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United African Congress (UAC), Earth Rights Institute (ERI), Gesundheit Foundation and Humanitarian Travels International Join GTAH to Provide Medical and Humanitarian Assistance to Haiti		• Press Release- 03.10-PDF Haiti Customs Releases "Sea Hunter"... • Press Release- 03.10-PDF BSVC honors GTAH Partners in Brooklyn... • Press Release- 03.10-PDF NJ For Haiti Joins GTAH Partners... • Press Release- 03.10-PDF "Patch" Adams MD & Gesuntheit Sign On... • Newsletter- 02.10-PDF Update: Haiti Relief Activity • Press Release- 01.10-PDF GTAH Partners send Medical Relief • GTAH Website Facelift-PDF • GTAH Brochure-PDF • Donation Collection Locations-PDF • GTAH Bon Repos, Haiti 2010 Flyer-PDF
• Kids Explore, Universal Aid Society, and the Luisa Messon Foundation Continue Our Long Standing Partnership With GTAH:. teaming up with World Care, United African Congress (UAC), Earth Rights Institute (ERI), to mobilize resources and assist Haiti to cope with present circumstances and eventually to rebuild the peoples lives and country. GTAH provided volunteers to the Consulate of Haiti in the first days of the crisis and continues to do so in order to assist with moving volunteer Health Care professionals into Haiti.
	GTAH Gordon Tapper: Haiti Relief Fund Raiser Feb 5 @ Amnesia New York
• 18 March, GTAH and partners to launch a 35 member medical and humanitarian mission to Light and Peace Mission and Orphanage in Bon Repos, Haiti- The Mission will be maintained for several months, rotating personnel periodically. This 18 March mission will include the famous Dr "Patch" Adams from the Gesundheit Foundation.
• GTAH Help Facilitate Travel for 14 Member Volunteer Medical Team into Haiti-consisting of doctors and professional health care providers from the Bedford Stuyvesant Volunteer Ambulance Corp (BSVAC) into Haiti to work at the General Hospital in Port Au Prince.
	From right, Assemblyman Felix Ortiz of the Bronx, Sharrye Moore- President GTAH, Mr. Felix Augustin- Consul General of Haiti, Ms Malin Falu- SpanishTalk Show host, and Suleika Cabrera Drinane- Institute of Puerto Rican/Hispanics Elderly. Photo January 24 th at the Puerto Rican Center Press Conference lauching a telethon in Puerto Rico that raised $3,000,000 by the end of February.	DONATE GOODS & SERVICES
• GTAH Facilitated donation of a Mobile MaxPure® to the Light and Peace Mission in Bon Repos, Haiti- (MMP) is a standalone solar-powered fresh water purification system with the capacity to pump and purify an average of 30,000 gallons each day is valued at $100,000 and was donated by the City of Rahway, NJ together and the United Water Company Inc. This will provide clean water for the community and the more than 12,000 refugees from Port Au Prince who had made their way out of the ruins of the city. The water filter, a Mobile MaxPure® (MMP) is powered by solar panels and can also be used to desalinate 3,000 gallons of sea water a day...more
	Designed to be transported by air, water or truck, the Mobile MaxPure® MMP can make it to any site and can be running using only the power of the sun- even on cloudy days- to produce much needed energy and water pumping/ purification in the wake of a disaster.	VOLUNTEER
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• Greater Washington Haiti Coordinating Committee team up with GTAH and partners- to provide doctors for the charter flight to Haiti , piloted by actor and leading Scientologist John Travolta. The flight, with the actor's wife, Kelly Preston on board, left Tampa on 25 January with a group of 20 doctors/ nurses and six tons of aid to Port-au-Prince. ...see video

• GTAH and partners send a team of doctors from Canada to Jimani, Dominican Republic- where they assisted the hospitals there in treating hundreds of injured Haitians who crossed the border for treatment. Jimani is on the border of Haiti The medical team lead by Glen Lahey, president of Kids Explore, included two doctors (one surgeon) three nurses, three paramedics, two EMS, one translator, one videographer, and a journalist. The team arrived in Jimani on 22 January and after a six day stay returned to Canada on 28 January.


__PROJECT UPDATES- HAITI 2010:
Aid shipped since 13 January:
• 2 pallets of duffle bags (Cleveland ) • 8 pallets of tents (Cleveland) • 8 pallets of sleeping bags (Cleveland) • 2 pallets of insulated coolers (Cleveland ) • 39,500 lbs of soap (Barberton, OH ) • 45,000 lbs of corn meal (Columbia, SC ) • 7 pallets of medical supplies (Buena Park & Long Beach, CA )
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__ABOUT US
Give Them A Hand Foundation (GTAH) functions as an informal partnership initiative, bringing together members of the United Nations Diplomatic community, United Nations Departments and Agencies, Non-Governmental-Organizations, the Private Sector and Corporations to assist the less privileged communities around the worlds to escape the clutches of extreme poverty, poor health and lack of education. GTAH considers the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to be an important blueprint for improving the quality of life of the millions of people around who have very little and exist on next to nothing. GTAH's mission is to bring about the realization of the objectives of MDG's to as many people as it can emphasis on the Caribbean, Central America and Africa.
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United Nations- MILLENIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS
• Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger	• Goal 5: Improve maternal health
• Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education	• Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS and disease
• Goal 3: Promote gender equality	• Goal 7: Ensure environmental sustainability
• Goal 4: Reduce child mortality	• Goal 8: Develop a Global Partnership