GEORGIA DRIVE TO RELIEVE HAITI’S HOMELESS

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
(Free-Press-Release.com) March 3, 2010 -- Donations For Haiti, a team of Atlanta volunteers founded as a collection wing for The Haitian Alliance, together with U-Haul Trucks, City Storage and Executive Courier, has created a month-long campaign for supplies to relieve the needs of the approximately 1.5 million Haitian homeless.

“People all over the world are working as hard as they can to ward off starvation, disease and desperation in and around Port au Price,” says David Baumgarten, Donations For Haiti’s founder. “However, with the magnitude of such devastation, nothing can happen fast enough.”

“We have people, trucks, a sorting hub, containers, shipping, a team on the ground to safely distribute in Haiti and passionate Georgians wanting to continue giving,” says Steve Canon, Donations For Haiti’s event coordinator. “We estimate that we can clothe over one hundred thousand of Haiti’s homeless with only a dozen high-traffic parking lots over a weekend.”

Slated for the 17th and 18th of April, Georgians will have the opportunity to bring their donations to a dozen U-Haul trucks parked at 12 locations around Atlanta.

Only in its first month, Donations for Haiti has collected more than two full container loads of donations from thousands of generous Georgians, arranged four tons of medical supplies at the request of the Clinton Foundation, and coordinated donations from schools, universities, corporations and churches all around the state.