As you all know, things are really rough in Haiti right now, so ani­ma­tor Howie Shia and his broth­ers decided to use their com­pany to do some­thing to help aid those suf­fer­ing from the earth­quake. They have set up PPF Neigh­bor­hood: over 2 dozen like-minded friends in the inde­pen­dent arts com­mu­nity (both in Toronto and abroad) band­ing together to cre­ate a down­load­able ben­e­fit com­pi­la­tion of music, visual art and photographs.

The project is a third party fundraiser for Doc­tors With­out Bor­ders and all pro­ceeds will go to the vic­tims of the earth­quake. What we hope is that, even if you’ve given already, you’ll feel com­pelled to donate $5 (or more) to help us make a dif­fer­ence in a tragic sit­u­a­tion. In return you will receive 14 tracks of orig­i­nal music and 13 works of visual art and pho­tog­ra­phy, pack­aged neatly in a pdf booklet.

Just go to PPF Neigh­bor­hood where you can pur­chase the album through pay­pal or any major credit card.

Fea­tur­ing a who’s who of award win­ning artists, the project brings together Juno Award Win­ners (and losers), Art Pro­fes­sors, Under­ground Hip Hop­pers, Latin Jazzers, Pop and Elec­tron­ica Dar­lings, as well as Van­guards of Illus­tra­tion, Ani­ma­tion and Pho­tog­ra­phy. It’s an eclec­tic mix of “cre­ative” types who are try­ing to use what they do best to offer a help­ing hand.

Also, the PPF House Neigh­bor­hood will only be avail­able until Feb. 11, 2010, the final day before the Cana­dian Gov­ern­ment closes its pledge to match all pri­vate dona­tions. So please, if you’ve got some time and spare change, check out what we’ve put together and if you like it, tell your friends, fam­ily and colleagues.

More infor­ma­tion on the project and its con­trib­u­tors can be found here.