Professional athletes, such as Samuel Dalembert of the Philadelphia 76ers, Pierre Garçon of the Indianapolis Colts and Elvis Dumervil of the Denver Broncos, have numerous relatives in Haiti and are desperately trying to find out if they're okay after the 7.0 magnitude earthquake hit near the capital city of Port-au-Prince. With phone lines down, electricity out, and rescue and relief efforts slow to arrive, it's been a trial for those trying to find answers.

"Aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews. We still have not heard much from them, and my mom is still trying to call them," Garçon told ESPN. "I'm keeping in contact with my mom. It's tough to get in touch with people down there because of the phone lines."

Garçon has been using Twitter to drum up support and hopes to get the NFL to support relief efforts during the playoffs this weekend.

"I heard from my father and got an e-mail he was okay. That was a relief," Dalembert told Yahoo! Sports. "There are so many other people I don't know about, relatives and friends. I'm getting new information all the time. It's just really hard. It's kind of hard to fathom a situation like this, because those people didn't do anything wrong. It's so hard to watch the TV. I feel helpless."

"The worse just got worse," he added. "They don't have the resources or anything that Americans have or other countries have. The country is already in desperate [need of] help. Everybody was in a panic mode. Just dead bodies, people trapped, people stuck in buildings or people who fell through the street cracks."

Welterweight boxing champ Andre Berto is also trying to find out how his relatives are doing. He's received some news, but not all of it has been good.

"I'm devastated by everything currently happening in Haiti," Berto said Wednesday. "As everybody knows, I have a lot of family members in Haiti and proudly represented Haiti in the 2004 Olympic Games. Like many other Haitian Americans, my family and I are working to reach my loved ones. From what we have learned to this point, some of my family members are still missing, and we have already been informed that members of my family have passed away in the earthquake."

Haitian athletes are urging people to donate to the relief effort by texting "YELE" to 501501, and $5 will automatically be charged to your wireless account. The money goes to Wyclef Jean's Haitian charity, Yéle Haiti. You can also text the word "HAITI" to 90999, and a donation of $10 will be billed to your cell phone account and made to the Red Cross in support of the earthquake relief efforts.