Anyone interested in supporting alternative communications in Haiti after the quake, suggest that you get in touch with:

WACC:
http://www.waccglobal.org/component/content/article/2172:haiti-communica...

 Dewey Library – JL1090.S76

To donate lights for Haitians, a group in Cambridge is distributing what look  to be Bogolights
(the same brand that http://lighthaiti.org/ is using)  in Haiti:
http://www.earthsparkinternational.org/index.html

Here's a Tech article on how the richest nation in this hemisphere became the poorest, due to US intervention