"Dancing With The (This Is It) Stars" -- to help Haiti.

I was privileged to join Flash Mob America in a public performance of Michael Jackson's 'They Don't Really Care About Us', held recently at the beautiful Hollywood & Highland square, next to the Kodak Theatre, where the Oscars are held each year. That's me on the right hand side of the mob, about 4th row back, with short, curly blonde hair, black pants and black sweater with white rope and blue/grey pattern. We had about 80 dancers in total, raising over $3,000 for Haitian relief.

Travis Payne, choreographer for Michael's This Is It concert and two of the dancers from the show, Daniel Celebre (from Nobleton, Ontario!) and Dres Reid led us in the dance, with the choreography Travis and MJ had created for that piece in the show. It was an experience I'll always treasure; a huge honor and enormous fun to dance with them, and then have the chance to chat afterwards. The guys were super, and very effusive in speaking about their experiences working with MJ.

Daniel grew up in town near to mine in small town Ontario, so we had one of those "How did we end up here?" moments. He's a sweet guy and so gracious and happy about sharing the joy this job brought his way. Thank you and God bless you, Dan!

The CBS program 60 Minutes, did an update on relief efforts in Haiti. The need for help is still so great. Over 50,000 children are orphaned or still separated from their families. Virtually all schools and orphanages were destroyed. If you'd like to continue helping, donations are still needed through organizations such as the Red Cross (www.redcross.ca), Oxfam (www.oxfam.org) and World Vision (www.worldvision.ca). You will help so many people!

These are difficult to watch, but I'm including two pieces from the program 60 Minutes about conditions in Haiti, the first made 5 days after the quake, the second aired March 21. You can see how badly they continue to need our help -- and will for years to come.

1) 5 Days after quake: http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6108550n
2) March 21 - Lost Children of Haiti:http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6320973n&tag=contentMain;contentAux

Peace & Blessings
Annabel