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Sarah Palin Will Be In Haiti This Weekend

Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin is scheduled to be Haiti this weekend to aid humanitarian efforts.

A member of Sarah Palin staff confirmed Thursday that Palin, the 2008 vice presidential nominee and a potential 2012 presidential contender, planned to travel to Haiti with the Rev. Franklin Graham as part of the outreach of his Samaritan's Purse relief organization.

Here is a clip from a news release about Sarah Palin's Visit to Haiti from the official website of Billy Graham Evangelistic Association:

December 10, 2010 - Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is scheduled to accompany Franklin Graham on a trip to Haiti this weekend to help highlight the desperate needs in the country.

"I am pleased that Gov. Palin will accompany us on a brief trip to Haiti this weekend and I appreciate her willingness to visit Haiti during such troubled times," Graham said. "I don't know of any people in recent years who have suffered more, and in such a short period of time, than the people of this small country--with an earthquake, a hurricane, and now a cholera epidemic. I believe Gov. Palin will be a great encouragement to the people of Haiti and to the organizations, both government and private, working so hard to provide desperately needed relief."

Palin staffer Rebecca Mansour said, via the Huffingon Post, plans called for Palin to be joined by her husband, Todd, and, Mansour believed, daughter Bristol as well.

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J Ng says...

i am with you a thousand percent.

Haiti does not need hand outs. People need to be supported to rebuild their lives.

Jobs, business opportunities, opening the market for the country, fight corruption; these are great steps to get the nation on its feet again.

The nations should turn their hearts to this

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Miejo says...

NOT CHARITY PLEASE!

please give us job, we need work, we need to rebuild our dignity back,

charity for how long?

we need to educate our childrend
we need to rebuild our home
give us job so we can pay you back, not charity

charity for how

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Joseph Sosthene Geffrard says...

If Sarah Palin wants to help the people of Haiti, she can donate some of her millions to orphanages, hospitals, good organizations, and people in general.

If she's going to Haiti to put stuff on her reality show, and if this lands on her reality show, I along with millions of people on facebook will publicly call her a very stupid woman, exploiting very poor and desperate people in desperate conditions.

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Ronald Altieri says...

Sisters and Brothers,

Is not it wonderful that we have a dignitary from the US government sophisticated high-profile-circle visiting our lovely little motherland.

The exciting buzz is that Senator Joseph Lambert will be escorting her - as a distinguished member of her entourage - to show her how clean the streets are, as a result of his sanitary initiative to clean up of Haiti after the earthquake.

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Peter says...

This is not what those people need now i truly think they need somebody to help with the cholera provide them right medicine, they need help the government don't care try to get their own people to be president.They need some changes over

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Miejo says...

WE NEED JOBS PLEASE, NO MORE CHARITY WE NEED JOBS PLEASE
WE NEED TO BUILT OUR HOME AND HAVE TO PAY FOR IT EVEN IF WE HAVE TO TAKE 40 YEARS, WE NEED JOBS NOT CHARITY! SO WE CAN BUILD OUR DIGNITY, WE NEED JOB!
STOP CHARITY GIVE

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Miejo says...

LI LE LI TAN POU AYISIYEN PENSE POU KO'L,
QUAND ON PENSE TOUJOURS POUR VOUS, ALORS VOUS N'AVEZ PAS LA RESPONSABILITE DE PENSER POUR VOUS.

IL EST TEMPS QUE L'HAITIEN S'OCCUPE DE SON AVENIR !

STOP, PLUS DE CHARITE, NOUS VOULONS DU TRAVAIL! SISPAN CHARITE BAY TWAVAY!

KABWIT KI GEN TWOP MET MOURI NAN SOLEY !
MWEN PA VLE CHARITE, MWEN VLE TWAVAY! MME PALIN CHARITE NON, TWAVAY

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Bob Shook says...

This fall, Convoy of Hope will break ground on a 35,000- square- foot warehouse just outside of Port-au-Prince- which will hold up to six million meals.

Currently they feed 21,000 school children daily.

Samaritan's Purse under Franklin Graham's

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Jorie says...

That'a a smart move. We appreciate her support.

Haiti is open to everyone who wants to

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Jean says...

Sarah Palin ap ale Haiti pou reson humanitaire LOL, se pa zefe election Sarh Palin pral regle.

Ki kote ou li

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