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More support for Haiti victims
10:40pm Friday 19th February 2010 in
CASH continues to flow in from across Hampshire to help victims of the Haiti earthquake.
Chandler's Ford Rotary Club raised around £2,100 after holding a collecting at the Waitrose store in the town.
It will be enough to buy four Shelterboxes, which provide people in disaster zones with some of the basics needed to survive.
They include a ten-person tent, blankets, groundsheets, mosquito nets, stove, utensils and water purification tablets.
Club president, Michael Scrivener, said: "We collected £2,102, vastly more than we anticipated.
"Now, with help from the club's trust fund and the Inner Wheel Club of Itchen Valley and others, more boxes will soon be on their way."
Meanwhile, Oliver's Battery Primary School in Winchester has also donated an extra £155 to the relief effort.
It comes after it raised £339 last month with pupils wearing fancy dress and placing coins on a map of Haiti.
Tens of thousands are feared dead after the disaster in Haiti last month (January) with many more injured or homeless.
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