{"id":218949,"date":"2010-01-22T09:37:03","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T14:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oxfam.org.uk\/applications\/blogs\/pressoffice\/?p=10123"},"modified":"2010-01-22T09:37:03","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T14:37:03","slug":"keep-the-haiti-appeal-going-and-take-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/218949","title":{"rendered":"Keep the Haiti Appeal going and take action"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img alignright size-medium wp-image-10125\" style=\"width:180px;\">\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxfam.org.uk\/generationwhy\/cgi\/process_comp\/photos\/2010\/01\/mike-foster-and-mel-allcott-worcester-shop1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oxfam.org.uk\/generationwhy\/cgi\/process_comp\/photos\/2010\/01\/mike-foster-and-mel-allcott-worcester-shop1-180x135.jpg\" alt=\"Mel Allcott, Manager of the Oxfam shop on Mealcheapen Street in Worcester and Mike Foster MP encourage locals to keep donating to the Haiti Appeal.\" width=\"180\" height=\"135\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>Mel Allcott, Manager of the Oxfam shop on Mealcheapen Street in Worcester and Mike Foster MP encourage locals to keep donating to the Haiti Appeal.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>I met up with Mike Foster, MP for Worcester and Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for International Development at the local Oxfam shop on Mealcheapen Street today.<\/p>\n<p>He was there to support the Haiti Appeal, ten days after the devastating earthquake struck\u00a0one of the world&#8217;s poorest nations.<\/p>\n<p>Mel, the manager at the Worcester shop, told me that they have already raised over \u00a32600, which is fantastic news! Of course, there is still so much to do in Haiti and the shop wants locals to keep\u00a0making donations. They&#8217;re aiming to raise at least least \u00a35000. If you can&#8217;t make it into your local shop, you can always click here to <a title=\"Oxfam GB donate now\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfam.org.uk\/donate\/haiti-earthquake\/index.php\" >donate now<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">While dealing with the immediate aftermath of the earthquake is Oxfam&#8217;s main concern at the moment, we must not let this disaster push Haiti into a black hole of debt in the long term. The IMF has said that they will work to cancel the rest of Haiti&#8217;s debt, which would help to lift such an enormous burden in a time of crisis, but we need your help now to make sure that they stick to their guns. Leaders are meeting in Montreal on Monday to decide on the amount of aid that they will give.<\/p>\n<p>Please <a title=\"Oxfam GB Haiti\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oxfam.org.uk\/get_involved\/campaign\/actions\/haiti_drop_the_debt.html\" >email the head of the IMF<\/a> Dominique Strauss-Kahn to demand that when leaders meet on Monday, they cancel Haiti\u2019s debts immediately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mel Allcott, Manager of the Oxfam shop on Mealcheapen Street in Worcester and Mike Foster MP encourage locals to keep donating to the Haiti Appeal. I met up with Mike Foster, MP for Worcester and Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for International Development at the local Oxfam shop on Mealcheapen Street today. He was there to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4234,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}