The promoter of the Reggae Jam Festival in Germany (which was once more voted to be the best Reggae Festival in Europe) has teamed up with the non-profit organisation HELP Jamaica! to provide assistance to needy Jamaican communities.  HELP Jamaica! is raising money in Europe to establish alternative education centres in communities across Jamaica and to support existing education projects such as the Trenchtown Reading Centre (TRC).

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All over the world, people have responded generously to the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti. In just three days, more than a million Americans had donated $10 with the aid of text messages from their cellphones. People with very little themselves, like Maria Pacheco, an unemployed single mother from Chicago, donated food and clothes.

Others did whatever they could – from pedicures to washing cars – to raise money. On current indications, the amount Americans will give to relief efforts in Haiti could surpass the $1.9 billion they gave to assist victims of the 2004 Asian tsunami, which until now has stood as a record for donations to a disaster outside the United States. Given that the US is undergoing economic hard times, the size of the response has surprised many.

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