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In the afternoon of January 12, 2010 a magnitude 7.0 earthquake hit Haiti, directly affected approximately 3 million people and left us all devastated. Now this is an opportunity to help unicef to get all Haitian children back to school by early April.
Please donate to unicef while visiting my poetry & visual art works in this web space or you can join our fundraiser as part of Diversity Night - a night of musical performance and poetry reading - at Physics Department of University of Toronto, 60 St. George St., Rm. 110, on Wednesday 7 April 2010, 6 - 8 pm.
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To give you an idea what can be achieved with your donation, $30 can provide enough pencils and exercise books to equip four classrooms for one month. |
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Let's remember the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti is a children's emergency as nearly 40 per cent of all Haitians are below 15 years of age. Thank you for your donation.
Based on Roshan Khadivi, unicef's efforts working with the Haitian Ministry of Education to set up 150 school tents for earthquake-affected children are critical because education provides children with a sense of safety and normalcy in times of chaos and crisis. In addition to tent classrooms:
unicef has started the distribution of 390 School-in-a-Box kits and 410 recreation kits in 10 rural departments where displaced quake survivors are now living. Each School-in-a-Box kit provides as many as 40 children with exercise books, pens, pencils and other learning materials.
unicef has initiated a full assessment of earthquake damage to Haiti's education infrastructure, approximately 90 per cent of schools in the Port-au-Prince area - and 40 per cent of schools in the southern port city of Jacmel and other stricken localities - were damaged or destroyed. This could mean that as many as 2 million children are being deprived of their right to education.
unicef is also establishing child-friendly early-childhood and primary learning centres equipped with education supplies and learning materials, as well as access to safe drinking water and latrines.
unicef is encouraging community mobilization to ensure that parent-teacher associations in affected areas are involved in the management and revitalization of the learning spaces.
*An official income tax receipt will be issued for all donations $25 or more by unicef.
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