You can see from the widget on the right that I am going to have to increase my fundraising goal as we have nearly reached the target, thanks to donations from Tara-Jane and my in-laws Pam & Harry. Indeed with Gift Aid we are well over the £600 mark.
Lisa from Article 25 tells me that a team from the charity (Director of Projects, Project Architect and a Structural Engineer) will be going to Haiti on the 8th March for a feasibility trip. They are working with Outreach International to design and build up to 20 schools that were badly damaged in the Earthquake. They have also been approached with regard to a large scale home rebuilding project in Haiti which they will be investigating while on the ground. We will know more when the team returns.
News from Chile this week reminds us how devastating earthquakes can be and my friend Tita’s Mum has had to move out of her house in Valparaiso because it is unsafe. The earthquake in Chile is another tragedy but there is a huge difference in the number of fatalities in Chile and Haiti. This is in no small part down to architecture and shows why the work of Article 25 will be so important.
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