Microsoft Launches Free Disaster Relief App

Microsoft Launches Free Disaster Relief App: Microsoft has recently released a new Disaster Relief app that goes under the name HelpBridge. The application is available for iOS, Android and Windows Phone 8. The application allows you to do two things: ask for help and give help. If you ever find yourself in a situation where you need to call for help, you can send a message out via Facebook, SMS and email to a preassigned list of contacts with your location and a message. As of now, the app doesn’t support Twitter. HelpBridge also allows users to alert family and friends that they’re OK after a disaster strikes.

Haiti: United States Has Disbursed $2.5 Billion Since 2010 Earthquake

Haiti: United States Has Disbursed $2.5 Billion Since 2010 Earthquake: he United States has disbursed more than $2.5 billion in Haiti since the earthquake in January 2010, according to a State Department release issued Wednesday.

That number represents disbursements through the end of September 2012. The US had committed more than $3.6 billion toward “relief, recovery and reconstruction” in the same period, it said.

Charity at the top of these slopes | Boston Herald

Charity at the top of these slopes | Boston Herald: hat’s how, just a half-year after the end of one of the toughest financial seasons in ski resort history, the folks in Vermont made things happen, donating close to $100,000 to disaster relief from the storm.