.......excerpt from ladiff.com
Still littered in rubble even months after the major earthquake disaster, Haiti has only received a small portion of the aid promised by other nations to rebuild.
NPR reports, "More than 1.5 million people still live in more than 1,000 encampments that sprouted up after the Jan. 12 quake. Americans have donated more than $1.3 billion for Haiti, and thousands of charities are helping the recovery effort."
LaDIFF has spent the better part of 2010 working with aid organization virginians4haiti to raise awareness and financial assistance to Haiti to rebuild this island nation. In addition to devoting portions of the LaDIFF showroom to displaying Haitian crafts for collecting donations and engaging customers in conversation to raise awareness of these ongoing efforts, LaDIFF was fortunate enough to collect contributions from various furnishings manufacturers.
Donations came mostly in the form of merchandise to sell during the massive 30th Anniversary Sale held in June and early July, 2010. Proceeds from these contributions and from the sale event as a whole will provide generous and much needed funding for medical work, home building and other aid to the Haitian people.
Being a good citizen, corporate or otherwise, means looking at your backyard and the backyards of those who live thousands of miles away. We are all interconnected.
LaDifference will continue to build a long-term relationship with virginians4haiti and the great work they have done and will be doing in the future.
LaDiff owners, Andy Thornton & Sarah Paxton present a $25,000 contribution for aid organization virginians4haiti to Allan B. Harvie, jr. (middle).
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