On January 12, 2010, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake occurred about 10 miles west of Haiti’s capital, Port-Au-Prince. Combined over 300,00 homes were damaged in someway, over 100,000 of those homes were destroyed completely. This earthquake left about 1.5 million Haitians homeless. They believe the death toll is some where between 200,000 - 250,000, they are not really sure how many have actually died because there were so many bodies not found and people are still reported missing. Americans donated $1.6 million
to the country of Haiti, Obama donated $200,000 himself. There are numerous charities now working to help rebuild the country of Haiti. Haiti's government said it would take at least $12 billion to do so.
http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=content.view&cpid=1186
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