Patricia Arquette and Rosetta Getty have started a foundation called Give Love to help the people of Haiti to rebuild after the earthquake. Their first project is to build temporary housing for some of the people who are still displaced after the quake. Future projects include developing low-cost, safe waste management systems, water treatment systems and so forth.
You can read more about her organization, and contribute if you are so inclined at her website.
She will also be appearing on a press radio tour on Thursday, March 25th to talk about her work in Haiti, and her organization.
Patricia Arquette will be on The Bob Rivers Show today, March 25th 2010 at 8:00am PT, to promote her new charity “Give Love.” Tune in to 102.5 KZOK Seattle or log on http://www.bobrivers.com!
keep building new housing and keep up the great work over
in haiti
Wow! I Love you….completely (unconditionally)! For it is through the example of Strength through Love shared by women like you that I am inspired and even shown how to raise my two girls as productive, loving members of our world. To you & all alike, I am eternally grateful ~Ronda
Heard you locally in Minneapolis. Part of your comments included (I think) finding low-fuel ways to cook. Suggest you goggle “solar stoves”
One of the churches here provided many to Kenya…they also do not have fuel…these stoves cost about $25.00 to make cost them way more to ship
and transport across land. The best part is they provide ways to boil water and there is no fire hazzard. They are brought indoors at night to prevent them being stolen…are very portable.
I enjoy your series, especially the way you all interact as a family…I almost died when it looked like Aeral (sp) was going to be history…I have a beautiful 14 year old granddaughter and my heart went to my stomach…to real. But, she (the actor) was super.
thank you Ms Patricia for Giving A Hand To My dear country Haiti
You may be interested in joining with this website, also. It is being supported by the rapper won-g (onedomeatatime.org)
Houston – April 14, 2010
Thank you Patricia Arquette, architect Christopher Robertson, hosts Carolyn and James Robertson, Ibiza and all the friends and supporters of the Give Love Foundation for the wonderful and enlightening fundraiser in Houston, Texas. If you were there in Houston to see what this collaboration of passionate humanitarians are envisioning, championing and actually constructing as we write, you too might feel compelled to join in their efforts in whatever way you could to help build clean, safe, functional and sustainable homes (being constructed out of shipping containers), with potable water, drainage, sewer facilities, along with a safe clean water well, in a community that is being literally carved out of the earth and reborn like the Phoenix.
The Houstonians were very moved and generous, however, much needs to be done.
So if you have donations of supplies, materials, skills, toothbrushes, seeds, food, fuel, ideas, medical supplies or money, this is a great way to make sure your investment is actually getting to some of the families who need it with a foundaton that has an active game plan and willingness to explore options that will make a difference for about 3,000 good, displaced women, children and men who are hungry, wet and living on the ground in makeshift tents with the barest essentials, if that, in the rainy season.
The site is on a former bottling plant and the children were playing barefoot on the ground which was littered with broken glass until Patrica got there and helped rake it up. There is one muddy well that the people are using to wash, bath and unfortuneatly probably get their water supply from..and we know this means the spread of disease. Give Love is working on plans to reconstruct the well, provide showers…well they they would be better at telling you all their plans.
We hope our small involvement will make a difference in helping Patricia, Christopher Robertson, and the Haitian team, to further their goals of building housing in Haiti to help a small group of families. We also hope that perhaps what they are doing will foster that seed within you of helping your fellow man. The Give Love Foundation is great!
Let us know if we can be of any help whatsoever.
Much love and light,
Karen and John E. Bradshaw, Sr.
Houston – April 14, 2010
Thank you Patricia Arquette, architect Christopher Robertson, hosts Carolyn and James Robertson, Ibiza and all the friends and supporters of the Give Love Foundation for the wonderful and enlightening fundraiser in Houston, Texas. If you were there in Houston to see what this collaboration of passionate humanitarians are envisioning, championing and actually constructing as we write, you too might feel compelled to join in their efforts in whatever way you could to help build clean, safe, functional and sustainable homes (being constructed out of shipping containers), with potable water, drainage, sewer facilities, along with a safe clean water well, in a community that is being literally carved out of the earth and reborn like the Phoenix.
The Houstonians were very moved and generous, however, much needs to be done.
So if you have donations of supplies, materials, skills, toothbrushes, seeds, food, fuel, ideas, medical supplies or money, this is a great way to make sure your investment is actually getting to some of the families who need it with a foundaton that has an active game plan and willingness to explore options that will make a difference for about 3,000 good, displaced women, children and men who are hungry, wet and living on the ground in makeshift tents with the barest essentials, if that, in the rainy season.
The site is on a former bottling plant and the children were playing barefoot on the ground which was littered with broken glass until Patrica got there and helped rake it up. There is one muddy well that the people are using to wash, bath and unfortuneatly probably get their water supply from..and we know this means the spread of disease. Give Love is working on plans to reconstruct the well, provide showers…well they they would be better at telling you all their plans.
We hope our small involvement will make a difference in helping Patricia, Christopher Robertson, and the Haitian team, to further their goals of building housing in Haiti to help a small group of families. We also hope that perhaps what they are doing will foster that seed within you of helping your fellow man. The Give Love Foundation is great!
Let us know if we can be of any help whatsoever.
Much love and light,
Karen and John E. Bradshaw, Sr.
Patricia, thanks for lending your name for such a worthy cause. Our son is over there now and sends us brief messages about the devastation. He says the rich areas are far poorer than over here and that the poor conditions are indescribable. He is building really extremely primitive shelters for children to sleep in. He sends messages of orphans more than you can count, and of children coming up naked on the street. One little boy was about 5 years old, naked and playing with a condom but was happy that he had something to play with. Our son said that he pulled off his shirt and put it on the boy and it hung like a robe. He also says that the people are beautiful, both inside and out.
For the person who mention solar cookers, you clearly are reading theory. That tha NGO has the chutzpuh to keep producing them is beyond me. They make great shoe racks and parts of Africa and Asia are full of solar cooking graveyards. Haiti is no exception. They are only good to boil or heat water at certain times of the day and as a project is an utter failure and ecological disaster to boot.
I saw you on the View today and just wanted to touch base. Your idea of using containers as houses is a great one. I have developed a way to produce Hi-volumes of Hi-quality fresh & nutritious produce daily – using any industrial unit (it supplies its own power and re-cycles almost all the water) – We just need seeds & time to get it going. Once it gets past the 1st grow-cycle for each crop it produces a harvest every day – if demand requires it. Example: Here in Canada a 1 acre building could produce up to 2,300 heads of lettuce DAILY – 365 days a year (a one acre greenhouse currently can produce about 50,000 head per year or avg ~142 heads daily). The system (I call it a ‘Produce Factory’) could be adapted to work using containers as well and could grow local produce. The drawback is I’m just at the initial fund-raising stage so it would take some time to develop the ‘container version’. Before I heard you speak about this I had already included my idea about using containers to make a smaller version of the Produce Factory for use in places like Haiti. I think this concept will be very helpful, not just in Haiti, but around the World once it is operational. If you would like more information about my project please contact me thru the email above. Thanks! And good luck with the container housing project – a great idea!
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Hi, I hope that is well with you and your work.
My name is frantz, I am the project coordinator at HABB Foundation in HAITI. It is very encouraging to our staff and I that you all are lending a helping hand to the recovery of Haiti and the social development of it’s people. It goes without saying that your help is much needed. In the near future we hope to provide your project as much human resource we have available. keep in touch and the good work.
best regards,
your friends in Haiti.
HABB Staff
I am a houswife but would love to give somehow to Haiti. Thank you Patricia and everyone else for all you are doing for the people there. Is thery anyway that I can help? Does anyone know of ways I could help? Thank You
Nancy, if you would like to donate money, you can go to the GiveLove website and donate there. There are also several partner orgs that work with Give Love, such as Grassroots United, who you can donate to, or if you have some other way to help, you can contact them through their website, or contact Give Love and ask them for ways that you might be able to help. There is a contact page at the above website.
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