Mobile relief: Americans text aid to Haiti
(AFP)
January 16th, 2010
AFP – They were asked to text HAITI to 90999 or Yele to 501501 and in three days, a million Americans pledged millions of dollars in aid to quake-stricken Haiti using their mobile phones.
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