How donations are helping relief efforts:   Latest update from the American Red Cross Disaster Newsroom: * This is already the largest single-country personnel deployment in global Red Cross history. The number of emergency response teams in or en route to Haiti equals those that responded to the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami – an emergency that spanned 14 countries. * It is clear that what took minutes to destroy will take many years and the collective support from governments and relief a... caseykirk2106 Casey Kirk comment-21647 2010-02-02T23:07:23Z 2010-02-02T23:07:23Z Below are two video updates from American Red Cross Emergency Response Unit team members on the ground in Haiti. Watch to get a sense of how distribution at camp sites is assessed and carried out. CLICK HERE: http://redcrosschat.org/2010/02/01/update-from-the-ground-haiti-earthquake/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+RedCrossChat+%28Red+Cross+Chat%29 The Red Cross is focusing on three areas – food, clean drinking water and other relief items such as hygiene kits, blankets, tarps, sleeping mats, tents and water containers. The relief items are helping more than 10,000 families (50,000 people) to date – with plans to increase this number. About 79 percent of the funds spent or committed by the American Red Cross have been for food and water; 18 percent have been for shelter; and the rest have been for health and family services. Casey Kirk 2010-02-02T23:07:23Z Kati Garner comment-21000 2010-01-21T05:25:06Z 2010-01-21T05:25:06Z Thank you! Kati Garner 2010-01-21T05:25:06Z Lynn Mayugba comment-20958 2010-01-21T01:15:10Z 2010-01-21T01:15:10Z Thank you for the story and link. Lynn Mayugba 2010-01-21T01:15:10Z