I just returned on a red-eye from selling our contract printing at the PPAI show in Las Vegas. I was awakened from sleeping this afternoon by a call from the mother of a classmate of one of my kids. She was trying to find 500 orange t-shirts for doctors to wear in Haiti, they will allow the doctors to be identified. Planes are heading down there Monday with medical folks from Partners in Health that can help with the horrendous medical situation there.

The plane is going early Monday and so they needed the shirts now. As you know, shirt warehouses are not open on weekends. I had Steve Valeri’s cell, he runs NES Clothing. I called him and within five minutes he had reached his Warehouse Manager Greg who agreed to open up and grab the shirts.

It is a tiny tiny effort in what must be a herculean effort to help Haitians. Haitians needed our help before the earthquake, what they need now is almost unfathomable.

I have had customers need shirts in what they describe as an “emergency” and usually it is about making money. That all seems silly compared to what these shirts are being used for. It puts all other “emergencies” in new perspective.

Partners in Health were a major positive force in Haiti before the earthquake and they are one of the best charities in general. They are a good start in a place to send your donations to help the Haitian people:  go to PIH.org for their main page, or we set up a page to track garment industry donations to Partners in Health:

http://act.pih.org/page/outreach/view/haitiearthquake/RickRothMI