The American Red Cross Increases Aid To Haiti

The American Red Cross is contributing $600,000 for relief operations in areas of Haiti affected by a series of powerful hurricanes. Of the contribution, $500,000 is a grant from the U.S. Government’s Agency for International Development/Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA) and will contribute to relief supplies including hygiene kits, buckets, mosquito nets, and five trained disaster workers.

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Filed under: Aid / Disasters on October 11th, 2008