian relief - and stir others to donate. In the coming weeks, I will ask my college to adopt the The State University of Haiti (Université d'État d'Haïti in French or UEH), or the Quisqueya University or the Université des Caraïbes as our special project - in order to give the students at my college a specific personal focus to aim for. Obviously, everything must be rebuilt, so our first focus project may indeed be to fund scholarships so that the young people who were depending on attending college in Haiti might instead attend college in other countries including the U.S. and Canada. We can all do something, organize something, pool our resources, create a better world, and be the better people for it. When I took my training as a hospice counselor a number of years ago, we had a saying - "God couldn't come, so He sent me." And I think now is a time to adopt that attitude and that commitment with regard to Haiti. Let us all pick up this burden and help the people of Haiti to carry it. The disaster in Haiti is the teacher of us all. Starting in Haiti, we and our children will expand the way we think of and relate to the world. Thank you to all of you. I know you will help.

Thanks Josh for giving to the relief fund from your foundation and for posting the links for us to contribute. You're such a caring person who inspires others. Always doing the best you can to help. May God bless you always...

My hubby and I donated to Doctors Without Borders (through Canada, for Peru it doesn't work). I translated your message to Spanish and posted it in my website, Josh Groban Peru, so more people get the links to donate.

Keeping all who are suffering in Haiti in our prayers, may God confort them in this terrible situation.

Patricia

I don't even know how to express the way I feel. You have inspired me to set some of my own needs aside for now so that I can give to the people in Haiti. Josh, thank you for being you. I pray that more will follow your example and open their hearts to those less fortunate. Prayers for the survivors in Haiti that God will protect them and give them peace, understanding and perseverance to get through this tragedy. God bless you always...

For the Doctos Without Borders link too...
Great organization...I am checking to see if I can go...

First a big thank to you, Joshua, angel without wings!!

I have donated some money, but I think it`s not enough.
The system has to change because it doesn`t work. There`s too
much suffering for too long in our world.
I know, there are many different nations but - we`re all human.
We all have hopes and dreams and we all want to be loved. We
should try to build a better world.
My vision is a world

- where we all can live in peace, love and freedom and never again
in fear and poverty.
- where we share everything
- where we are happy - every one of us
- where we respect our beautiful "MOTHER EARTH"
- where man have given up all those senseless wars...

Maybe I`m a dreamer but - only dreamers will reach the stars and
I hope for a few more somewhere out there. We can do it, with
courage, strength and wisdom and with unconditional love.
God bless you.

"Let our light shine so bright
let our love win the fight
never give up the faith in our strength.
From heart to heart send a sign
across the earth, through space and time
until we all are united and free........

lots of love
to all the wonderful people here....

Dear Josh: I had no doubt that you would be helping in any way that you could. As I have said many times, you are a gift from God.

Thank you.

Kate

To our dear Josh,

It is to your credit that your thoughtfulness, true compassion and generosity for others shows your heartfelt actions of donating through your own foundation, plus providing us with the information on charitable organization websites for further donations to the devastated Haiti.

We all help in our own ways. Some grand as with your foundation combined with smaller individual donation all add up to helping those in need.

Thank you, Josh! You are magnificent the way that you immediately stepped up to help Haiti and are commended for your heartfelt actions!
jr

I would like to leave a link to Unicef.

I respect them very much.

https://secure.unicefusa.org/site/Donation2?df_id=6680&6680.donation=form1