Press convocation - Join FTQ, CSQ, CSN, ROCAHD and Mélanie Renaud and help
the HUMANITARIAN COALITION save lives in Haiti

MONTREAL , Jan. 13 /CNW Telbec/ - The HUMANITARIAN COALITION, comprised of Care Canada , Oxfam Canada , Oxfam-Québec and Save the Children Canada , will provide an update on the situation in Haiti and its emergency assistance needs, and will issue a public call for donations to help the thousands of victims of yesterday's devastating earthquake.

    
               When? Wednesday afternoon, 13 January, at 3:30
               Where? 2330, Notre-Dame Street West, Montréal
    

In attendance will be: singer Mélanie Renaud, Oxfam-Québec's Ambassador for Haiti ; Robert Fox , Director General, Oxfam Canada ; Pierre Véronneau, Directeur général, Oxfam-Québec; Rosine Assamoi, international programs, Save the Children Canada ; Bogdan Dimitru, Vice President for international programs, Care Canada ; Éric Faustin, Director General of ROCAHD (Coalition of Canadian-Haitian Development Organizations); René Roy, Secretary General of the QFL ( Quebec Federation of Labour); Jacques Létourneau, international relations officer, CSN (Confederation of National Trade Unions); Louise Chabot , First Vice President CSQ (Centrale des syndicats du Québec).

People are urged to send donations to the THE HUMANITARIAN COALITION, by calling 1 800.464.9154, by logging on to www.lacoalitionhumanitaire.ca, or by mail to THE HUMANITARIAN COALITION HUMANITAIRE, Saint-André station, PO Box 32054, Montréal, Québec, H2L 4Y5 or to PO box 1221, station K, Toronto , ON M4P 3E4.

For more information on what we are doing to help, visit www.the humanitariancoalition.ca

For further information: Justine Lesage, media relations, Oxfam-Québec, [phone]