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Please look at the video here. It's a video from from charity Mary's Meals, and it shows conditions in Haiti before the earthquake on 12 January 2010.  the video notes that 50% of the children die before their fifth birthday and it shows cakes baked with mud and full of disease. It is a very extraordinary film, and that's before, before the earth shook at 4.53pm [9.53pm GMT]  on 12 January 2010. So please help us to help, please sponsor our little reading.

In Keriba Cock and Bull, the students of Ampleforth College read for 10 hours on 25 March 2010 from Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy, written in 18th century 5 miles from Ampleforth at Coxwold. St Oswald's presented the text for one hour.   

On 24 March 2010, the Director of Mary's Meals, Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow, spoke here at Ampleforth, describing his visit there a week after the earthquake - he said he had found nothing like this anywhere else. Mary’s Meals is helping victims of the Haiti earthquake in a slum in Port au Prince and at schools, hospitals and an orphanage in the country’s central region. Mary's Meals has been operating in Haiti since 2006, and was feeding more than 12,000 children at the time of the earthquake, over 6,000 of them in the Cite Soleil slum. 

Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow spoke of the work of Fr Tom [an American priest who helps], who has created a little chapel out of things salvaged from his ruined house – a rocking chair, a smashed crucifix, a little statue of the Virgin Mary and a black and white picture of the two seminarians who died in his collapsed house.

The Haiti government estimated [9 Feb 2010] that 230,000 died and 300,000 were injured.

In addition, 30% of sponsorship helps Face-Faw to maintain support for other needs - eg: Francis Maria Libermann School in Zanzibar,Yorkshire Air Ambulance service, Lepra, Let the Children Live or a Prosthetic Unit near Mostar in Bosnia-Herzegovina or the poor in Romania.  A complete list of Face-Faw projects is on the Face-Faw website [click Spirituality on the College website, then click Charity] 

Sponsoring us in St Oswald's 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 send your sponsorship directly to Ampleforth Abbey Trust/Face-Faw and they 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 Face-Faw.

So St Oswald's ask you just for a little help. Please sponsor St Oswald's just a little amount, and this will help Face-Faw and the children of Haiti.

Tim Topham, Arthur Fitzalan Howard, David Shields, Jack Rogers, Tom Scrope, Josh Reid, Jack Cuddigan, Charlie Birkett, George Bryne-Hill, Hugo Maxwell, Matthew Macfarlane and the boys of St Oswald's.