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By contributing to 2 Life 18 Foundation, Inc., you help continue the work that we all began together following the catastrophe of Katrina -- of saving lives and uplifting the human condition.

2 Life 18 HAITI - Major Donors

Making a Difference each and every day –Saving Lives…
(Please support them whenever possible…)

Irwin Simon, CEO of The Hain Celestial Group (Nasdaq: HAIN),
• Hain- Celestial has delivered over 250 tons of supplies (millions of dollars worth of baby formula, soy milk, rice milk, baby food, water and diapers).
• A continued commitment to keep a steady stream of supplies flowing into Haiti for the next year during the rebuilding process
•  Assisting in freight costs in and out of Florida to Haiti

The Hain Celestial Group (Nasdaq: HAIN), headquartered in Melville, NY, is a leading natural and organic food and personal care products company in North America and Europe. Hain Celestial participates in almost all natural food categories with well-known brands that include Celestial Seasonings®, Terra®, Garden of Eatin’®, Health Valley®, WestSoy®, Earth’s Best®, Arrowhead Mills®, DeBoles®, Hain Pure Foods®, FreeBird™, Hollywood®, Spectrum Naturals®, Spectrum Essentials®, Walnut Acres Organic™, Imagine Foods™, Rice Dream®, Soy Dream®, Rosetto®, Ethnic Gourmet®, Yves Veggie Cuisine®, Linda McCartney®, Realeat®, Lima®, Grains Noirs®, Natumi®, JASON®, Zia® Natural Skincare, Avalon Organics®, Alba Botanica® and Queen Helene® The Hain Celestial Group common stock trades on The NASDAQ® Global Select Market. For their corporate social responsibility report please download a 5.5MB file

Drew Brees, Quarterback of the New Orleans Saints and MVP of Superbowl XLIV Brees Dream Foundation – Drew Brees was the first US Professional athlete that supported 2 Life 18 founder David Perez when requesting support for urgent financial aid to sponsor Helicopter Rescue and Relief missions days after a devastating earthquake hit Haiti, just 15km from the capital. Reaching a magnitude of 7.0, the worst earthquake Haiti has experienced in 200 years. The mission resulted in food, water and medical drops into Leogane and the extraction of a thirteen-year-old girl who suffered major head trauma. She was airlifted to the USS Comfort where she is now out of critical condition and is expected to have a full recovery.

Richard Branson and Virgin Unite Group - In the early weeks of the disaster, Virgin America donated seats on flights departing to Florida for over one week transporting medical personnel and urgent medical supplies to Florida, which then were transferred to the next available private jets or cargo planes going to Haiti. Although the ability for commercial aircraft to land at the only airport serving the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince (PAP) remains limited, Virgin Atlantic and Virgin America continue sending medical supplies, personnel, food and medicine to South Florida. Virgin America carried medical professionals and 40,000 pounds of medical supplies, surgical kits, food and medicine supplied by the California-based nonprofit 2 Life 18 Help and Rescue Foundation Inc. to South Florida for connection on authorized transports to Haiti. 

Virgin America teammates have also initiated a fundraising drive with Virgin Unite (the philanthropic arm of the Virgin Group) for Haitian relief efforts. The generosity and compassion of our colleagues has helped us beat our initial goal – and the tally continues to grow. As of today, flyers can now also contribute to this relief fund while onboard Virgin America via the Red in-flight entertainment platform (guests can donate via credit card swipe at their seat). Please visit the Virgin America/Virgin Unite fundraising page to donate or for more information. 
http://www.virginunite.com/
http://www.virginamerica.com/va/news.do

Nika Water and Jeffrey Church, CEO
• Committed to providing irrigation systems and water treatment systems into a 1,200 person IDP camp in Haiti

Through the sale of premium bottled water, NIKA hopes to bring a voice to the world’s poor who suffer without the basic right to clean water and simple sanitation. By donating 100% of their profits to support clean water projects in impoverished countries, NIKA will provide the basic tools and critical assistance to help thousands of families improve their lives in a meaningful way and end the cycle of poverty. Furthermore, by enlisting today’s newest generation of kids through our Agents of Change program, our goal is to create awareness and knowledge to serve as a catalyst for thousands of youth to get involved in their quest to bring clean water to the impoverished world.

Mindful of their duties as stewards of the Earth, NIKA has been certified as CarbonFree® by Carbonfund.org through our investment in carbon offsetting programs such as a reforestation project in Nicaragua. In addition, NIKA has developed a very unique recycling program where we pay high schools around the country a small fee for each plastic bottle that the school collects and recycles. Through this “One-for-One Recycling Program,” our aim is not only to be plastic bottle neutral, but an advocate of the importance and simplicity of basic recycling as well.

Nika founders are a group of seasoned business executives who have successfully built and expanded for-profit businesses and who now share a common focus of creating social and environmentally responsible businesses that can be used to help solve global problems. The founders have funded all of NIKA’s startup and launch/operating losses and will realize no compensation or economic benefit from NIKA. Please support and visit Nika at: http://www.nikawater.org/

OUR FRIENDS…FAMILY…VOLUNTEERS…PRESS SUPPORT

2 Life 18 Foundation along with hundreds of Volunteers, Friends and Family thank the following organizations, individuals and corporations for their generous support and charitable donations.

Haiti Thanks our Heroes…

Medic Alison Thompson in Haiti, follow her on Twitter

Maria Bello, Actress and women’s rights, children rights advocate and humanitarian, follow her on Twitter

Alan Mentser and Tim Keegan of the Big Heart Brigade for delivering 700,000 MRE’s

Recognition for making a real difference in Haiti…

J/P HRO
1st and Alton
C.A.R.E.
LifeGivingForce
Artists for Peace and Justice
Partners in Health
CDTI Hospital
Compassion Alliance
Convoy of Hope
Enfants Entraide, Free the Children, Les Petits Freres et Petits Soeurs de l’Incarnation
GLOBAL D.I.R.T.
Hope for Haiti
Medishare
Operation Blessing

We are coordinating our relief efforts with NGO’s including:

Angel Wings International
Big Heart Brigade
C.A.R.E. Corporate Aviation Responding in Emergencies (C.A.R.E.)
CARE Haiti
Christ Fellowship Church,
Compassion Alliance
Convoy of Hope
Fishers of Men
Free the Children
Haiti Clinic
Giving Children Hope
GLOBAL D.I.R.T. (Disaster Immediate Response Team)
International Medical Assistance Team
IsraAID
IDF
Jenkins-Penn Haitian Relief Organization
Life Giving Force
Missionary Flights International
Morningstar Christian Academy
Operation Blessing
Project Cure

Special thanks to our volunteers and collaborators including:

Sean Penn, Diana Jenkins and Tanya Harbas of J/P HRO in the US and Haiti
Alison Thompson and Oscar Gubernati of J/P HRO in Haiti
Maria Bello Actress and Humanitarian with J/P HRO and Artists for Peace and Justice
Paul Haggis in support of J/P HRO and with Artists for Peace and Justice
Irwin Simon, Ellen Deutsch, Tony Leis, Jim Meiers of  Hain Celestial
Drew and Brittany Brees and the Brees Dream Foundation
David Cush, Darin Spurgeon and Ross Bonanno of Virgin America Airlines
Richard Branson, Jean Oelwang and Emily Sayer, of Virgin Unite
Gregory and Louise Probert
Linda Neal with Wiseman Burke
Christine Alfonso for The H-Aid-I Action Alliance
Congressman Charlie Melancon and Joe Bonfiglio
Evans and Myrlande Affriany, Angel Wings International
Nicholas van den Brekel (Helicopter Pilot, Captain USMO)
Mark Chariff
Willie Davis (2 Life 18 Board Member, Davis Executive Associates)
Dirk DeSouza, 1st and Alton
José Dominguez
Bobbi Dunphy  Life Giving Force
Robin Eissler of Jet Quest
Alan Feldman (Photography)
Jeff Feldman, 1st and Alton
Barry Frishman
Albert Gomez, 1st & Alton
Craig Greene, M.D. (The Greene Team in Haiti)
Oscar Gubernati (The Third Wave Documentary)
Josue Leconte
Rudy Ganna
Marcie Gilbert
Dr. Barth Green
Jenna Green
Eric Greenwald
Susan Jacobs
Dick Kolt
Bridget Brigitte McDonald, Ph.D. (2 Life 18 Board Member, Bionic Sisters Productions)
Linda Neal, Wiseman Burke
Adam Marlatt (Global D.I.R.T.)
Sophia Martelly
Heather  Mills
Dirk Parvus, M.D. and Chad Parvus (Haiti Clinic)
Ruth and Patrick Purcell (Haiti Clinic)
Jeremy Pivin (Entourage)
Jean-Pierre Prieur (Bionic Sisters Productions)
Madeley and Jimmy Rios (Champion Forklift)
Rotary Club International
Seth Rotman, Chelsea Aviation
Sheila Rockwell (2 Life 18 Board Member)
Todd Shea
Jamieson (Jay) Slough Life Giving Force
Marianne L. Stevenson, President C.A.R.E.  and Strategyaero
Jeff Smith (2 Life 18 Board Member)
Michael and Karen Stone Foundation
Chris Stuart, Encore Sports Entertainment
Jo Ann Wilbert

Resources that we collaborate with for Haiti our missions include:

Americas Generators
Antillean Marine
Champion Forklift
Chelsea Aviation
1st and Alton
Linden Air Cargo
Strategyaero –Aviation services and corporate charters and aircraft management
Turnberry Aviation
Turks Air Cargo
US Coast Guard – KOPF
US Army 82nd Airborne – stationed at Petionville Country Club

OUR FRIENDS…FAMILY…VOLUNTEERS…PRESS SUPPORT

David and Orly Perez along with hundreds of Volunteers, Friends and Family thank the following individuals and companies for their generous support and charitable donations:

A very Special thanks to the A&E Channel, ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, KOGO, KSON, Union Tribune, North County Times, Air America, Readers Digest, Joe Vechio and other News Services for getting the word out to the public. Also, thanks to CNN for their Special coverage “Heroes Among Us”, Fox News – Cavuto on Business with Neil Cavuto, CNBC "The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch", ABC Good Morning America with Charles Gibson, NBC Today Show with George Lewis, The Situation with Tucker Carlson on MSNBC and all the journalists who provided coverage of our efforts with over 50 articles that have been published, touching millions of people across our great country.

Other Organizations that Uplift Humanity

Common Ground www.commongroundrelief.org

Hands on Network www.handsonnetwork.org

Junior Seau Foundation www.juniorseau.org

Jewish Family Services www.jfssd.org

Jenna Druck Foundation www.jennadruck.org

Manchester Family Foundation www.dougmanchester.com

North County NAACP 1086 www.naacp.org

PRC Compassion www.prccompassion.net

San Diego Padres Foundation www.sandiego.padres.mlb.com

San Diego Youth and Community Services www.sdycs.org

Tony and Alicia Gwynn Foundation www.tagwynn.org

Women's International Center www.wic.org

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