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Wine For Haiti Disaster Relief (How You Can Help)1 min read

Posted on January 15, 2010 by 1WineDude

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Driving home last night, I heard a segment on NPR about the local response to the current disaster in Haiti:

  • A Haitian man had made his way to one of the camps being set up to care for the displaced. He was asked if he was injured or looking for lost relatives.  No, he said, he was fine and his family was unharmed.  He had come to see if he could in any way comfort those who had no one left after the devastating earthquake.  The man ended up comforting an eight year old girl whose entire family had been killed in the disaster.

There are scores of stories like this. 

The situation for Haitians was dire before the quake – now, it’s abysmal, and there is no government relief effort.  Now you can help, in two wine-related ways:

  1. The first way comes to us via mweb’s posterous site: If you purchase charity wine at ONEHOPEWine.com using the promo code HAITI you receive a 20% discount and 20% of your purchase will go to support those in need (via donations to Partners in Health).
     
  2. The next comes to us via PalatePress: PalatePress.com is partnering with Brother, can you spare a bottle? to create a wine auction from wines that you donate from your cellar, with proceeds going to the American Red Cross.  Palate Press is covering costs of shipping and handling to the auction winners. Check out the details at http://palatepress.com/2010/01/haiti/.

Please spread the word, support one of these causes if you can!

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9 thoughts on “Wine For Haiti Disaster Relief (How You Can Help)1 min read”

  1. Chris says:
    January 15, 2010 at 2:41 pm

    Thanks for the info, Joe. I hope everyone will donate in some way.

    Another good way to donate without spending cash is to go to your local Red Cross and donate a pint of blood. Your blood may not get to Haiti, but the whole supply of blood gets depleted with these disasters and there is always a need in your local community as well.

    1. 1WineDude says:
      January 15, 2010 at 4:09 pm

      But skip the wine beforehand! :)

  2. Lori says:
    January 15, 2010 at 5:41 pm

    Very cool Joe. It's amazing what creativity comes out of disaster.

    1. 1WineDude says:
      January 15, 2010 at 5:43 pm

      And those folks need all of the creativity that we can spare right now!

  3. David Honig says:
    January 16, 2010 at 2:14 pm

    Thanks Joe. All the help is appreciated.

    1. 1WineDude says:
      January 16, 2010 at 2:26 pm

      My pleasure – best of luck on the effort!

  4. Bob Whisten says:
    January 18, 2010 at 5:38 pm

    Sequoia Grove Winery in Rutherford Is donating all of their Tasting fees collected from Saturday,Sunday and Monday to the Haiti Disaster Relief Fund.

  5. 1WineDude says:
    January 18, 2010 at 5:44 pm

    Thanks, Bob!!

  6. 1WineDude says:
    January 18, 2010 at 5:48 pm

    Hi all – I just got an e-mail from Greg over at http://www.martellotto.com and http://www.bighammerwines.com/ .

    According to Greg: "My online wine store is donating to Haiti since last weekend and I've extended our offer to send money to Haiti from online sales through Friday Jan. 22."

    Check it out!

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