Frustrated family and friends look to aid, contact Haiti

Frustrated family and friends look to aid, contact Haiti

In Brooklyn, Savoir Faire Music shop has become a meeting place for people trying to connect with the Haiti and "feeling frustration":http://fieldnotes.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2010/01/13/2173029.aspx. Hantz Brizard, is desperate for news of his 80 year old father. "I guess the world is with us. We can't do it alone," said Brizard. It's a sadness that echoes through New York City, Little Haiti, home to nearly 120,000 Haitians. Ricot Dupuy, station manager at Radio Soleil, has slept only an hour and has been answering calls from distraught listeners. "I said, please, don't cry and I had to cry myself," said Dupuy. In Miami, children of Haitian immigrants at St Mary's school are doing what they can for now. Praying. What I saw today was pain in many faces of my children, my students... Especially one of them who has his father in Port Au Prince and has no news," said teacher Florence Clerval. Haitian-born entertainer Wyclef Jean is using the Internet to raise money, and people are answering the call. Back in New York a food drive is just getting started. Supplies that Soleil Laurent, hopes that they might help 200 children at Marnatha Orphanage near Port Au Prince. "I don't know if some are alive or some are dead. I don't know anything and honestly it's eating me up," said Soleil Laurent.