My family lived through the 2001 earthquake in Gujarat, India which was of similar proportions. Based on their personal experience, the things immediately needed after an earthquake are:<p>1) Heavy earth moving equipment (to get people out from under the rubble)
2) Tents and blankets (it is cold)
3) Medicines 
4) Food<p>Many organizations only focused on 2 and 4 in India. In the end, there was a glut of food, tents, clothes and blankets and not enough earth moving equipment and many people who could have been saved, died. The situation may be different in Haiti but they are an underdeveloped nation and I doubt they have as much equipment as is needed. I have already seen reports that there's a scarcity: <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/the-monitors-view/2010/0113/Haiti-earthquake-a-call-to-a-common-humanity" rel="nofollow">http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/the-monitors-view/2010/0...</a><p>Obviously medicine is also in short supply.<p>It may be a tall order to organize to get this there but at least we have someone here who has done it before. If dariusmonsef (or anyone else) can vouch for a group on the ground in Haiti who can actually manage these things well, it may be worth the effort to try to borrow these things ourselves and try to arrange for comped air transport.<p>I know some folks in the airline industry who I can ask about transporting the stuff for free.<p>Do you guys think this is doable and worth the effort?