Amy Millan, Arcade Fire, Plants And Animals, Blink-182, Wyclef Jean Working For Haiti Earthquake Relief

The earthquake which has created a humanitarian disaster in Haiti has prompted celebrities to organize relief efforts through benefit shows, swag and telethons.

Plants And Animals and Amy Millan will headline a benefit show for the Caribbean island nation at Montreal's Club Lambi on Saturday (Jan. 17).

Arcade Fire's Jeremy Gara and Tim Kingsbury will DJ the event with Think About Life vocalist Martin Cesar. Jahnice, Tony Ezzy, Doody Le Tigre, Shapes & Sizes and Vox Sambou will also perform at the gig.

Tickets are on sale now and range from $10 to $20 in price. All proceeds will go towards Partners In Health, who are doing on-the-ground relief work in Haiti.

Arcade Fire urged their fans to donate to Partners In Health earlier this week.

The cast of Nova Scotia's DRUM! will host a benefit show in Halifax at the Metro Centre on Feb. 8 at 7:30 p.m. It's not known who will play the event yet, nor how much tickets will cost, but that information will be announced shortly.

Meanwhile, actor George Clooney will host a telethon to benefit victims of the earthquake in Haiti next Friday (Jan. 22). It will be broadcast on ABC, NBC, HBO, CNN and MTV from 8 to 10 p.m. ET. Clooney is still figuring out who will appear on the show and what charities and relief organizations will be involved.

Blink-182 have designed a special shirt to help with Haitian earthquake relief efforts. The shirt, which features a rabbit carrying Haiti's flag, is up for sale for $15 U.S. (about $15.43 Canadian) through the band's website. All proceeds will go to the American Red Cross and shirts will be shipped next Friday.

Wyclef Jean, who immigrated to the United States from Haiti as a child, has reportedly raised over $2 million U.S. (about $2.1 million Canadian) in text message donations to his Yele Haiti organization since the earthquake happened on Tuesday (Jan. 12) night.

If you're interested, you can text "Yele" to 501501 on your mobile phone to donate five American bones ($5.14 Canadian) to the cause.

"This is apocalypse," Jean told Fox News on Thursday from Port-Au-Prince, Haiti's capital. "The reality here at the airport has nothing to do with what's going on on the ground right now.

"We spent the day picking up dead bodies, all day that's what we did. There's so much bodies in the streets that the morgues are filled up, the cemeteries are filling up. So we participated in picking up the bodies and finding a place that we could put the bodies."

The earthquake, which had a magnitude of 7.0 and was centred just 25 kilometres from Port-Au-Prince, is estimated to have claimed 45,000 to 100,000 lives and affected about three million people.