Haiti - Girlguiding UK's response
The recent earthquake in Haiti has left
communities devastated and millions injured and homeless. News from
the Association Nationale des Guides d’Haiti has been limited but
so far positive, with International Commissioner Leticia Cadet
confirming that she and the Guides she is in contact with are safe
and ‘trying to help as much as we can’.
Helping out
Girlguiding UK will offer money to the Guides
d’Haiti through our Guide Friendship Fund to help support guiding
following the earthquake. If you would like to help the relief
effort, please donate money to a disaster relief charity such as
The British Red
Cross or Save the Children.
The WAGGGS World Thinking Day
Fund’s 2010 Global Action Theme is girls worldwide say, ‘together
we can end extreme poverty and hunger’ and Haiti is one of five
countries being highlighted. The World Thinking Day Fund supports
the work of WAGGGS globally so it is not exclusively dedicated to
Haiti or disaster relief. However, part of the funding raised this
year will go to Haiti and specific guiding projects there.
You can find details about Haiti and all the
countries being highlighted this year on
WAGGGS' website as well as ideas on fundraising and how the
Fund is used throughout the world.
To donate to the World Thinking Day Fund,
please send a cheque made payable to ‘The Guide Association’
to:
World Thinking Day Fund
Head of Finance
Girlguiding UK
17-19 Buckingham Palace Road
London SW1W 0PT