Bonnie and Clyde have contributed another song to our album of music to help Haiti. If you're thinking about dancing have a listen to "Your Place in the Dictionary" over on our home page.
Bonnie & Clyde are two field fighting mavericks currently protecting the grounds of Dartington College of Arts with their dirty beats and biro stained fingertips. By day they go by their 'pedestrian' names Jack Harris and Alice Lilley, but at nightfall, even the darkness can't disguise their true passion and desire to find the ultimate relationship between music and metaphor.
Jack Harris is a contemporary artist mostly working with sound and technology. Alice Lilley is a performance poet, desperately searching for work!
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A video of ShelterBox Response Team members Tom Newman and Greg Rogers distributing 250 ShelterBoxes in Jacmel:
Jacmel is on the south coast of Haiti, almost due south of the capital Port au Prince:
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The chart below shows month to month variations in the climate at Port au Prince, the capital of earthquake stricken Haiti. Look carefully at the dark green "precipitation" graph:
The month of January when the earthquake hit is the driest of the year. By the time May arrives average rainfall is seven times as much.
An early foretaste of the rainy season to come happened last Thursday. According to Reuters:
The overnight downpour and a noisy, early morning protest by several hundred Haitians at the U.N. mission headquarters brought into sharp focus simmering anger over the dire need for shelter in the poorest country in the Americas.
Haiti is in a race against time to move survivors from the rudimentary homes they have fashioned out of plastic tarps, bedsheets and panels of corrugated zinc.
"They've been collecting money for Haiti around the world. Many millions have been collected. But we are still in misery," Jean-Max Seraphin, 25, said as he stood near the sodden cotton bedsheets that serve as his home in downtown Port-au-Prince.
"If millions have been collected, why don't they buy tents? Our children will be sick. We will be sick. And more people are going to die."
Here's the problem. If the hundreds of thousands of homeless people in Haiti don't get decent shelter before the tropical rainy season arrives in a few short weeks they will find themselves paddling in other peoples excrement. The rainy season is then followed by the Caribbean hurricane season.
Sanitation in the nearly 500 spontaneous encampments that have grown up around teeming, chaotic Port-au-Prince is woeful and health officials say they are seeing increasing cases of tetanus, dengue and other ailments.
Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive said this week the government has "no clear vision" of how to move 1 million people into better temporary shelters, and said it could be a decade before Haiti can build 250,000 homes to replace those destroyed.
If you would like to do what you can to help then please take a look at our suggestions for how to help Haiti.
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Croyde based reggae/funk band the Universe Inspectors have contributed a new track to our Haiti relief album. Check out the clip from "Universe Inspector" on our home page.
The Universe Inspectors are Melvin Eveleigh on vocals and guitar, Nick Austin on Sax, Mark Freeman on drums and Ralph Freeman on bass. The Inspectors are legends locally for their surfing as well as for their music. Ralph even has a reef named after him!
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Today we've added a new section to our website.
Peter Gabriel's record company Real World have generously given us permission to quote the lyrics from one of Peter's songs, which we feel is particularly relevant to the relief effort in Haiti. If you're the sort of person who prefers to read rather than watch videos please take a look at our new "Songs" section.
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Mark Abdey has contributed a new track to the "Water Connects Us" album. You can listen to a clip from "The Hanging Cloud" on our home page.
Mark plays all the instruments himself!
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The North Devon band Zamba have contributed a new track to our Haiti relief album. Check out the clip from "The Jester" on our home page.
Zamba are Della on vocals, James on guitar, Kev on bass and Edge on drums.
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De Larje have started the ball rolling by contributing a guitar duet to the "Water Connects Us" album. You can listen to a clip from "Clean Song" on our home page.
De Larje are Dave on acoustic guitar and Trunks on electric guitar.
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Update 11:35 GMT on January 20th 2010
Haiti just endured another aftershock. This one was apparently 5.9 on the moment magnitude scale.
Synchronicity struck at the opening of the Art, Ecology and the Economy exhibition at CCANW. Several musicians from South West England have now donated a track to our forthcoming "Water Connects Us" album in aid of Haiti:
De Larje giving their first ever concert
Kasia Turajczyk of water-connects-us.org has produced this video poem in response to the disaster in Haiti:
Peter Gabriel has produced this music video in response to the disaster in Haiti. It is a moving reworking of David Bowie's classic "Heroes":
The Road to Fondwa team are donating proceeds from sales of their documentary movie to the relief effort:
On January 12th 2010 a large number of Haitians lost their homes or their lives following a powerful earthquake.
This is raw footage of the aftermath of that earthquake:
At the beginning of September 2008 a large number of Haitians lost their homes or their lives following Hurricane Hanna.
This is raw footage of the aftermath of that hurricane:
If you would like to help please take a look at our current suggestions about how best to help Haiti.
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