More than 80 million people watch Haiti aid telethon

ShareOver 80 million people tuned in to watch last week’s all-star “Hope for Haiti Now:  A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief” telethon. The Nielsen Co. said Monday that an estimated 83 million people saw at least a brief part of the fundraiser carried Friday on 33 TV networks. The audience watching the two-hour event at [...]

Haiti telethon raises $61 million charity

ShareOrganizers for last week’s “Hoper for Haiti Now” telethon announced they had raised an estimated amount of $61 million on Monday. Backed by George Clooney and Haiti-born rapper Wyclef Jean, the two-hour telethon which aired on Friday, drew an average audience of 24 million viewers in the United States to watch celebrities performing, telling tales [...]

Banks reopen in Port-au-Prince, Haiti

ShareMany bank branches collapsed in the earthquake after the Haiti quake last January 12 and won’t be reopening soon, if ever. But banks that had doors to open did so Saturday, attracting long lines of anxious and sometimes desperate people in a city where ATMs haven’t been working since the earthquake. United Nations troops keep [...]

Telethon raises $57 million for Haiti

ShareThe “Hope for Haiti Now” telethon, a US telethon to help raise funds for Haiti earthquake victims, which led by George Clooney and Haiti-born rapper Wyclef Jean, has raised more than $57 million for relief to the earthquake-ravaged country, organizers said on Saturday. They called the $57 million a record for public donations in a [...]

Rihanna to perform in Haiti telethon

ShareRihanna has said that she too will be performing in the “Hope For Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief” telethon run by the MTV Networks. She is said to perform a new song called “Stranded” with rapper Jay-Z and U2’s The Edge and Bono at Friday’s “Hope for Haiti” telethon in London. During the taping [...]