Here is what they did:

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Oct 4 (Reuters) - The Haitian government and a group of businessmen from the poorest country in the Americas on Tuesday offered the United States $36,000 in aid donations for victims of Hurricane Katrina.

The interim authorities in the unstable and destitute country of 8 million people, half of whom survive on a dollar a day, acknowledged the amount was modest.

But Finance Minister Henri Bazin said it was a testimony to the friendship and solidarity between the richest nation in the hemisphere and its poorest neighbor.

"Despite our meager means, we want to be counted among those who showed solidarity toward you (the American people)," Bazin told the top U.S. diplomat in Haiti, Timothy Carney, during a joint news conference.