Christian Aid UK is calling for the full cancellation of Haiti’s debt in response to the devastating earthquake which has affected thousands of people. Haiti needs long term support along with emergency financial assistance due to the worst disaster in its history, and with a current debt of $890m, they will need no strings attached loans to help rebuild.

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The World Vision charity is still continuing to distribute relief supplies in Haiti, even though a number of big aftershocks have hit Port-au-Prince, the Haitian capital. After last weeks magnitude-7 earthquake, World Vision were straight on the scene to give out food, blankets, water containers and hygiene kits to thousands of Haitians.

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The NSPCC charity has managed to sign up nearly 30,000 people to their Safety.Net campaign petition, which tells the Government that the internet must be made safer for children as soon as possible. The petition was launched 6 months ago in June 2009, and will be presented today at 10 Downing Street by NSPCC staff and celebrity supporter Levi Roots.

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Fashion designer Jeff Banks is asking the nation to donate unwanted clothes and help raise £2m for the NSPCC charity. The Great British Clothes Clearout is a fantastic new incentive aimed at collecting more than 5 million bags of second hand clothing in the next 2 years in partnership with clothing collection agent Clothes Aid. Mr. Banks has even cleaned out his own warehouse, donating over 1,000 garments from his many design collections for the launch.

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The NSPCC charity announced on Tuesday 19th January 2010 that British actor Nicholas Hoult will become their first ever ambassador for children and young people. Nicholas, who has just received a nomination for an Orange Bafta ‘rising star’ award for his role in A Single Man, is a well known face to young people in Britain after his leading role in the cult youth drama ‘Skins’, and of course his breakthrough role in ‘About a Boy’ alongside Hugh Grant.

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The Oxfam charity will dispatched a six strong team of emergency specialists to Haiti from the UK to bolster the charity’s response to the devastating earthquake that struck the country on Tuesday. Below is a blow by blow account at frontline from Cedric Perus, Oxfam’s humanitarian coordinator in Port au Prince

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Vodafone Foundation has now found the 500 young people from across the country to take part in their World of Difference UK Programme. Over 1100 applied for placements, with the winners spending two months working for a charity of their choice.

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Check out this amazing video filmed by the WWF charity tiger research team in Sumatra, Indonesia. The team set up four video camera traps in ‘wildlife corridors’ that allow animals to move between two protected areas in central Sumatra. The corridor, between the Rimbang Baling Wildlife Reserve and Bukit Tigapuluh National Park in the Riau province, certainly provided some spectacular footage as you can see below.

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WWF charity are concerned that plans for a new ski resort will one of Europe’s last remaining untouched wildernesses. The area around the Carpathian Mountains and the Balkans is now the site for expansion plans on existing facilities across many parts of the region.

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The RSPB charity Big Garden Birdwatch will be kicking off again on the weekend of Saturday 30th January 2010, with this year’s event promising to be the biggest ever! This year almost half a million people will be taking part across the country to see how many different types of bird they can spot over the course of weekend, making this the biggest bird survey in the world.

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