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Local Businesses' Haiti Relief Efforts

Fusha Home Accents, owned by Marie Claudinette Jean, wife of Wyclef Jean, is collecting supplies and donations for the Yele Foundation.

Main Street South Orange has circulated a notice about South Orange businesses where donations for Haiti relief can be made:

Fusha Home Accents, 2 W. South Orange Ave., 973-378-3330 or 201.994.5346. Through Wyclef Jean's Yele Foundation, Fusha Home Accents (owned by his wife, Marie Claudinette Jean) is collecting supplies and donations to aid victims. Please donate paper plates, cups, plastic utensils, napkins, large cooking pots and spoons, small bottled waters (no gallons please), SOS pads, pencils, notebooks, masks, plastic gloves, latex/non-latex gloves, sheets and pillow cases, pillows, flashlights, diapers, sanitary napkins and other medical supplies. Make checks payable to: Yele Foundation, or visit the Web site to donate. No cash, please. Store hours: Mon-Fri, 10am - 8pm; Sat, 10 am - 1 pm. Bring or send to: Yele Foundation c/o Fusha, 2 W. South Orange Ave., South Orange, NJ 07079  

Eden Marketplace, 1 South Orange Ave., 973-762-5900. Please donate summer clothing and footwear for women, men and children. Also needed are diapers. Collection boxes are located at each store entrance, and donations can be made now through Jan. 31, 2010; bring items any time during hours of operation. Collecting for: New Jerusalem Baptist Church, Irvington, NJ.

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