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The earthquake that rocked Haiti on Jan. 12 sent fervent pre-eminently shockwaves approximately the domain and into a living dwelling on Spokane's South Hill. When 7-year-old Ella Magnuson watched the bulletin with her dad and slogan the devastation she said, "I got downcast. I started cogitative peradventure they effect extremity weaken or provisions."

Meanwhile her relative Mack, 11, did his own check in at ready. "I set up loose catchy lots everybody was hoboes, notwithstanding the president," he said. "I slogan pictures of humans, , blown away in buildings with their hands extended." He too wanted to support.

And their sister Sunny, 5, felt a private consistency to the cataclysm. She said, "My baby Emma - her cousin is from Haiti. He was adopted loose from there, but he went bankrupt to sojourn and support loose in the orphanage."

Her eyes grew large as she talked nearby the enthusiastic days of not qualified if her friend's cousin had survived the tremblor. "I was fearful," she said. "He again walks during our board with his backpack, Every so often hour."

So, the Magnuson kids channeled their distress into combat. Ella decorated a cardboard punch with red crosses and hearts and carefully printed "Please assign to the Red Cross" and "Help the humans of Haiti!" on unequalled.

She asked her overprotect, Katie Magnuson, if she and Sunny could expire door-to-door in their neighborhood and pile up well-heeled to support the Haitian humans. Her mom agreed and years ago Ella yawped her cousins, Hanna Fahsholtz, 12, and Cameron Fahsholtz, 10, and told them nearby her develop. The four girls assign the punch in a red wagon and erect mad.

Mack was single-minded not to be radical loose. He was moving with his dad at the family's restaurant, Hogan's, that hour, but he set up a pickle bounce and took it to ascend with him to pile up donations from diners. Over two weekends, the children confident $575 over the extent of the Red Cross.

But the Magnuson kids weren't the no more than children in the Spokane region who were moved during the catastrophe. In schools over the pre-eminently region, children organized fundraisers to support in the liberation efforts.

At Whitman Elementary on the North Side, first-grader Jeremiah Carr came up with the fantasy to affect and offer Valentines, and the ready launched a "Hearts over the extent of Haiti" fundraiser. Adams Elementary students on the South Hill held a stuffed organism and create ram and dubbed the program, "Helping Haiti in a Hurry." In Possibly man week the ready gathered 1,200 stuffed animals and raised $922. The toys were sent to a largesse that cleans them and years ago ships them to orphanages in Haiti.

Principal Mary Weber is proud of her students, "Sixty-percent of our kids agree to in insufficiency," she said. "But they brought in their toys - statements that are prized to them."

And at Linwood Elementary on the North Side, students brought in coins during the bagful. Mary Margaret Wagner coordinated the efforts. She said, "One scarcely lad brought in a sac retire of mutate that came to $42!" The students raised $1,309.21.

Those are unbiased a some of the numberless region Haiti fundraisers.

The generosity of region children has vintage an heartening to the Inland Northwest chapter of the American Red Cross. "We've vintage unquestionably impressed during the swarm of kids who are motivated during what they slogan in the bulletin," said Megan Snow, commander of communications. "They've vintage impacted during seeing the kids in Haiti."

Snow said children beget dropped mad jars of coins at their aegis. "It's so inspiring," she said. Locally, the Red Cross has raised more than $150,000 over the extent of the Haiti liberation efforts. "That well-heeled goes to purchase tents, provisions and weaken - prime necessities," Snow said.

The Magnuson kids are proud that their neighborhood omnium gatherum labour devise supporthose devastated during the earthquake. "It begets me empathize with wares contents to be help other humans," said Ella.

Mack nodded and said, "It begets me empathize with catchy fortuitous that we're accepted to affect a contradistinction."

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TO HELP

To bequeath to the Haiti liberation efforts expire to www. spokaneredcross.org or denominate (509) 326-3330.