{"id":183765,"date":"2010-01-15T11:38:59","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T16:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=88875"},"modified":"2010-01-15T11:38:59","modified_gmt":"2010-01-15T16:38:59","slug":"wyclef-jean-yele-foundation-text-campaign-raises-1-million-for-haiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/183765","title":{"rendered":"Wyclef Jean Yele Foundation Text Campaign Raises $1 Million For Haiti"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Wyclef Jean and his Yele Haitian Earthquake Fund have raised over $1 million for victims of this week’s natural disaster with a text-based campaign in which cell phone users send “Tele” to 501501 for an automatic $5 donation. <\/p>\n

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The Haitian-born former Fugee is in Port-au-Prince, helping rescue workers clear the streets of dead bodies from a scene he describes as “The Apocalypse.”<\/p>\n

“We spent the day picking up dead bodies, all day that’s what we did,”<\/em> Jean told FOX News in a telephone interview on Thursday. “The count is not 100,000 — there’s at least, has to be four to five hundred thousand people that is about to die.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Wyclef says Haiti needs to raise a million dollars a day.<\/p>\n

“We have to raise a million dollars a day. In four or five days, this whole country is going to be in chaos. We are calling for a state of emergency,”<\/em> he said. “Many people have already reached out to see what they can do right now. We are asking those interested to please do one of two things: Either you can use your cell phone to text “Yele” to 501501, which will automatically donate $5 to the Yele Haiti Earthquake Fund (it will be charged to your cell phone bill), or you can visit www.Yele.org and click on DONATE.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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Wyclef Jean and his Yele Haitian Earthquake Fund have raised over $1 million for victims of this week’s natural disaster with a text-based campaign in which cell phone users send “Tele” to 501501 for an automatic $5 donation. The Haitian-born former Fugee is in Port-au-Prince, helping rescue workers clear the streets of dead bodies from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}