There are many ways to help on a local level, below you will find some local and national opportunities for giving. If you are sponsoring an event or know of another local opportunity to help, please let us know.

Local Opportunities:

• Columbia High School student organizations are banding together to collect donations for Partners In Health. Donations can be dropped in the main office or the library.
• Fusha Home Accents, 2 West South Orange Avenue 973.378-3330 Through the Yele Foundation, Wyclef Jean's foundation, Fusha Home Accents (Claudinette Jean's store) is collecting supplies and donations to aid victims. Please donate paper plates, cups, plastic utensils, napkins, large cooking pots and spoons, small bottled water (no gallons please), SOS pads, pencils, notebooks, masks, plastic gloves, latex/non-latex gloves, sheets and pillowcases, pillows, flashlights, diapers, sanitary napkins, and other medical supplies. Please make checks payable to: Yele Foundation, or visit the website to donate. 
• Eden Marketplace, 1 South Orange Avenue, 973.762.5900 Clothing Drive: Please donate summer clothing and footwear for women, men and children. Also needed are diapers.Where: Collection boxes are located at each store entrance of Eden MarketplaceCollection time: Now through January 31, 2010; bring items anytime during Market hours Collecting for: New Jerusalem Baptist Church, Irvington, NJ. 
• The South Orange Police Benevolent Association is currently accepting donation items to be used in relief efforts for the earthquake in Haiti. The police station on South Orange Avenue is accepting donations 24/7 of: water, medical supplies, clothing, personal hygiene products and other non-perishables. 

International Relief Efforts:

• American Red Cross—The ARC is sending tarps, hygiene items and cooking sets for families and is helping the injured who may need blood. Thousands of local Red Cross volunteers are already aiding their fellow Haitians and ARC Disaster management specialists are scheduled to be on the ground soon.
• Convoy of Hope - Setting up an emergency command center just outside Port-au-Prince where food, water and supplies are being distributed.
• Direct Relief International - Arranging an emergency airlift containing over $2 million in medicines and medical supplies that will depart on January 15.
• Doctors Without Borders - Currently treating people on the ground and will be operating an inflatable hospital.
• Save the Children - Has worked in Haiti for 25 years with 100 staff on the ground. Will be providing food, water, shelter and child-friendly spaces. Because Save the Children's offices did not suffer the structural damage of other non-governmental organizations, other aid workers have taken refuge in the agency's compound, where operations are being run out of offices and tents.
• A list of organizations already based in Haiti and currently delivering service is available through InterAction or you can make a contribution through Global Impact's Haiti Earthquake Relief Fund and the funds will be given to agencies providing direct assistance.