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Jean calls for donations for Haiti earthquake relief effort
By CMU Editorial | Published on Thursday 14 January 2010
Given the magnitude of this week’s earthquake in Haiti I felt a bit guilty thinking to myself on Tuesday night, “I wonder what Wyclef’s got to say about this?”, but as one of the Caribbean country’s most famous natives, and an official ‘roving ambassador’ for the nation, it was inevitable the media would be looking to the former Fugee for comment.
Wyclef Jean took to his website shortly after the earthquake struck, telling his fans that Haiti had suffered “a natural disaster of unprecedented proportion… unlike anything the country has ever experienced. I cannot stress enough what a human disaster this is, and idle hands will only make this tragedy worse”.
He later urged people to donate to the charity he founded, the Yele Haiti Foundation, which he said was already on the ground helping with the relief effort. His call for help seemingly went answered, so much so the organisation’s online and SMS donation platforms struggling to cope with the transactions.
Jean later confirmed he was returning to his native country to help with his Foundation’s relief work first hand, and to support his own family who have been affected by the quake. As you have no doubt seen, tens of thousands are feared dead after a 7.0-magnitude quake struck south of the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince on Tuesday.
