Really, who was the lead engineer on this?

Regardless, great work.

1) Text donations are processed through cell phone company bills and therefore take months to process (i.e., reach people in need): http://money.cnn.com/2010/01/15/technology/haiti_text_donation_delay/index.htm

2) Yele has come under fire recently for irregular payments to non-relief related activities and for general inexperience with disaster relief: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/15/AR2010011504024.html

I highly recommend Partners In Health for several reasons:

1) PIH has decades of experience delivering medical care and other community services in Haiti. When the earthquake hit, they had the only available MD in Port-au-Prince (http://pagingdrgupta.blogs.cnn.com/2010/01/17/the-only-doc/). They know the people of Haiti, its geography, and localized needs. They also have supply lines in place and have been designated as the official provider of medical services by the Haitian government.

2) They have a long history of working through the government and helping build the public sector. Many NGOs drop in aid and then pull out without helping Haiti build the institutions it needs for sustainability.

3) They operate efficiently and transparently, spending 94.8% of their budget on programs and only 5.2% on overhead.
http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=4884

If you’re interested in donating to PIH: https://donate.pih.org/page/contribute/haiti_earthquake?source=earthquake&subsource=homepage