I’m sure that my readers think I’ve disappeared or totally forgotten about my little home away form home over here at t5m, but I promise I have not. I have all kinds of ideas that I want to work with here and I can’t wait to share them with you. But for today, there’s something a bit more serious to take on.

As I’m sure you know by now, Haiti was hit by back to back devastating earthquakes on January 12. The utter desolation is beyond comprehension and these people are in such desperate need of our help. George Clooney and MTV have worked together to organize the “Hope for Haiti” telethon that will take place in the US tonight.

The telethon will air live and commercial free. The special celebrity appearances, live musical performances and news reports will be airing from New York, Los Angeles and Haiti. Twilight’s own Robert Pattinson will be hosting the London portion of the program which is being recorded this afternoon.

This country and its people need our help so badly. What a wonderful opportunity this is to show that the Twilightfandom is full of heart and concerned about our world. Thinking of Rob, The Fandom Gives Back and Ms.Kathy have been doing an incredible amount of work for this cause. The current total of donations from the fandom stands at nearly $40,000 US dollars.

The two-hour program will begin live tonight in the US at 8pm EST. In the UK it will air live on MTV at 1am GMT. It will be repeated at 9pm on Saturday on both VIVA and MTV. The songs will be available for download on iTunes tomorrow to extend the fundraising even after the telethon is finished.

From Thinking of Rob…

All dona­tions will directly ben­e­fit Oxfam Amer­ica, Part­ners in Health, Red Cross, UNICEF and Wyclef’s Yele Haiti Foun­da­tion. Face­book and MySpace have signed on as offi­cial social-media part­ners to help steer view­ers to the telethon and drive donations.

Addi­tion­ally, the Clin­ton Bush Haiti Fund and United Nations World Food Pro­gramme have joined the list of relief orga­ni­za­tions that will ben­e­fit from the show, with pro­ceeds to be split evenly among each organization’s indi­vid­ual Haiti relief funds. “Hope For Haiti Now” will be the most widely dis­trib­uted telethon in his­tory, inter­na­tion­ally and across media plat­forms, includ­ing live stream­ing glob­ally on sites includ­ing YouTube, Hulu, MySpace, Fan­cast, AOL, MSN.com, Yahoo, Bing.com, BET.com, MTV.com, and Rhap­sody and on mobile via All­tel, AT&T, Sprint, Ver­i­zon, and FloTV.

Please take this opportunity to do something good for the global community and make a donation. It’s also incredibly important to remember your local blood banks. Donating blood is something that’s easy to do and costs you nothing, but can mean the difference between life and death for someone else.

If you like, let us know in the comments what you’ve done to support this cause and help inspire others to do the same. We are large in number and can make a wonderful difference.

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