Today, a caring group of SNHU students organized themselves to start the HICT for Haiti Fund – their singular objective is to collect monies from the ‘public’ and channel them to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) – the “2010 Haiti Earthquake Children’s Appeal” in Malaysia. This UNICEF’s request is part of a United Nations appeal for RM1.9 billion ($562 million), launched January 15, 2010, to facilitate humanitarian operations for the next six months in one of the poorest countries on earth. Funds raised will be used to help children and families who survived the calamitous earthquake that rocked Haiti on Tuesday afternoon, January 12, 2010.
For those of you who are not from this planet, a 7.0 magnitude quake – the biggest recorded in this part of the Caribbean and the largest to hit Haiti in more than 200 years – struck 10 miles south-west of Port-au-Prince.
René Préval, Haiti’s president, has described the devastation after the earthquake as "unimaginable" as governments and aid agencies around the world rushed into action.
Photos from http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2010/jan/17/haiti-natural-disasters?picture=358148413
So, please give to this fund, any amount will do. I appeal to your humanity. I seek your compassion. I pray for your kindness. Contribute what you can.
On behalf of my SNHU students, Arun, Edrickson, and Edric, I thank you for your caring and your generosity!
For more information, please check out “HICT for Haiti” on Facebook. The collection box labeled UNICEF sits outside the CSMD office at HICT. For non-HICT would-be donors, you may contact me if you wish to hand over your monetary contributions.
On behalf of my SNHU students, Arun, Edrickson, and Edric, I thank you for your caring and your generosity!
For more information, please check out “HICT for Haiti” on Facebook. The collection box labeled UNICEF sits outside the CSMD office at HICT. For non-HICT would-be donors, you may contact me if you wish to hand over your monetary contributions.
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