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New York – The Fashion Delivers Charitable Foundation Inc. said it is coordinating efforts to send new product donations to Haiti’s many victims of the 7.0 earthquake that struck the country’s capital, Port-Au-Prince, on Tuesday afternoon.

“It has been reported that hundreds of thousands of people may have lost their lives and hundreds of thousands more have been left homeless and without life’s most basic necessities,” the organization said. “Fashion Delivers is mobilizing to provide immediate assistance. We need a broad assortment of lightweight apparel for men and women, such as T-shirts, tops, shirts, jeans, shorts, slacks, sportswear, active wear, etc.”

Additionally, basic clothing items such as underwear, socks, baseball caps, sneakers, sandals and sleepwear as well as sheets in all sizes and throws or lightweight blankets are also needed and being collected.

“Rest assured your product donations of these essentials will reach the victims for which they are intended and will help them cope with this tragedy.  This is a massive humanitarian crisis.  Your donation of product will make the difference in so many peoples’ lives who have lost everything,” the organization noted.

Fashion Delivers anticipates it will begin sending product donations to Haiti by early next week. For more information, interested parties are urged to call the foundation’s offices at (212) 629-6700 or via email at carla@fashiondelivers.org.

Major retailers have also begun offering assistance and aid to Haiti’s earthquake survivors.

Home improvement chain Lowe’s said it will donate $1 million to support the American Red Cross International Response Fund. And all of the chain’s 1,700 stores will serve as donation centers for the American Red Cross.

Target today announced it will donate $500,000 to the American Red Cross, also. In addition, Target Volunteers are working in partnership with students from The Fair School in Minneapolis and ImpactLives, a local nonprofit, to prepare more than 1 million meals to send to Haiti.

Walmart operations around the world and the Walmart Foundation, too, announced a $500,000 monetary donation to the Red Cross emergency relief efforts in Haiti, and the company is also sending pre-packaged food kits valued at $100,000 to Haiti at the request of the Red Cross.

And Amazon.com today said it has established a box on its homepage where customers can contribute to the international relief efforts by Mercy Corps.

source:http://www.hometextilestoday.com/article/CA6715129.html?desc=topstory