Help For Haiti from Harney!

This coming weekend, January 30th & 31st, the shop will donate 5% of our total
sales to the American Red Crossto help with the relief effort in Haiti.
Come help us do what we can for our neighbors!
Visit Harney's Tea Shop Blog for Full Details!

An Update From Sweet Leaf

A few posts ago I mentioned Haiti Relief Efforts from Sweet Leaf...since then I have been in contact with one of the girls at the company and she's updated me on their efforts and progress in their fundraiser - see below...

I just wanted to give everyone an update on the fundraiser. We're still collecting funds from some of the other businesses that participating, but in total, we'll have raised more than $6000 that can go to immediate use thanks to everyone's efforts. It was amazing to see everything come together so quickly - thank you all so much!!

The money basically fills three large vans or small planes full of food, water, and medical supplies, along with other miscellaneous needs. Here's one example of a van-load of supplies that Makarios put together:

20 tarps
300 diapers
120 bags of oatmeal
15 cases of water
240 pounds of salamis
228 pounds of powdered milk
20 containers of cooking oil
30 cans of beans
75 pounds of rice
15 boxes baby cereal
Antibiotics and painkillers for 80 people
an assortment of other medical supplies

You can also follow Makarios' updates on their homepage at:

http://makariosinternational.org/

Sweet Leaf Tea has donated to Feed The Children

Read more about their efforts here

Tavalon Tea and Serenity for Haiti

Tavalon is also participating in fund raising efforts for Haiti. They’re donating 40% proceeds for the Serenity Blend sales to help. Details here: http://tavalon.com/blog/?p=462

Teavana donates to Help Haiti

Every donation up to $20,000 will be doubled by Teavana and rushed by CARE into Haiti to help. This help is vital to rescuing those trapped in the rubble as well as helping the survivors to rebuild their lives.
Read the whole post from their official blog HERE