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see: www.haitisupportgroup.org Update 4 Jan: The UK authorities have denied Eramithe Delva a visa. However, as far as we know, Georges Werleigh is still coming. The meetings in Glasgow, Edinburgh and at Senate House in London have been cancelled but there are still at least two events going ahead in London and one in Brussels with Georges. Earthquakes, Hurricanes, CholeraUp to 305,000 dead; 5,800 amputations; 1.5 million homeless. One year after the most deadly natural disaster since WWII, come and hear how Haitians are rebuilding their lives, their civil society, their capital city – all in the middle of a cholera epidemic. For months, Eramithe Delva and her colleagues in the leading women’s rights organization KOFAVIV, lived under a tarpaulin in a park, just yards from the National Palace. Despite losing colleagues, their office, a clinic and school, KOFAVIV continued to combat sexual violence, a lack of sanitation and inadequate medical care from the mud and squalor of the camps. Following the refusal to allow Eramithe Delva to visit Britain, several meetings have been cancelled. But the following events will take place SUNDAY 09 JANUARY
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