Summary: Donate to Haiti thru any means of your choice through February 15th, send me proof and your mailing address, I’ll send you an AL character sketch of your choice. It’s that easy!

In case you’ve been living under a rock somewhere, Haiti was recently struck by a massive earthquake.  In a country already hard hit with poverty, corruption and lack of access to things that many of us take for granted, this event’s destructive qualities are terribly magnified. The situation currently is, for a lack of a better word, abysmal – and it’s not bound to get better any time soon.

For a lot of us, going to Haiti to help directly is not an option – with my lack of real life, survival or practical skills, you could possibly make things worse or stand in the way. But there are ways to donate and help out. As I put in a donation to the Red Cross yesterday, I decided to put one of my few actual abilities (drawing, apparently) to good use.

That’s why if you donate anything to Haiti between now and February 15th, through any organization of your choice (there’s a lot of good options out there — see below for some pointers) I’ll personally send you a sketch of any character of your choice as an extra incentive for you to open up your heart. All you have to do is send me proof of your donation to armando@atomiclaundromat.com (you may hide the donation amount to protect your privacy if you so wish) with your mailing address. DON’T SEND ME ANY MONEY. To avoid any confusion, I’m deactivating my own “Donate” page — I want you to go put your money in the hands of the people who can action in Haiti ASAP and just let me know when you’ve done it.  By the way, if you donate in a way that has no obvious “proof” – dropping off a sack of canned food at a collection center, or depositing money at your local church – email me anyways. I think that for something like this, we can do the honor system. Although a picture of a reader with a sack of cans would be awesome.

Donors in the USA
- American Red Cross. The American Red Cross is taking donations via text message – text “haiti” to 90999 to make a $10 USD donation (major cell carriers are waiving additional text messaging fees). You can also donate on their homepage.  

Donors in Mexico
- El Universal has an excellent page on all collection points and bank accounts for aid to Haiti.

Donors elsewhere
- UNICEF. They are collecting funds for children in need on their homepage.
- American Red Cross. They accept contributions from everywhere on their homepage.
- Canadian Red Cross. They are accepting contributions from everywhere, so visit their homepage. (thanks Elliott!)

I know that maybe a lot of you were already planning on donating anyways, so this is a small thank you on behalf of those whose life you may be changing. If this whole thing pushes just one person over the edge to make a donation, I’ll call this whole little effort a success.

This “offer” is open to anybody around the world.