Darren Parsons

Songs4Haiti appeal

Fundraising for International Association For Human Values
£1,341
raised of £2,000 target
by 80 supporters
Donations cannot currently be made to this page
Darren Parsons's fundraising, 18 February 2010
We promote human values of caring & sharing to create a united human community

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Please make a donation on this page and download free songs from www.songs4haiti.com ! 

Donations are made in United Kingdom Pounds Sterling - £ GBP, but currencies can be quickly and easily converted using XE (www.xe.com/ucc). You can give in no time at all with a credit/debit card or PAYPAL.

After you have donated, a password to download the songs will be displayed on screen and also sent to your email address with your reciept. THANK YOU FOR HELPING THE PEOPLE OF HAITI.

Thank you for taking the time to visit the Songs4Haiti page at JustGiving.com.

Your donation will help the work of the International Association for Human Values (IAHV), in conjunction with The Art of Living Foundation, in Haiti. As a thank you, you will be given a password to download a wide variety of songs that have been donated to this appeal by artists from around the world. Songs can be previewed at www.songs4haiti.com. Songs will continue to be added to the website, so keep checking back for new additions or join the 'Songs4Haiti' Facebook group (www.facebook.com/group.php?v=wall&ref=search&gid=361175849045) and we'll let you know whenever news songs are uploaded.

 

Songs

Songs4Haiti started out as an idea for using one original song to raise money to help the people of Haiti after the catastrophic earthquake on 12th January, 2010. Three weeks later it was time to launch the appeal, and that one song had increased to 37 songs. Songs continue to come in and be added to the website - we're now nearly up to 50 songs. Join the Songs4Haiti Facebook group and receive notification whenever a song is added.

The songs have been generously donated by artists from Guernsey, UK, USA, Canada, New Zealand, Finland, Norway, Portugal and other countries from around the world. We have African Fusion from a band formed by a platinum record producer and musician. There is Uplifting Trance from an artist recently signed to a partner of Ministry of Sound. Hip Hop collective Asylum Seekas provide lyrical twists and turns. There is stomping up-tempo jazz from a band whose album was mixed and cut in London's famous Abbey Road studios. There is Rap from an 8 year old Canadian whose song has already raised a substantial amount for Haiti in its own right. There is thoughtful acoustic pop/jazz from Dave Fuller, classic Rock from Nemesis. Pop, ballads, ambient chillout, metal, acoustic blues, instrumentals, and many other styles and genres.

 

IAHV

The International Association for Human Values (IAHV), in conjunction with sister organisation The Art of Living Foundation, has 27 years experience working in 140 countries, and is already established in Haiti: For the last 2 years they have provided youth leadership skills, sustainable agriculture, entrepreneurship skills, and stress and anger management courses to 350 young adults from 5 regions of Haiti.

Following the catastrophic earthquake in Haiti in January, IAHV have been helping the people of Haiti by sending volunteers and vital aid supplies, but their focus is very much on the long term aid: food-security and infrastructure reconstruction.

100 young Haitian adults will be trained by Haitian and international experts, and will serve their country for 2 years.

They will be trained as community educators, project organisers, workers with the skills to implement small scale home and community gardens. They will lead their communities to create appropriate infrastructure for clean water, sanitation and safe building construction. The local population will be empowered to produce their own food, clean water and housing.

Trauma relief is an essential part of this programme. For 2 years IAHV will deliver trauma relief in refugee camps, towns and villages throughout Haiti, in partnership with local and international aid organisations.

Your donation will contribute to this multifaceted approach.

Please see www.nouvelleviehaiti.org , www.iahv.org , www.iahv.org.uk and www.artofliving.org for more information.

 

Donating through JustGiving

You can help in no time at all by donating a small amount with a credit/debit card or with PAYPAL. Donations are made in United Kingdom Pounds Sterling - £ GBP, but currencies can be quickly and easily converted using XE (www.xe.com/ucc). Donating through JustGiving is simple, fast and totally secure. Your details are safe with JustGiving – they’ll never sell them on or send unwanted emails. Once you donate, they’ll send your money directly to the charity and make sure Gift Aid is reclaimed on every eligible donation by a UK taxpayer. So it’s the most efficient way to donate - we raise more, whilst saving time and cutting costs for the charity.

 

Thanks go to:

All of you who have donated money to our appeal. All of the musicians and songwriters who have generously donated a song to help Haiti. Thanks also to Pat and Russ from Indulge Media who gave their time to help build the Songs4Haiti website; Integrated Skills for the server space; Phil Bartie for his support and sound advice; Kay Langlois for Facebook advice and printing posters & fliers; and Darren Betts for helping to attract some great artists to our appeal, and for tirelessly publicising it.

Best wishes from Darren and the Songs4Haiti Team.

About the charity

The International Association for Human Values (IAHV) was founded in Geneva in 1997, to foster, on a global scale, deeper understanding of the values that unite us as a human community. Our aim is to promote an awareness of the importance of human values, encourage their development, and to initiate and support projects in the UK and throughout the world that meet the fundamental objectives of the IAHV organisation in Human Values (and which meet our criteria).

Donation summary

Total raised
£1,341.00
+ £114.80 Gift Aid
Online donations
£1,341.00
Offline donations
£0.00

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