Organised by West Swindon’s Bombay Lounge restaurant and DeVere Hotel.

Saturday 27 February, 7pm. DeVere Hotel, Shaw Ridge, Swindon

Three course meal from the Bombay Lounge and DeVere, live music, entertainers, auction.

Hosted by Shirley Ludford of Swindon Radio 105.5fm

Tickets £20 from Clare at the DeVere on 889315

Fundraising target for the evening £5,000. Auction and raffle prizes needed. To contribute call Pavinda at the Bombay Lounge on 07887 717597.

“We’re working together to try and bring some comfort to all the survivors of the terrible disaster,” Andrew Spink, general manager, DeVere Hotel.

Hanif Robani, owner of the Bombay Lounge at Peatmoor Village Centre, said, "the images we're seeing on TV are just awful. The Haitians are going through hell; we must help where we can.

Click here for links to stories written by Swindon born journalist Alex Ogle in Haiti.

Photo collage above, copyright CBM/Grossmann.

CBM (formerly the Christian Blind Mission) provides medical care and rehabilitation to as many blind, low vision, deaf and physically disabled people as possible in over 90 countries through a network of international offices and we are recognised by the World Health Organisation (WHO).

Dr. Yuri Zelenski MD, MPH, MPHI, former co-worker at the CBM supported Ophthalmology Department of the State University Hospital of Port-au-Prince, Haiti describes the scene as “one of the most horrifying disasters humanity has ever seen.” 

Despite the extensive damage caused by the earthquake, the Ophthalmology Department of the Hospital was one of the few functioning state services providing 24 hour emergency eye services during the first few days following the disaster.  

Unfortunately the ophthalmologist, Dr. Emmanuella Delaguerra, is missing, and our only hope is that she is among the survivors somewhere in the medical camp unconscious. We have been advised that her husband and younger child died.
 
Dr. Zelenski says “psychological, social and monetary damage is immeasurable and human loss is irreplaceable within decades. We share grief and pain with their families and friends.”   He continues, “even though, life is destroyed and our fellows are lost, our spirit is stronger than ever.  We stay united. We have not lost our capacity to act and with your help we will rebuild Haiti.”