A thank you from Doctors Without Borders

I was so touched today to receive a handwritten thank you note from the Hearts for Haiti contact at MSF and want to share it here since it is really for everyone who volunteered, donated, supported, promoted, and otherwise helped our project become such a great success.


The card reads, "Dear Victoria, On behalf of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), I want to thank you for all your generous work fundraising to support our organization. We are so honored you selected MSF as the beneficiary. As requested at the beginning all donations have been directed towards our operations treating the victims of the earthquake in Haiti. Your efforts are helping us to respond to the emergency in Haiti by providing urgently needed medical care and humanitarian aid to thousands of vulnerable people. Please extend our gratitude to all those involved. Thank you for getting involved and for helping to make a difference. Kind Regards, Charlie Kunzer"

It's a simple gesture but somehow it really brought everything home for me. We really did do something monumental!

♥ Victoria

Fourth and final payment sent - $7,305.64

I'm so honored to finally be sending this fourth and final check to Doctors Without Borders. This experience. The shop closed in September and I just had the PayPal reserve lifted and the money transferred to the credit union account so at long last the rest of the money is on its way! Another $7,300--amazing!

♥ Victoria

What Can $30,000.00 In Donations Buy Doctors Without Borders?

The Hearts for Haiti shop on Etsy.com just reached $30,000.00 in donations this week.  

Beberagz, an Etsy shop owner and a donor, asked a great question: "...It would be interesting to know what that amount of money will buy for Doctors Without Borders [?]". 


HFH Volunteer Colleen (aka FiveSparrows) wrote:  "I was curious after your comment beberagz -so i did some looking on the Doctors Without Borders website. This comes from their general page of where your donation goes": 
http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/donate/what.cfm 

$35 Two high-energy meals a day to 200 children 
$50 Vaccinations for 50 people against meningitis, measles, polio or other deadly epidemics 
$70 Two basic suture kits to repair minor shrapnel wounds 
$100 Infection-fighting antibiotics to treat nearly 40 wounded children
$250 A sterilization kit for syringes and needles used in mobile vaccination campaigns
$500 A medical kit containing basic drugs, supplies, equipment, and dressings to treat 1,500 patients for three months
$1000 Emergency medical supplies to aid 5,000 disaster victims for an entire month 
$5500 An emergency health kit to care for 10,000 displaced people for three months 

Then I did some number crunching:

Taking 30000 and hypothetically saying it would only go to help one of those items (just for the sake of visualization)-even though I am sure it gets split up into lots of places-this could translate into:
health kits to care for 50000 people for three months,
Or emergency medical supplies for 150000 people for a month, 
or medical kits with basic drugs and supplies to treat 90000 people for three months
Or 120 sterilization kits used in mobile vaccine campaigns
Or enough antibiotics to treat 12000 wounded children
Or vaccinations against meningitis, measles or polio for 30000 people
Or two meals a day for 171428 children

Pretty amazing results of how much 30000 can do!!"

(Image courtesy of HFH donation, title: "Best Friends" by PocketCarnival of Melbourne, Australia. Thank you!)

Third payment has been sent - $ 8.500.00

Another receipt has been received and we are pleased to post copy of third payment of $8,500, bringing the total of payments processed so far to $26,500.










Our continued thanks to everyone who has volunteered, donated, bought, and spread the word.

...........together we really ARE making a difference!!

♥ Victoria

Editors note: To see other receipt posts, refer to receipt label

Edited to add the thank you letter from MSF:

Doctors Without Borders Haiti Update Recorded

Did you miss the live update? Here is the recorded livestream (1 hr 21 min), listen in.

Doctors Without Borders Haiti Earthquake Update - Live Online

Join Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) for a special teleconference on the recent earthquake in Haiti, streamed live online.

Hear first-hand how their medical teams set up makeshift clinics to triage patients on the grounds of destroyed hospital structures; how they accomplished complicated surgical procedures in an inflatable hospital and tents; and the future of their work as they continue to address medical challenges the Haitian people are facing.

Find out how donations are being put to work. Ask your questions.

Location: Online at Ustream - Haiti Earthquake Update
Date: Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Time: 12 noon EST / 11 am CST / 10 am MST / 9 am PST / 8 am AST / 7 am HST

For more information, refer to Public Events on the Doctors Without Borders website.

picture courtesty of Doctors Without Borders

Doctors Without Borders - Thank You Letter

Doctors Without Borders - Letter of Authorization

Click here to download PDF (35.1 KB)

Inside MSF's Inflatable Hospital

Take a tour of one part of the inflatable hospital Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) will set up in Haiti.

See all Doctors Without Borders (MSF) Videos on YouTube

Doctors Without Borders in Haiti

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international medical humanitarian organization working in more than 60 countries to assist people whose survival is threatened by violence, neglect, or catastrophe.

See all Doctors Without Borders (MSF) Videos on YouTube

Another payment is sent - $ 13,000 on the way!

I was so proud of everyone involved in Hearts for Haiti today when I sent our second check to Doctors Without Borders, this one in the whopping sum of $13,000.00!










Thanks so much to everyone who has volunteered, donated, bought, and spread the word.

...........together we really ARE making a difference!!

♥ Victoria

Editors note: To see other receipt posts, refer to receipt label

Doctors Without Borders on Twitter

A letter from Doctors Without Borders
To Hearts for Haiti
Sent on Jan 21/10

Hello,

I manage the website and social media for Doctors Without Borders. I wanted to thank you for the Hearts for Haiti fundraiser you are doing.

I am seeing it mentioned a ton on Twitter, and as we are still trying to build our following on Twitter, I was hoping you would let people know that they can

Follow our updates from Haiti at @MSF_USA.

Maybe you could mention this on the main page and/or from any Twitter accounts you have?

Thanks again so much for your support.

Julie Whitaker
US Web & Social Media
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)
333 7th Avenue, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10001
+1 212-847-3143

Making a difference - the first $5,000.00

I was so excited to send the first $5000 to Doctors Without Borders this morning!!



I plan to post all acknowledgement letters from Doctors Without Borders here, but until that comes I will post the receipt from the certified check:











I can't tell you what an enormous pleasure it was to send this out, all the tellers and postal officers had to hear me blabbering on about the shop!!

This is just the first check--it takes time for the money to transfer from PayPal to the account. In total we have raised over $10,000 so far (less PayPal and Etsy fees)!!!

I am really so overwhelmed and humbled by what we have been able to accomplish. Together we really can make a difference--THANK YOU!!!!

♥ Victoria

Editors note: To see other receipt posts, refer to receipt label