Guyana most generous when it comes to Haiti aid

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Guyana most generous when it comes to Haiti aid

CARIBBEAN NET NEWS, GRAND CAYMAN, CAYMAN ISLANDS | <ABBR class=updated title=2010-02-08T13:56:37-05:00>43 minutes ago</ABBR>

Feb. 8--GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- Guyana has been deemed by the United Nations to be the kindest country regarding monetary and other donations to Haiti.

ReliefWeb, a UN-operated website providing the latest information to humanitarian organizations, on Friday released a graph detailing funding by countries to Haiti. Guyana emerged as the top country in terms of donations against its GDP, which is just over one billion dollars per year.

About .088 percent of Guyana's GDP has been donated to Haiti in the form of government aid and personal contributions by the Guyanese people, the UN graph tracking donations showed. On average, each person in Guyana donated US$1.31. The Guyanese Red Cross announced donations of over GY$250 million (US$1.4 million) to Haiti.

Ghana was number two with .018 of its GDP donated to Haiti. The average donated per person in Ghana was US$0.13.

Canada had the highest per-person donations at US$3.92 and 0.0087 of its GDP has been committed to Haiti.

The United States donated an average of US$0.52 per person and has committed 0.0011 of its total GDP.

Following the devastating January 12 earthquake, President Bharrat Jagdeo announced a US$ 1 million assistance for the island and organized a national stakeholders meeting and established a Haiti relief committee, which has managed to raise over GY$60 million in cash and several millions in kind, including food, clothing tents medical supplies and water thus far.



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Ghana is second biggest donor to Haiti

Tuesday, 09 February 2010
Ghana has been noted as the second biggest donor to Haiti after Guyana, based on donor countries' Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

Ghana has donated $3 million to Haiti following the recent earthquake

Details of financial aid and other assistance to the people of Haiti, being tracked by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), were released recently by the Data Blog hosted on the website of the UK newspaper, the Guardian.

According to the Data Blog contributions captured as at January 24, 2010 shows Guyana as the ?most generous' country in terms of its financial pledges when measured against the country's GDP. The report indicated that Guyana is the third poorest country in the Western hemisphere, after Haiti and Nicaragua.

Haiti suffered a destructive earthquake recently which killed several thousands and injured many citizens leaving its people in distress and needing help very badly.

Ghana made a donation of $3 million to the government and people of Haiti. The country also gave some cocoa products and medication.

Some Ghanaian organizations, including musicians, are also making efforts to raise money and relief items to help the people of Haiti.

A Ghanaian charity, the Caring Kids International, has launched a fundraising effort to raise $1 million for Haiti. On Saturday a representative of the group, student Len Kessie, arrived in Haiti as part of the group's efforts, according to the Ghanabusinessnews.com.

According to the released data the Guyana National Committee for Haiti Relief has raised close to $260 million.

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