REPOST: Robots + Monsters Partners With Doctors Without Borders For Haiti

I wanted to repost this message from my friends at Robots + Monsters. I'm a past, present and future supporter of theirs and the causes they support. I ask that you give it some consideration as well!

Robots + Monsters Partners With Doctors Without Borders For Haiti
Helping Out In One of The Worst Natural Disasters In Modern History

Over the past three years, Robots + Monsters has gone on to raise nearly 20K for great causes like the SF AIDS Foundation, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Water.org.

This round is a little different, if only because there is an urgency behind the cause. As I'm sure you're aware, the devastation wrought by the earthquake in Haiti last Tuesday is overwhelming. The disaster is distressing on so many levels; not only is the physical destruction appalling, but for it to hit a country that already had so many infrastructural problems boggles the notion of basic fairness in the world.

Robots and Monsters stands with everyone else in being filled with a sense of duty to help, in whatever way we can. Luckily, we have a little history knowing how to do that; as fate would have it, we were already in talks with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) when the earthquake hit. When we asked MSF if it was alright if we launched a little earlier than expected in order to get a jump start on the fund-raising, they gave us their full blessing. From a press release from MSF:

“Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international medical humanitarian organization created by doctors and journalists in France in 1971. Today, MSF provides aid in nearly 70 countries to people whose survival is threatened by violence, neglect, or catastrophe, primarily due to armed conflict, epidemics, malnutrition, exclusion from health care, or natural disasters. MSF provides independent, impartial assistance to those most in need.

On Tuesday, January 12, a massive earthquake struck Haiti’s Port-au-Prince, leaving thousands of people injured and homeless.

At the time of the quake Doctors Without Borders was providing emergency care in three medical centers around Port-au-Prince.  Our medical teams moved quickly to establish temporary shelters, moving operations to safely respond to the overwhelming medical need of our patients.   More than 1,000 injured people have been treated by Doctors Without Borders medical teams in the first 24 hours following the earthquake and we are currently transporting additional staff and emergency supplies into Haiti.

Our teams need your help to do their work.  Support to this emergency response and ongoing emergency medical work in Haiti by visiting Robotsandmonsters.org, or doctorswithoutborders.org.”

In many situations like this, a large fund-raising effort drops off precipitously after the news media stops leading with the story. To that end, we're committed to MSF for a long-term relationship that will hopefully help them out throughout the year. Hopefully, we can all work together to help MSF assist the truly needy, and aid them in refilling their coffers long after the news cameras have gone home.

As usual, we have an amazing roster of talented artists; the incredible favorites like Apelad, John Martz, and David Huyck, along with teriffic new artists like Jeannine Schafer, Michael Fleming, and Molly Crabapple. Please join them and Robots and Monsters in helping raise money for MSF and their continuing efforts.

Thanks for being part of what we do,

Joe Alterio
Founder, Robots and Monsters.org