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House of Blessings - 02/03/2010 12:20
As our House of Blessings is based in Cap-Haïtien, they thankfully escaped the worst damage of the earthquake. But the devastation of Port-au-Prince has had far-reaching consequences. Many of the staff at House of Blessings have welcomed their relatives fleeing the rubble-filled Port-au-Prince, as most also mourn the loss of family members killed in the quake. Further aftershocks combined with the heavy rains caused a landslide in Cap-Haïtien, killing four children in a local primary school. One of those children was sadly the eight year old daughter of Dr Toussaint, our partners medical director. Although so many staff have been badly shaken by the events of the last two months, they have more than proved their dedication to the children at House of Blessings by their commitment to continue coming into work every day. Less than a year after opening our House of Blessings, we are already supporting 55 disabled "Regina is 3 years old. Everything she had ever known was destroyed in the earthquake in Port-au-Prince. Her home is now a pile of rubble, her mother was found dead under the broken bed. One of many orphans now in Port-au-Prince, Regina was lucky enough to have other relatives to take care of her. They took her from Port-au-Prince and travelled up to Cap-Haïtien to beg for help from the local church. Thankfully, through the work we have been doing with the local churches, the pastor there noticed that Regina was disabled and knew to refer her to our House of Blessings. "The pastor is now working with the family to support Regina. She comes to our House of Blessings three days a week for physiotherapy and other support. Containers from the UK should be arriving shortly with much needed supplies which can be given to help Reginas family." Regina...
Transform the life of a child... - 02/03/2010 11:32
...by remembering Jubilee Action in your will. The UK public are very generous when it comes to charitable giving. In fact, 74% of the UK population donate to charity and 35% of the UK population say that they would leave a gift in their will once their loved ones had A lot of people think that leaving a legacy to charity is something only the very wealthy do. But the reality is that without the gifts that people leave in their wills to charity, many would not survive. If we all left some money to charity in our wills, the Please help heal the damaged and the broken by remembering Jubilee Action in your will. Join us in our belief that the children of today are the potential leaders of tomorrow. Invest in their future and enable them to realise their full potential. Of course we know that you will If you would like us to send you more information about how you can remember Jubilee Action in your will, please contact Shona Jones for more information on: 01483 230 250 or email her at: shona@jubileeaction.co.uk...
Children in Port-au-Prince - 02/03/2010 11:13
7 weeks on from the devastating earthquake which demolished huge swathes of the capital of Haiti and killed an estimated 230,000 people, millions have been left homeless. The last couple of months have been perhaps the worst disaster in all the rocky history of Haiti. In the aftermath of the As time ticks on, the imminent rainy season becomes more of a problem. Already the rains have caused a landslide in Cap-Haïtien which destroyed an elementary school and killed four children, including the young daughter of our partners medical director, Dr Toussaint. Devastating floods in the third largest city of Although the rainy season does not really start for another month, these early rains have been heavy enough to cause problems for the 1.2 million homeless living in rough camps round the outskirts of Port-au-Prince. Living under simple plastic sheets offers no protection from the torrential rain of the Caribbean. There is an opportunity not to be missed here to rebuild Port-au-Prince to better withstand future disasters. However, what are the millions of now homeless inhabitants to do in the meantime? These people simply want to return to their homes and get back to their lives, but it will be Whatever the intentions of the US missionaries arrested in Haiti, it really highlighted some of the issues facing children there. For so many years, children have been at such risk in Haiti, with unknown numbers trafficked across the border to the Dominican Republic, some 25,000 children living on the streets, We want to be helping children like these in the long term. To ensure that we are working where the need is greatest, Caroline will be going to visit Haiti next month to reconnect with her contacts from her previous visit in December. We are not looking to start up...
