{"id":218970,"date":"2010-01-15T13:54:53","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T18:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oxfam.org.uk\/applications\/blogs\/pressoffice\/?p=9972"},"modified":"2010-01-15T13:54:53","modified_gmt":"2010-01-15T18:54:53","slug":"haiti-update-and-call-for-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/218970","title":{"rendered":"Haiti update and call for support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"12.0pt;\">A big thank you to everyone who has supported our Haiti appeal so far.<\/span><span style=\"EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\"> Oxfam is now beginning to get aid through despite immense challenges. Our staff in Haiti are currently providing shovels and picks for local civil workers to clear rubble to search for trapped victims in the capital, but the destruction continues to severely hamper aid efforts. Our immediate priorities will be providing safe water and shelter materials for the people who have lost their homes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\">A horrific picture of need, and the vast obstacles to getting aid to people in need, is emerging. While international efforts are focused on\u00a0dispersing aid in the capital,\u00a0the actual epicenter of the quake was in the countryside. There is no access to rural area, so no picture yet of the disaster there and scale of people\u2019s needs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"EN;\" lang=\"EN\">Oxfam are planning a response costing several million pounds, and <\/span><span style=\"12.0pt;\">I\u2019d like to ask you to do anything you can to help, and to do it as soon as you can. Could you contact your local supermarket, rail station or theatre and see if you could hold a collection there? You\u2019ll be amazed at the generosity of others, especially while the earthquake is at the front of everyone\u2019s minds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"12.0pt;\">One of our volunteers, Charli, spent Wednesday afternoon baking cakes. Yesterday, she went round the office block asking for donations in return for cakes \u2013 and made \u00a3137! This morning, she had just four left to sell \u2013 and from these four cakes, she made another \u00a345 \u2013 amazing!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"AR-SA;\">Our heartfelt thanks go to Charli and everyone else who is working so hard to raise money for Haiti. You can donate online at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxfam.org.uk\">www.oxfam.org.uk<\/a>. Whether you bake cakes, hold a raffle at work, shake a collecting bucket or organise a fundraising event, you can make a real difference \u2013 thank you. If you\u2019d like any materials or advice on fundraising, please do give me a call on 07917 323 538.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A big thank you to everyone who has supported our Haiti appeal so far. Oxfam is now beginning to get aid through despite immense challenges. Our staff in Haiti are currently providing shovels and picks for local civil workers to clear rubble to search for trapped victims in the capital, but the destruction continues to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4241,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218970","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\/4241"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}