4 TELEGRAPH, Wednesday, March 10, 2010 visit our websites www.thisisderbyshire.co.uk and www.therams.co.uk DET-E01-S2 DET DET-E01-S2 DET visit our websites www.thisisderbyshire.co.uk and www.therams.co.uk DERBY TELEGRAPH, Wednesday, March 10, 2010 5 NEWS NEWS WEATHER, LATE-NIGHT CHEMISTS AND CONTACTS Quake victims Today Tomorrow queue for hours ‘SOS. We need to get Aquabox

Chesterfield Chesterfield HAITI FROM PAGE 1 Skegness Skegness Lincoln Lincoln help please,’ Aquabox, paid forby Tele- Nottingham graph readers,which contains a water purification kit, a baby’s bottle and clothes, and DERBY DERBY some condensed milk. Leicester Leicester Theyoung woman was 15 5 read the sign. shown how to use the Aquabox to get clean water to mix with the milk to dilute it so she It will be arather cloudy dayat Anymist will quickly clear away to could feed the baby. times,but it is expected to remain leave plenty of dryweather Dr Raffeal Pineda, a doctor largely dry. However, there is the around with bright and sunny whohas been volunteering Because of with international charity Hu- small risk of drizzle.Moderate spells formuch of the day. Light north-easterly winds.Max temp north-easterly winds.Max temp manity First, said: “The baby 5-8C (41-46F). 5-8C (41-46F). girl was starving. “She needed her mother’s Around Britain Around the world milk but her mother is dead. ºC ºF ºC ºF you, it was “This milk and water should help save her.” Aberdeen Sunny846 Amsterdam Sunny439 This is just one of scores of Belfast Fair 439Athens Sunny1457 stories of hope witnessed by Birmingham Sunny745 Barcelona Sunny846 the Derby Telegraphwhen we Berlin Blackpool Sunny948 Sunny236 visited Haiti last week to see Brighton Cloudy 643Corfu Cloudy 12 54 on its way to how the Aquaboxesbought by Cardiff Fair 846Costa del Sol Sunny1355 our readers were making a dif- Edinburgh Cloudy 846Cyprus Cloudy 21 70 ference. Leeds Sunny643 Hong Kong Cloudy 11 52 Liverpool Sunny948 Jamaica Fair 28 82 Cloudy 745Majorca Sunny1050 Manchester Miami Cloudy 22 72 a lucky few Sunny948 Newcastle Fair 745Paris Sunny337 Torquay Fair 846Tenerife Fair 23 73 3-day forecast Sun &moon Derby Telegraph readers have Sunrise 6.31am, Sunset 5.59pm helped raise more than Friday Moonrise 4.23am, Moonset 12.17pm £200,000 to pay for water Dry. Fairly cloudy. Lighting up purification kits which have Lighting up times 5.59pm to 6.29am been sent to earthquake- Saturday ravaged Haiti. Reporter Claire Yesterday’sextremes Turning cloud later. Duffin (pictured) has flown to the country’s Coldest: Katesbridge,-10C (14F) Sunday Warmest: Mumbles,10C (50F) capital to see first-hand how the Aquaboxes Sunniest: Claremorris,11hrs are saving the lives of survivors. IN NEED: Mother and Mostly dry. Wettest: Dunkeswell, 0.02ins baby. Forthe latest forecast, call: 0905 168 0601 The weather foryour holiday, call: 0905 168 0604 Calls cost 50p/min from aBTlandline.Other networks mayvary. SCRAWLED on the hand- tools and money to startre- The country is on its knees, made sign draped from a building their homes and most with the vast majority of Late-night chemists wall are the words: “SOS we areterrified, almost to the people in the capital Port-au- need help please”. point of hysteria, thatthere Prince homeless. WEDNESDAY: Prescriptions only (until Wiltshire Rd, ; Victoria Avenue, It is one of scores of similar will be another quake. Terrified of another earth- 6.30pm unless stated): and Stenson Rd, Sunny Hill Derby: , Stockbrook St; Asda, (6pm); North St, Derby and Oakwood District desperate pleas thatcan be Some live on the road in quake and too poor to rebuild (10pm); Astons, Osmaston Rd (7pm); Boots, Centre; District Centre (7pm); Rosehill, seen draped on piles of rubble front of their houses while oth- their homes, the people of Haiti Victoria St (8pm), Boots, Kingsway (8pm); Normanton Rd (11pm). Ashbourne: Lloyds, and the remains of walls as you ers have set up camps in groups are living in makeshift shelters Buxton's, St Thomas Rd (7pm); Cavendish Shawcroft Centre (6pm). Ashby: Owen Jones drive along Port-au-Prince’s on parks, football pitches and in slums with no sanitation or Pharmacy, Derby Lane, Cavendish (7am- (6pm). Barton: Peak (6pm). : 10pm); Day/Night Pharmacy, Wilson St and Morrisons (8pm). Burton: Co-op, Morrisons dusty roads. waste land. clean water, relying on Osmaston Road, Allenton (7am-midnight); (8pm); Asda, (9pm). Castle Gresley: Wilson Next to the signs aresur- Some have been giventents handouts of food to stay alive. Dean and Smedley, (6pm); (6pm). Draycott: Wilson. Long Eaton: Dales viving familymembers, hud- by aid agencies but most have But the Aquaboxes, which Dixon, Vernon St (7pm); Duffield Pharmacy, (7pm). Matlock: Manor Pharmacy. Newhall: dling in makeshift shelters, too made shelters out of sticks LIFE-SAVERS: have kits forremoving deadly Town St, Duffield; EJ’s, Crayford Rd, Newhall Pharmacy (6pm). Riddings: Powell ; EJ’s, Keldholme Lane, Alvaston; and Hughes. Ripley: Boots (midnight). scared to go back inside their pushed into the dusty ground, Left, the Aquaboxes waterborne diseases along Jhoots Pharmacy, Witham Drive, Hilton : Burrows and Close. homes. which are are distributed in with essential welfare items, (7am-1am); Lander and Hunter, Normanton : Dean and Smedley. This is a scene covered with Grasier camp at areseen as aGodsend by sur- Rd; Lock, Rd, (6pm); Swanwick: Tambers (6pm), K M Brennan. that is repeated blue tarpaulin. Port-au-Prince. vivors. Manor, Burton Rd; London Rd, Alvaston and Tutbury: Dean and Smedley (6.15pm). Osmaston Rd (6pm); Sainsbury’s, Kingsway : (10.30pm). Willington: on every street, The humidity is They can mean the One woman, who queued for Retail Park (9pm); Sainsbury’s, Wyvern Willington Pharmacy (6pm). Wirksworth: even though it is almost unbear- difference between hours to getone, danced (11pm); Tesco, (8pm); Wilsons, Hannage. Woodville: Dean and Smedley. now almost two able and often as life and death for around and waved her hands in months after the many as eight many homeless the air. “This is what we need to Contact us disaster which family members people. Many of the stay alive,”she said. killed 200,000 sleep inside a f To donate to Aquabox, call General inquiries 01332 291111 Allenton, Alvaston, Spondon, survivors of the Newsdesk 01332 253053; Oakwood and Willington: Paul Whyatt and left a million space which is no devastating us on Derby 253053 or e-mail [email protected] 01332 291111 ext 6418; more homeless. more than six- There is a desperate need for And some of them are hand- itself as the people have so little boxes and the grateful refugees we give earthquake are forced [email protected]. Picture desk 01332 253057; [email protected] Locals told me feet square. these essentials. But they are ing out Aquaboxeswhichstar- and are literallycrying out for happily accepted one each. out the to live in terrible Youcan send money to Nat- [email protected] Chellaston, Aston-on-Trent and Weston- that when build- Litter and in short supply. ted their life in a warehouse in help. But soon ahuge crowdhad Aquaboxes conditions in West account number 53575113, Normanton, Pear Tree, Osmaston on-Trent: Jonny Birkin 01332 291111 ext and : Chris Jones 6422; [email protected] ing the houses in GIVE WATER, rubble are every- Haitians arenow relying on . Aid workers are warned to gathered and the atmosphere in the future as this makeshift shelters in sort code 60-14-15, call 01629 825 01332 291111 ext 6405; Sinfin, : Caroline Jones Haiti, workers GIVE LIFE. where. The sew- food hand-outs from the United After being flown into the be careful when transporting changed, becoming intimidat- is not what we want to hap- the camp. Bottom 178, or post a donation to [email protected] 01332 291111 ext 6102; mixed too much erage system is Nations and aid organisa- earthquake zone, they are now food and water and large con- ing. Before long, scuffles pen. left, one of the signs Aquabox, PO Box5398, Mat- CAMPAIGN , Mickleover, and [email protected] sand in the con- made up of con- tions. helping to save lives. voys often have to have amil- turned into fights with sticks “It is a difficult job.” from desperate lock, Derbyshire DE4 4ZP, with Erewash: Claire Duffin 01332 291111 ext Politics: Kirsty Green 01332 291111 ext 6103; [email protected] 6407; [email protected] crete to make it crete canals Ordinary people can see no The 1,558 Aquaboxes sent by itary escort. as men clashed over the hand- Despite the initial setback, survivors. cheques made payable to Chaddesden, Melbourne, Castle Donington Business: Robin Johnson 01332 291111 more cost-effect- which, because light at the end of avery dark Wirksworth Rotary Club so far Thereason became clear outs. The boxeswere quickly Humanity First continued Pictures: Claire Duffin Aquabox. and East Staffordshire: Ed Hill 01332 ext 6400; [email protected] ive. Theresult of the corner- of the lack of water, are dry and tunnel. arebeing distributed in the when we reached a camp in an with the task of distributing 291111 ext 6334; [email protected] Crime: Shaun Jepson 01332 291111 ext cutting was devastating. filled with plastic bottles, bags, One woman I spoketo capital Port-au-Prince by the area of Port-au-Prince, called We just don’t the Aquaboxes and brought Derbyshire County Council and Chester 6411; [email protected] Hundreds of buildings take-away boxesand human summed up the diresituation: international charity Human- Grasier. The clamour for the smiles to the faces of scores of Green: Chris Mallett 01332 291111 ext Education: Zena Hawley 01332 291111 ext know how long we 6023; [email protected] 6444; [email protected] simply fell to the floor when the waste. “We just don’t know how long ity First. Aquaboxes was overwhelm- are going to have Haitians as they did. : Catherine Oakes Health: Kate Liptrot 01332 291111 ext earthquakestruck on January Thedust rises off the streets we are going to have to live like The organisation, which spe- ing. They borrowed trucks and OSTEOPOROSISSCREENING 01332 291111 ext 6501; 6451; [email protected] 12. and makes your eyes stream. this,”she said. “But we have cialises in sending doctors and At the camp, about 200 fam- to live like this hired vans to takethe boxesto 1in2women suffer…will youbeone of them? [email protected] Bygones: Sarah Powlson 01332 291111 Houses, hospitals, schools The roads were poor before the been told that there is another nurses to disaster scenes and ilies are living in tents donated those who needed them, includ- Derbyshire Dales and Mackworth: ext 6406; [email protected] It only costs£20 foranon-invasivescan Martin Naylor 01332 291111 ext 6412; Features: Wendy Roberts 01332 291111 and government structures lie earthquake, littered with earthquake coming. areas of poverty, was already by aid agencies and makeshift lockedbackin asecureshed ing orphanages and schools. [email protected] ext 5653; [email protected] in piles and thereare still bod- holes.Now thereare huge “We don’t want to try to re- operating in Haiti when the shelters after their homes were and we fled to our car as the They arenow providing Alvaston -Mon 15th March ies inside manybecause it is cracks across manywherethe build onlyfor them all to fall earthquake struck. destroyed. fight raged on. clean, safe drinking water for We deliver We recycle not safe to startdigging them ground has lifted up. down again –itwould be too It has now stepped up its There are a few goats and Dr Aslam Daud, chairman of hundreds of people in Haiti – Allestree -Mon 22nd March (am) out. Manypeople have to walk Jobs are few and prostitution devastating.” work and has been running cows tethered to the ground, Humanity First, who joined me and, thanks to you, saving Chaddesden -Mon 22nd March (pm) WANT the paper delivered? Call 0800 028 RECYCLED paper past, knowing their lovedones is rife.Most people spend the But there is hope. clinics at various camps across stray dogs and cats –but no in Haiti, said: “This is not what many lives. 5598. Call the same number if you are made up 80.3% of Sunnyhill -Thur 25th March having a problem with your delivery or would the raw material for lie within but unable to do any- day just wandering around in a And it is provided by the the capital and distributing the water. we want to see. This is very sad like to send it to friends abroad. Lines open UK newspapers in thing about it. desperate search forfood and legions of aid workers from all Aquaboxes. When we first arrived there but they are desperate. HOW QUAKE-HIT HAITIANS ARE For bookings and further information: Mon-Fri, 10am-6.30pm and Sat 9am-1pm. 2005. KEEPING FAITH, PAGE 6 The people do not have the water. over the world. 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