There’s a ball tonight and a Haiti Fest tomorrow at Whelans.  ‘Haiti Week’ may be coming to an end – but not without a finale…All week, volunteers have been having fun and raising funds for Haiti… and interviewed for 98FM News, Anne Maguire from the charity HAVEN says there’s still lots more to do.  You can find out more from clicking on the photo above.

Hundreds of companies have been playing ‘pass the parcel’ all over the city – having fun, and raising funds for Haiti….and other supporters have played ‘Host for Haiti’ cooking Haitian food and serving it up to their friends – at a price!  It’s part of a whole series of events dreamed up for ‘Haiti Week’.    ’Pass the  Parcel’ sends a parcel with a pledge form around Dublin from company to company – with the help of Cyclone Couriers.

It’s two years since the massive earthquake that hit Haiti, claimed over 300-thousand lives and left more than 1.5 million other people without a place to live.   24 months on, Paul O’Brien from Concern says it’ll be some time yet before normality resumes and earlier this month at the Mansion House in Dublin, Seven Irish and International charities as well as several Irish business leaders came together to announce the first ever ‘Haiti Week’…which is now underway.

Haiti Week was officially launched in Dublin in October by President Bill Clinton and runs from the 21st to the 28th of January,  to raise funds and awareness of Haiti through art, music and the business community, and to celebrate a special island that is bravely struggling to meet a range of challenges.

Haiti Week is a joint initiative between seven charities led by Haven www.havenpartnership.com and Soul of Haiti www.soulofhaiti.ie with support from Concern Worldwide, UNICEF Ireland, Goal, Plan Ireland and Habitat for Humanity Ireland.

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