Many countries, notably United States of America, United Kingdom, Canada, Italy and Brazil sent large contigents (over 1000) of emergency relief and medical staff, techinicians and security personnel. They also committed numerous major assets such as field hospitals, naval vessels, including a hospital ship and aircraft.
These are some organisations' help for haiti:
-The World Bank provided a funding of a massive $100 million to support reconstruction and recovery
-World Health Organisation(WHO) sent a 12-member team of health and logistics experts
-Internation Atomic Energy Agency sent eight mobile medical X-ray machines
-Organisation of American States donated US$100,000
-Europian Union(EU) has released 3 million Euros in emergency funding
-EU provided 122 million Euros in humanitarian assistance
-EU provided 30 million Euros in emergency relief aid package
These are donations from private persons:
-Jennifer Aniston donated US$500,000
-Sandra Bullock donated Us$1 million
-Lady Gaga donated more than $500,000 from her New York concert
-Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt donated US$1 million
-Madonna donated US$250,000
-Tiger Woods donated US$3 million
-Charlie Simpson, a seven-year old British boy who aimed to raise 500 Pounds by cycling round his local park in London has so far raised 206,000 Pounds(as of 16 February 2010)
-Celebrities also got together to sing for Haiti.
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