Faculty, students and staff on the Madrid campus have raised more than $1,500 for Jesuit Refugee Services. In addition, employees in Madrid have collected a roomful of supplies (water, blankets, clothing, baby formula and more). Student volunteers haver already started sorting the items to send to Haiti as part of an effort by Iberia Airlines and its employee nongovernmental organization, Mano a Mano, to dispatch relief flights to Haiti.
Donations raised on the Madrid Campus are being sent to the Jesuit Refugee Service ("JRS"), which is the main vehicle through which the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) is channeling aid to those devastated by the recent earthquake. JRS has already gotten many truckloads of material into Haiti, and have set up a number of bases of operations both in the Port-au-Prince area and in neighboring Dominican Republic. The JRS's response is organized into the following aspects: health, organizing volunteers, communications, and reconstruction. These efforts are being coordinated with those of other religious organizations and NGOs.
Individuals may also, of course, donate directly. While there are many trustworthy and "proven" aid agencies, it is a scandal that there are also unscrupulous and self-erving ones. Listed below are three organizations who, in addition to JRS, have repeatedly demonstrated that they are worthy channels of aid: