The Joint Task Force combines the strengths of the nation’s First and Largest Latin Greek Organizations, Lambda Theta Alpha, Latin Sorority Inc., the Pave the Way Foundation, the Lambda Theta Phi Foundation and Lambda Theta Phi, Latin Fraternity Inc., to assist those that were affected by the 7.0 magnitude earthquake that occurred in Haiti on January 12, 2010.
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Dear friends, supporters and human aid activist,
First of all we would like to take all those who have helped or been in any way part of our on going effort to assist the victims of the Haitian Earthquake. Among those we would like to thank Lambda Theta Phi Latin Fraternity Inc, Senator Robert Menendez, Union [...]
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Doctors and aid workers are running dangerously low of supplies in Haiti’s capital and in the countryside, complicating efforts to treat 200,000 people in need of post-surgery care following the earthquake and increasing the potential of many more deaths due to infection and disease.
As days turn to weeks, doctors struggling to keep [...]
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By Jessica Ravitz, CNN
January 27, 2010 11:01 a.m. EST
(CNN) — There’s nothing like images of infants and children in distress to make outsiders yearn to help, which is why the unfolding story of Haiti’s orphans — the most helpless of earthquake victims — has kept people riveted.
But what can be done and what should be [...]
First shipment sent to Haiti: Milk for the children
UPDATE: January 25, 2010
The Joint Task Force prepared and sent it’s first shipment of relief supplies to Haiti this Sunday, January 24, 2010. The shipment comprised of over 700 containers of milk, medical supplies and other necessities destined to the infants and children who fell victim to [...]
Update: Friday, January 22, 2010 @ 2:27 PM
Agustin “Gus” Garcia, Lambda Theta Phi Founding Father and Lambda Theta Phi Foundation Chairman, submits a preliminary report on needs of the victims in Haiti.
“We have hundreds of infants coming into to these medical checkpoints that haven’t eaten in days. We are in desperate need of non-perishable milk [...]
Washington (CNN) — One of two piers at the port serving the Haitian capital has reopened, and a gravel road was laid off of it, clearing a major route for aid to come into the city, officials said.
A Dutch Navy ship, the Pelikaan, unloaded 90 tons of humanitarian aid Thursday morning. Two other ships previously [...]
January 15, 2010
NEWARK – U.S. Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ), chairman of the Foreign Relations subcommittee on foreign assistance, today received a phone briefing from USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah on the assistance efforts in the aftermath of the Haiti earthquake. Menendez said that the U.S. is clearly acting robustly, decisively and in a leadership capacity, but [...]
(CNN) — As delivery of aid to Haiti is hampered by damaged ports and an overwhelmed airport, another conduit into the earthquake-ravaged nation — its border with the Dominican Republic — has become a challenging crossing itself, a United Nations situation report says.
The 200 miles from the Dominican capital of Santo Domingo to the Haitian [...]