Nike has joined the outpouring of support after Haiti’s earthquake with a tee shirt designed by Haitian-American students in Florida. Check out the details below…

Over a month has passed since the devastating earthquake the shook the small island of Haiti and captivated the entire world. Many countries were quick to lend hands, but in dire situations like these, emotional support is also welcome. Nike Basketball took a trip to Forest Park Elementary School in Southern Florida, a school with a 60% Haitian population, to create a piece of artwork meant sent a message of hope, love and empathy to the Haitian people. The tag line reads ‘Kinbe Pa Lage’, which translates to ‘Hold on tight, don’t let go’. The artwork was placed on a Nike Basketball t-shirt, and was placed for sale at $25 a piece at Nike retailers, with all proceeds going to Mercy Corps and Architecture for Humanity, two of Nike’s partners in the Haitian Relief Effort.

Click the images below for a few more shots of the shirt….

The shirt is available for purchase now at NikeBasketball.com.

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It’s likely that by now you’ve heard about the “We Are The World” remake commissioned by Quincy Jones and Wyclef Jean, especially since Dom posted a bit about it last week. Well, the single is now ready for the world. Check out the video, featuring everyone you can think of, below…

The single is available for purchase now, with all proceeds going towards the relief efforts in Haiti. Click here to buy it on iTunes.

Another cover that hasn’t gotten as much press as the “We Are…” effort is the Simon Cowell-organized “Everybody Hurts” charity single. Check out that video, featuring some of the best artists in the UK, below….

Purchase “Everybody Hurts” by clicking here.

Check out a list of the artists involved after the jump…

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One of, if the best, photoblogs on the internet is Boston.com’s The Big Picture. They recently put together a piece on the continuing aftermath of Haiti’s earthquake. Check out a sampling of the photos below…

Tomorrow (Feb. 2nd) will mark three weeks since the massive January 12th earthquake in Haiti, and tent cities remain full, even as some businesses and factories are beginning to reopen in Port-au-Prince. Now that massive amounts of aid have arrived, distribution problems have cropped up and are being addressed. The World Food Program has begun a new system of delivering rice to 10,000 Haitians per day at each of 16 women-only distribution points around the city - restricted to women, since young men often muscle their way to the front of distribution lines, and the women are viewed as more likely to fairly divide up the food. Aid chiefs and donor nations are warning that Haiti will need at least a decade of painstaking reconstruction.

For the full gallery, featuring 40 photos, click here: The Big Picture: Haiti three weeks later.

They also put together an earlier piece, with 46 photos, after the earthquake struck. For that feature, click here: The Big Picture: Faces of Haiti.

DONATE: Text ‘Yele’ to 501501, ‘Haiti’ to 90999 or directly through yele.org and redcross.org.

Quincy Jones and Lionel Richie assembled an all star line-up of who’s who of artists for the remake of “We Are The World” for Haiti. The full single is slated to be aired on Super Bowl Sunday.

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I mentioned a while back that Wyclef and Mavado collaborated on the Hold On track back in the late fall of 2009. The track was already well suited for the disaster but its been altered again to speak to the quake victims in Haiti.