Help save a life in Haiti
Tuesday 16th November 2010, 2:29PM GMT.
The body of an eight-year-old cholera victim is carried through the streets of Port-au-Prince on Sunday. With islanders’ help, Bridge 2 Haiti founder Sarah Griffith hopes to halt the spread of the disease. (Picture by AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
ISLANDERS are being asked to help prevent the spread of cholera in Haiti.
The disease has been increasing at a rate of 1,000 new cases per day over the last three days.
Almost 1,000 people have died and around 14,000 have so far been hospitalised. The disease is present in six out of 10 provinces.
Sarah Griffith, founder of Bridge 2 Haiti, has launched Hydration 2 Haiti and is asking islanders to donate either a box of rehydration salts or the equivalent of the cost of a box.
She is leaving for Haiti on Friday morning and wants to take 2,000 packs, which have been requested by a hospital in one of the cholera-struck towns.
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Where can we drop them off to. I don’t buy the paper I only read the online version.
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You can drop them off at vets4pets in St martins ( the office not the practise)
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Anywhere else? Work in town and don’t have transport.
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If you can take them to Trinity Chambers and ask for Sarah Cann or call her first on 748011 she is a friend of mine and will take them for you.
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