A touching geeky response to the earthquake crisis in Haiti

The Geek Girls Network™, an online resource for women into “geeky” things, & their friends at Geeky Clean have created a fundraiser to try and help the Haitians in their time of need through a program called Geeks With Heart.

The situation in Haiti is very serious as the death toll has risen to roughly 230,000. That’s almost as much as were killed in the tsunami that hit southern Asia not so long ago.

The damage is unfathomable to most of us here in the US. Still, most know the implications of a 7.0 earthquake, especially if most of the houses and buildings in said area aren’t built with proper safety regulations enforced.

It’s believed the extremely devastating effects of the earthquake were due to the fact that the city of Prot-au-Prince was and still is largely underdeveloped and highly populated. The combination of rubble and a large multitude of wounded has made it difficult and very expensive to get everyone the help they need.

So it’s up to those of us who can to help the Haitians to help themselves!

At Assurance Advertising everyone (myself included) has begun donating as much as they can afford to these poor souls through the Geeks With Heart program. We would now like to encourage you to do the same.

Through Mercy Corp, Geeks With Heart has a fundraising goal of $2500 and there’s no minimum for donations. If you can spare just one special cup of coffee, an iTunes download, or a crispy chicken sandwich, donate to Haiti instead. Show Haiti why geeks have heart!

As extra incentive, and not that you need any, once Geeks With Heart reaches $2500, all who donated will have the chance to win a prize from an amazing grab bag of geek prizes!

So donate, tweet it up, put a badge on your website, and tell all your friends and family. Thanks!

Geeks With Heart: http://www.mercycorps.org/fundraising/geekgirls