The government has purchased all of the UK's available corrugated iron sheets to provide shelters for victims of the Haiti earthquake.

'Gordon Brown announced the move, which should help some 2,000 families, at a charity poetry reading for Haiti in London on Saturday. The 5,700 sheets cost £35,000 and were bought from the £20m the UK government has allocated to the relief effort. They will be shipped to the stricken country next week. Between 100,000 and 200,000 people are thought to hav… Continue

By Rebecca Winson for Se7en Magazine
Published 14 January 2010

'International rescue teams have begun to arrive in Haiti, where a 7.0 scale earthquake has caused immeasurable destruction. The Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive believes the death toll could reach 100,000, although he admitted that he had no way of knowing the actual n… Continue

One of our fellow students, Matthew Jones (M.Arch) is trustee for a charity working in Zambia - The Ituna Community Project is raising money to build a school in Zambia for over 800 orphaned and vulnerable children.

The vision for the project started in 2005… Continue