Stray Bullets - Simon Cowell Organises Haiti Charity Single
Aftershocks Continue: Mass Migration BeginsBritish rescuers have given up hope on finding any more survivors in the rubble. Rescue workers from the organisation Rapid UK said that they have done “all we can” and it was time for relief teams to take over. The past week has seen a series of miraculous rescues, including that of 11 year old Mendji Bahina Sanon; who was pulled out alive after spending eight days under the remains of her home in Port-au-Prince. The death toll from the earthquake so far is estimated at 200,000 with around 2 million thought to be homeless. Haiti’s government are today planning to move 400,000 people from the broken capital to new resettlement areas on the outskirts.
To do this, the government has made transportation free to the people, with the mass operation in place to remove survivors from the shattered city to tented villages in the suburbs, where food and sanitation services can be better co-ordinated. Medics treating survivors of the Haitian earthquake have warned the next big challenge is saving as many as three million hungry, injured and homeless people from deadly infections and diseases.
As British rescue workers leave, aid agencies will take over the baton. On Wednesday, the Disaster Emergency Committee, a coalition of 13 British aid agencies, said it had received £31.5 million in donations for its Haiti appeal. Also this week, Christian Aid called for the cancellation of all Haiti’s international debts.
Cowell Rallies Music Artists For Haiti Charity Single
Leona Lewis, JLS, Michael Buble, Robbie Williams, Coldplay, Take That and Sir Paul McCartney are rumoured to be covering REM’s ballad Everybody Hurts to raise money for Haiti. Simon Cowell has teamed up with The Sun newspaper to organise the single which is to be released later this month. Proceeds are to be split between the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) and the Sun’s Helping Haiti Campaign. REM is to waive royalties on the charity track and are said to be “deeply touched that the song has been chosen for the Haiti campaign.”
Leona Lewis, JLS, Michael Buble, Robbie Williams, Coldplay, Take That and Sir Paul McCartney are rumoured to be covering REM’s ballad Everybody Hurts to raise money for Haiti. Simon Cowell has teamed up with The Sun newspaper to organise the single which is to be released later this month. Proceeds are to be split between the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) and the Sun’s Helping Haiti Campaign. REM is to waive royalties on the charity track and are said to be “deeply touched that the song has been chosen for the Haiti campaign.”
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