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February 13, 2012
Swede gives millions to help Haiti children
Published: 16 Jan 10 09:47 CET | Double click on a word to get a translation
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/24418/20100116/
Swedish businessman Roger Akelius is to donate 100 million kronor over a 25-year-period to a children’s charity in the wake of Haiti’s devastating earthquake.
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“It’s the biggest amount of financial support from one donation we have ever had,” charity head Marcus Norberg told newspaper Svenska Dagbladet.
The money is to be used to support and educate around 400 Haiti children who live in two separate villages where the charity has set up facilities to help homeless and orphaned kids.
The villages are situated close to Port au-Prince and Cap Haïtien in the northern part of the country.
Akelius, who currently lives in the Bahamas, explained that with his property and insurance businesses booming, his impending 65th birthday prompted him to plan how his money will be used in the future.
“Because I live fairly close to Haiti I have been carefully following the events unfold and what is happening with the children in connection with the earthquake,” he said.
While the charity is receiving donations for immediate and emergency assistance, Akelius' millions will be used to the long-term benefit of children cared for in these two SOS-Barnbyar villages.
“It means we can help them even more and offer high school education which we aren’t always able to do,” added Marcus Norberg.
Christine Demsteader
news@thelocal.se
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You clearly have some personal issues over other peoples wealth and beliefs etc.. I fail to see how you lack the heart and slander someone who has given money to those in desperate need of help. Even if it's only .1% of his wealth, does it matter? NO. I think that perhaps you need to cleanse your soul for the things you have said about those who are helping others. Get back under your bridge.
Despite the lack of diplomatic relations, related Chinese government departments and rescue groups have been told to help out and provide humanitarian aid in the paralyzed nation. Thus far, China has:
■Donated $1 million USD in emergency aid to Haiti through the China Red Cross Society. Which, incidentally, is the same amount Brangelina has contributed.
■Sent a 60-strong rescue team to the earthquake site. The team, which consists of search and rescue personnel with years of experience and three sniffer dogs, departed yesterday night.
■The Center for Consular Assistance and Protection under the Foreign Ministry will provide 24-hour consultation service. We're not sure what that's for, but it sounds helpful.
Also, eight soldiers of China's 125-strong peacekeeping force in Haiti, which had been deployed there last June to help with ongoing peacekeeping efforts in the tumultuous nation, were said to be buried under debris. Ten more are still missing.
Well it is like they say, no good deed goes punished.
I´ve heard plenty of amazingly tedious, pointless whining on this web site, but this one really takes the cake.
israel on the other hand is operating the only facility that saves life in haiti itself- the only hospital that actually saves life. also there is a whole unit of rescue engineering that already rescued poeple from within the ruins. and what did the swedish government does?
to quote your own "the local" -
The Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (Myndigheten för samhällsskydd och beredskap - MSB) said on Wednesday it will be sending two people "as early as tonight" to support United Nations Disaster Assessment & Coordination (UNDAC) teams on their way to Haiti.
2 poeple. that's all?
the second and final article in "the local" about sweden help is this "long term" aid that was mentioned.
it could be a laugh if it wasnt so sad. little israel is helping while sweden is refusing to help a nation that was devastated by nature. a shame on you.
et c have give billions kr to cherity. However,in a larger perspective the money don't change ANYTHING. The best measure to remove poverty/injustice in the world is so radical that people with good living standard would never voluntarily agree to it.
How many lives had been saved in Haiti in that case ?