Schools raise funds for Haiti

Various schools responded to the devastating earthquake that recently hit Haiti by raising funds to show solidarity with the victims.

Staff and students at St Catherine's High School, Pembroke, raised €2,500 to help the Salesian community in Haiti.

The money will be used to rebuild the Salesians' trade schools that provide vocational training to children in the country.

The donation was presented by the students to Fr Eric Cachia, SDB, during a school assembly on February 9, to be forwarded to the Salesian community in Haiti.

Fr Cachia also received a donation of €500 from Our Lady Immaculate School, Ħamrun. The money was raised through a Cookie Day for the junior and senior school held on the initiative of the school students' council.

Primary and secondary schoolchildren at the various schools forming part of St Theresa College also raised €2,500 for the Haiti earthquake victims.

A delegation of students, accompanied by college principal Frank Fabri, deposited the money in a special HSBC account on February 3 at a ceremony during which messages of solidarity with the people of Haiti were read out.

Meanwhile, San Anton School, L-Imselliet, raised €1,743 for Haiti by holding a dress-down day whereby students contributed a €2 'fine' for not coming to school in their uniform.

The sum collected was presented last week by a group of students to Claudia Taylor East from SOS Malta, who said the money would be sent to the Sisters of Mother Teresa in Haiti to help rebuild their orphanages which collapsed during the earthquake.