Thursday, January 14, 2010



HOW TO HELP


The Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) is already taking donations through a special phone line, 0370 60 60 900, and through its website www.dec.org.uk, and tomorrow it expects to launch a television appeal.

A spokesman said major UK broadcasters including the BBC, ITV, Sky, Channel 4, Channel 5 and Al-Jazeera have agreed to broadcast the appeal.

A DEC spokesman said giving money was the best way to help so supplies could be purchased as close as possible to the disaster area and sent straight to those in need.

He said, where possible, emergency supplies would be bought in areas of Haiti which are not affected by the disaster.

If that was not possible, aid agencies would turn to the Dominican Republic and then the US.

Some aid agencies have already started trying to help those in affected areas but the spokesman said: "The aid effort isn't on the scale that's required and we need people's help to scale it up urgently."

Money raised from DEC's Haiti Earthquake Appeal will support the efforts of the DEC's members, which are the major UK aid agencies.

The 13 member agencies are Action Aid, British Red Cross, CAFOD, Care International UK, Christian Aid, Concern Worldwide, Help the Aged, Islamic Relief, Merlin, Oxfam, Save the Children, Tearfund and World Vision.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1243176/Haiti-earthquake-16-Brits-missing-horrifying-new-pictures-reveal-extent-destruction.html#ixzz0ccbo4fXe

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