U.S. President Barack Obama is meeting with former presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton at the White House Saturday to discuss their work to aid the people of Haiti.
Mr. Obama had asked his predecessors to help raise money to fund relief efforts.
Mr. Clinton, a Democrat, and Mr. Bush, a Republican, joined forces to create the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund.
In a post on the fund's Web site(www.clintonbushhaitifund.org) the two men say they are working together to provide "immediate relief and long-term support to earthquake survivors".
The site promises that 100 percent of donations made through the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund will go directly to relief efforts.
Former President Clinton, who is the United Nations special envoy to Haiti, also has been raising money through his "Clinton Foundation".
On Friday, the U.S. government granted special immigration status to Haitians living illegally in the United States, protecting them from deportation for 18 months and allowing them to work.
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano granted "temporary protected status" to Haitian nationals already in the country before the devastating earthquake hit their homeland on January 12.
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