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Olivia Wilde is doing some major good!!

Most folks would just stop at doing the minimum of help for those less fortunate around the world, but not Olivia!

Even though she's already a board member for the Artists for Peace and Justice organization, which provides education and health services in Haiti, she wants to work closely with Jeffrey Sachs, the director of research group The Earth Institute, to improve healthcare in Africa!

Here's what she says:

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There's a private golf course in Haiti that has been occupied by earthquake victims for the past three years. Understandably, the owners want that back.

So how do you move the people that are living there, which at one point reached as many as 60,000??

You give $8.75 million to Sean Penn, that's how! Ha!

The government is giving that money to Penn’s J/P Haitian Relief Organization, which will use it to

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And so are we!

Sean Penn has been involved with the reconstruction of Haiti ever since the HUGE earthquake that hit them back in January 2010, and considering that he's the CEO of aid group J/P Haitian Relief Organization, he can't believe how many "extraordinary" changes have happened.

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When it comes to building houses for those in need, no one does it like former President Jimmy Carter!

So of course when Garth Brooks wanted to help others he decided to volunteer with Habitat for Humanity!

He joined the hundreds of volunteers who have built over 100 homes in the Port-au-Prince area, hardest hit by the big Haiti earthquake.

People just think that because it's out of the news, the problem is over, but many are still living without proper homes!

The CEO for Habitat for Humanity said:

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As we previously mentioned, Jillian Michaels recently became a mother of two when her partner, Heidi Rhoades, gave birth to a son and Jillian finally officially adopted her daughter Lukensia from Haiti.

It was a long, lonnnnnng adoption process.

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Famous trainer Jillian Michaels, who was recently on the cover of Women's Health, is taking some time off from TV to start a family!

After an incredibly long adoption process, Jillian has finally

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You do not want to see Sean Penn angry, and he's angry — he's angry that the media and whole world has abandoned Haiti after their natural disaster.

And he isn't wrong.

Here's what he said:

"It's not only celebrities who went for a day. It's the whole [expletive] world. It's all of you. The reason we have Haiti fatigue is because there was never a commitment in the first place."

He even called upon Obama to meet with Haiti's new President, Michel Joseph Martelly:

"It's time our elegant and formidable president stood side by side [with Martelly]."

While we agree that the media's attention is diverted really easily, we also have to say that there have been other natural disasters to happen outside of Haiti, like the tsunami in Japan. This does NOT excuse abandoning one for the other, but rather, maybe our attention is spread too thin.

And we honestly do not have an answer on how to fix it.

What we do know, is, that there are way too many people in this world who need help, and the only way we can lower that number is to dig in and start helping!

We just all need to do what we can.

You can start by visiting the American Red Cross HERE.

[Image via WENN.]

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