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Donate $5 To Haiti Relief and Spirit Airlines Will Give You a Free Flight

January 14, 2010 at 11:30 AM | by | Comments (3)

All day today and yesterday, ways to do your part to help the victims of the devastating earthquake in Haiti have been publicized on Twitter, Facebook, and on the news. Even celebrities are throwing their weight behind some of the text-to-donate schemes, but how can you be sure it's all legit?

Unless you really do the research, it's all a crapshoot with those texting charities and money boxes at gas stations, so we're throwing our weight behind the charity efforts of an airline, of course. Specifically Spirit Airlines, who will give you enough loyalty miles for a free flight if you donate only $5 to Haiti by January 17.

On their website, you can login or sign up for the Spirit Airlines frequent flyer program (Free Spririt) for free, and then choose who you'd like to donate to: The Red Cross, UNICEF, or Wyclef Jean's charity Yéle Haiti. After completing the donation form and sending at least $5 to the charities, Spirit will credit your account with 5,000 miles if you're among the first 200,000 to do so, which is enough for a roundtrip flight if you have the Spirit Mastercard, or half of a one-way flight if you don't. Granted, it'll take 6-8 weeks for the miles to drop into the account, but it's for a good cause. Go here to participate and donate.

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· HaitiRelief [Spirit Airlines]
· A Man with a Radio is all that's left of the airport in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti [Jaunted]
· Spirit Airlines News [Jaunted]

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Red Cross a crapshoot?

The Red Cross, Clinton Foundation and Yele are hardly crapshoots and there's no research to be done other than finding the proper number and word to text: Red Cross: 90999 (text Haiti) Clinton: 20222 (text Haiti) Yele: 501501 (text Yele) Just sayin'.
Mike Barish on January 14, 2010 at 12:11 PM #Permalink

good and bad

We didn't mention any specific text message campaigns, because there are good, legit ones and there are the scam ones. http://lifehacker.com/5447987/how-and-where-to-donate-to-haiti-and-avoid-scams
JetSetCD on January 14, 2010 at 12:24 PM #Permalink
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Yele

I texted to Yele yesterday and it was very legit. They send you a text message back making you aware of the donation process, including a link to their website with terms and conditions. Then you have to text YES if you want to go through with it. They confirm it afterwards but you can opt to cancel it. Which would make you heartless. But that's another story.
juliana on January 14, 2010 at 12:44 PM #Permalink

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