 Two of the top Haitian entertainers performed at the Green Planet Movie Awards: Conga drummer Azor and singer/dancer Sara Renelik.
You can provide support towards building Haiti by purchasing gourmet Haitian coffee or taking part in an art auction featuring paintings by Haitian artists.
 The Green Planet Movie Awards Co-organizer Anaheim University is helping our humanitarian efforts by playing a part in Haitian relief and rebuilding. The Green Planet Movie Awards Organizing Committee have selected Anaheim University Executive Advisory Board Member Ambassador Marcel Duret to serve as an advisor to our committee on relief and restructuring in Haiti.Ambassador Duret began his career as an actor on Broadway and received his higher education in the United States. He later returned to his homeland, Haiti, where he worked in both the for-profit and non-profit sectors, and was extremely active as a community leader prior to being selected as the Haitian Ambassador to Japan where he served from 1991 to 2003. During this extended period Ambassador Duret gained a reputation for being an enthusiastic and action-oriented ambassador, who worked with government, the non-profit sector and corporate Japan raising funds, securing donations and arranging for educational scholarships in an effort to forward the lives of the Haitian people.
It is the hope of the Green Planet Movie Awards Organizing Committee to provide not only temporary relief to Haiti but also to help create long-term solutions to humanitarian issues and development problems that have existed in Haiti for many years. Since the January 2010 earthquake, Ambassador Duret has reported a great loss in Haiti both on a personal level, losing his family's home originally built in 1917, and as a citizen of Haiti having to see all of the suffering that the Haitian people are experiencing.
 Although Ambassador Duret is very grateful for all of the concern that the world is showing Haiti at this moment, in his most recent written correspondence he expressed concern over the idea of temporary relief. He has asked us to consider from the outset permanent solutions that will help to ease the ongoing suffering of the Haitian people and to provide development opportunities for Haiti. It is his suggestion that temporary relief shelters be constructed with long-term applications in mind. For example, rather than erecting a large tent to be used as temporary shelter, he suggested that it would be more beneficial for the Haitian people if a permanent structure were created as a shelter, enabling the beginnings of an infrastructure to be in place once the emergency relief efforts have concluded. These shelters, if planned correctly from the outset, could be easily converted into hospitals, schools, and for other uses that can help to forward the plight of the Haitian people.
Haiti has suffered for many years and it has taken a catastrophe to bring the world's attention back to the problems that Haitian people face. It is now our responsibility to stand by the people of Haiti to provide as much temporary relief as possible and to support the rebuilding and development efforts that we hope will someday reduce the suffering and bring peace and prosperity to the region.
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