MedShare & GO Inspire GO; Helping Haiti

WE MUST ALL DO SOMETHING NOW to help the people in Haiti.

Following the 7.0 Earthquake that rocked the poor island nation of Haiti, the Go Inspire Go Team immediately sent emails to our community, urging everyone in our global nexus to act in whatever way they could by donating money or time to help the people in Haiti who have no shelter, no food, water and proper medical care. I asked everyone to email/comment about how theyre helping the people in Haiti on our GoInspireGo Blog and our Huffington Post Blog. The hope to inspire people by your actions to act.

Some of you responded and donated right away to the Red Cross by texting Haiti to 90999 on your cell phones, while others shared links and donated to other reputable companies who will match our donation dollar for dollar.

Several people emailed and commented telling us about MedShare.Org a non-profit out of Decatur, Georgia and San Leandro, California. For 11 years, MedShare has been collecting sorting and shipping surplus medical supplies from hospitals (supplies that wouldve otherwise ended up in the garbage) to more than 80 countries. MedShare already had a shipment en route to a hospital in Haiti before the earthquake, however, a team of thousands work feverishly, to send over more than half a million dollars worth of medical supplies to Haiti since the disaster.

The Go Inspire Go Team was inspired to take action. We visited the folks at MedShare in San Leandro and created this video to inspire you to volunteer or donate your time to this amazing group and/or to do whatever you can to HELP HAITI -- NOW. Please watch, share and DO SOMETHING.

Please don't just watch and just feel, please SHARE this video and DO SOMETHING. You can save lives.

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• go inspire go
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• medshare
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• surplus medical supplies
• haitian
• relief efforts

[christinamtobin]

Powerful.

[articlesSF]

This is what all journalism should be about. Educating and inspiring people to take action. Thanks for featuring a local non-profit that's doing such important global work.

[jamieborromeo]

Toan, Happy Birthday to one of the brightest lights in today's world... just another reason to celebrate you. Thank you to the GIG team for bringing awareness to these issues. We're in this together ! Thank you for your commitment to helping others understanding the collective action that must be sustained to create a better world for all of us:) Hugs!

[ashabpatel]

Great message. There are tons of local opportunities out there to do something. The mother-daughter duo are such an inspiration, as is MedShare, who's been out there for over a decade working for people they don't even know. The difference this time, though, is that they've seen those faces in Haiti plastered all over the news, and with that sort of mental image, everything seems so much more urgent now.

Awesome work, GiG, in finding a local story like this and bringing it to the stage.

[NoTofu4u]

This story is so powerful. It gets me every time when Chuck Haupt tears up. I will not forget the people of Haiti and how this horrific event moved me act.