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Vote for us on HostelBookers and we could get £10,000 for our Disaster Fund

By Victoria Watts
May 26, 2011 at 11:21 am

For the next month, until 22 June, you can vote for us on HostelBookers’ Facebook page to help secure £10,000 for our Disaster Fund. The company will give £10,000 to the charity that gets the most votes, and £1,000 to the runner-up.

How to vote

1. Visit the HostelBookers Facebook page and hit ‘like’.
2. Select the British Red Cross as your chosen charity.

How the Disaster Fund helps

The Disaster Fund is one of the things that makes the Red Cross so special. It allows us to respond as soon as disaster strikes – getting aid to the scene in hours rather than days.

In 2011, we’ve drawn more than £1 million from the fund to respond to disasters all over the world including:

• £200,000 to help people affected by a drought in Kenya
• £350,000 to help those who’ve fled violent conflict in the Ivory Coast
• £446,000 to ensure adequate surgical and medical care for the wounded, and emergency relief items for people fleeing the conflict in Libya
• £110,000 to help people affected by severe drought in Somalia
• £50,000 to support the New Zealand Red Cross response to the earthquake in February
• £40,000 to help families affected by severe flooding in Namibia.

What we could do with £10,000

Following a disaster, the £10,000 from HostelBookers could help us to:

• buy enough jerry cans for 6,000 families to store clean water, reducing the risk of water-borne diseases like cholera
• pay for blankets for to keep 5,000 people warm
• provide two medical kits, vital for saving lives at the scene of a disaster
• pay for plastic sheeting shelter materials for 2,500 people
• buy 830 family packs (including kitchen sets with 20 pieces, 1 bucket, cotton blanket, 1 towel, 1 bed sheet, 2 mosquito nets (single bed), 6 candles, 2 matchboxes)
• provide enough vital food rations for more than 1,600 families for a month and a half.

Vote for us on HostelBookers

Donate to the Disaster Fund

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