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.
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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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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:
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