Even before the 7.0 earthquake hit on Tuesday Haiti was as much of a third world country as any place in the world. With only a handful of spas throughout the entire country, more of a concern is having clean drinking water then the luxuries that we are so lucky to enjoy.

In 2008 the country was hit extremely hard by a series of hurricanes, and even before these hurricanes the country was still an impoverished nation with massive illiteracy rates, lack of food, clean water, supplies, medical facilities and doctors.

Now that this poor nation has been struck with the worst earthquake in its history, it is up to us to do what we can to provide relief to the survivors in hope that they will not need to live amongst the dead and filth of the aftermath of this massive disaster. We must do what we can for this country in hope that the future of this impecunious land will be brighter then the past or the present.

Here is a list of organizations that are already in Haiti, working to help the victims of this massive disaster. Please donate what you can to help today:

• American Red Cross
• American Red Cross of Greater Los Angeles
• American Refugee Committee
• The White House, Help for Haiti
• Salvation Army
• Doctors Without Borders
• USAID
• Feed My Starving Children
• UNICEF
• Healing Haiti
• Healing Hands for Haiti
• Partners in Health
• Haiti Outreach