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The international GLBT community is rallying to help victims of the devastating earthquakes in Haiti.
The Rainbow World Fund is calling for contributions from gays and lesbians across the globe to increase their humanitarian work in Haiti in light of the disaster. The Fund, which describes itself as a “labour of love”, is a San-Francisco-based all-volunteer GLBT charity that regularly carries out humanitarian relief work in a number of countries. It operates programmes in Africa helping orphans and children affected by HIV, GLBT advocacy work in Iraq and other programmes throughout Central and South America. For the last six years, the Fund has maintained a programme of improving nutrition and developing safe drinking water access in Haiti and has improved the lives of thousands of Haitians. A statement released by the Fund said their disaster relief partner CARE was already in Haiti distributing food, blankets, medicine and drinking water and that 100 per cent of all donations would go directly to these emergency goods. “Rainbow World Fund’s work is about serving humanity, gay and straight alike,” founder Jeff Cotter said. “[We] worked actively on relief efforts for Katrina and the tsunami, and we will do the same in response to the crisis in Haiti. It is our hope to see this multiplied many times by the generosity of the LGBT and friends community." For more information, go to rainbowfund.org Photo: Rainbow World Fund
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