A catalog and digest of who's sharing information from or about Haiti, without the cross-chatter or noise.



The Live Feeds from Haiti Blog is where you can follow links to view real-time Twitter feeds from/about Haiti, whether you have a Twitter account or not.



Simply click the links below to view live Twitter feeds from Twitter members who are tweeting from Haiti.



Each link will open the feed in a new window. You may open as many windows, and follow as many feeds, as your web browser will permit. To refresh a feed, you can refresh the browser window.



Feeds appear as soon as they are posted to Twitter so you can stay up to date on what is happening in Haiti.



Immediately below are our top three suggested feeds:

Live Twitter Updates from InternetHaiti: What's Happening on the Ground

Twitter Username: InternetHaiti
Location: Port-au-Prince

What They're Tweeting: Frequent updates of conditions on the ground and breaking news, in English and en Francais

Read Live Updates from InternetHaiti: See What's Happening on the Ground

The Google Crisis Response Center

What They're Posting: Search for Missing Loved Ones in Haiti, Post Updates on Those Known to be OK; Learn How to Make Free Calls to Haiti


Search the Google Crisis Response Center

MirelaMonte: Logistics, Info for Relief Workers

Twitter Username: @MirelaMonte
What She's Tweeting: Logistics information for relief workers in, and deploying to Haiti

Read Live Twitter Updates from @MirelaMonte

Monday, January 18, 2010

Updates and Reports from Humanitarian Organizations

Click on Twitter Username to Read Feeds

Twitter Username: CAREUSA
CARE: Defending Dignity, Fighting Poverty
Location: Atlanta/On the ground in Haiti
What They're Tweeting: Updates on CARE's relief efforts in Haiti

Non-Twitter Link: Blog: Coco Mcabe of Oxfam America
Location: On the ground in Haiti
What She's Posting: Reports of Oxfam's operations, honest, gritty reports of conditions on the ground.

Twitter Username: CNNImpact/haiti-charities
From CNN
Location: various
What they're Tweeting: Digest of Tweets from Humanitarian Organizations on the ground in Haiti

Twitter Username: HaitiRewired
An ongoing conversation about technology, infrastructure, and the future of Haiti hosted by @Wired
Location: various, network of volunteers. Mission Statement: http://haitirewired.ning.com/profiles/blogs/haiti-rewireds-mission
What They're Tweeting: Building a network of volunteer collaborators: technologists, researchers, geographers, infrastructure specialists, aid groups and others.

Twitter Username: IDFinHaiti
IDF and Israeli aid delegation in Haiti
Location: On the ground in Haiti
What They're Tweeting: updates from their field hospital, updates on their rescue/aid operations

Twitter Username: Louisoxfam
Humanitarian Media Officer for Oxfam, an international charity that works with others to overcome poverty and suffering around the world.
Location: Port-au-Prince
What He's Tweeting: Text updates and SKYPE video updates in English and en Français, breaking news on aid for those in Haiti, reports from the ground in Port-au-Prince

Twitter Username: MerlinUK
Merlin is an international aid agency specialising in health
Location: On the ground in Haiti
What They're Tweeting: Updates on field surgical unit in Haiti, one surgeon is also blogging

Twitter Username: MSF_USA
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières
Location: Haiti
What They're Tweeting: Updates on medical aid operations in Haiti

Twitter Username: PIH_org
Partners in Health
Location: On the ground in Haiti
What They're Tweeting: Updates on operations at the General Hospital in Port-au-Prince

Twitter Username: reliefweb
Relief Web - Serving the Information Needs of the Humanitarian Relief Community
Location: Geneva, Kobe, New York, on the ground in Haiti
What They're Tweeting: News of aid delivery challenges, needs priorities, maps of aid stations in Haiti, detailed local damage assessment reports and maps, news for those deploying to Haiti

Twitter Username: stcuk
Save The Children UK
Location: London
What They're Tweeting: news of hospitals and shelters in Leogane, Haiti

Twitter Username: UNHaitiInfo
Info source for UN community, family and friends of UN staff and operations in Haiti.
Location: On the ground in Haiti/New York, NY
What They're Tweeting: Updates on UN operations in Haiti, updates on other relief org operations

Twitter Username: Unicef
Location: United Nations/On the ground in Haiti
What They're Tweeting: Reports of operations, field diaries, reports of relief efforts

Twitter Username: USNSComfort
US Navy Hospital Ship Comfort
Location: Haiti
What They're Tweeting: reports of their medical aid operations in Haiti

Twitter Username: WFPlogistics
World Food Project Logistics
Location: On the ground Haiti
What They're Tweeting: Conditions/passability of roadways, runways and ports, news of air evacuation of survivors.

Twitter Username: WorldVisionUSA
World Vision has 800 staff in Haiti responding to 7.0 earthquake on 1/12.
Location: Haiti
What They're Tweeting: updates from orphanages

Twitter Username: YELEHAITI
Twitter Home of Wyclef Jean's YeleHaiti Foundation
What They're Tweeting: Updates on YeleHaiti Foundation's wide-ranging aid/recovery efforts in Haiti

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