Help for Haiti

Schools across Scotland are providing a lifeline for survivors of the earthquake in Haiti.

SCIAF is using your donations to help hundreds of thousands of people who have lost their homes.

We are working with our partners in Caritas Internationalis – a coalition of Catholic charities from around the world – to make sure help gets to the people who need it most.

Your money is providing:

• food packages – which include rice, beans, sardines, milk, juice and cooking oil
• clean, safe water
• tents, blankets and tarpaulins
• water containers and purification tablets
• cooking equipment
• hygiene kits
• first aid, medical supplies and fuel

Two mobile operating theatres and six mobile clinics have also been set up to treat people who are injured.

In the long term, SCIAF will also be working with Caritas and our partners in Haiti to clean up the rubble, rebuild some of the buildings that have been destroyed, help people recover from the disaster and get back on their feet.

Click here to donate to SCIAF's emergency responseor call 0141 354 5555 for more information.

Click here to download a PowerPoint presentation for schools– suitable for use at assemblies and with individual class groups - to explain what has happened in Haiti and what SCIAF is now doing to help.