Tycoon issues appeal to help in Haiti building project

A TELECOMS tycoon, who used €1 million of his fortune to found a charity, has appealed to the people of his home county for help building or repairing 3,000 homes in poverty-stricken Haiti.

Entrepreneur Leslie Buckley will be in Cork on Monday night to recruit hundreds of volunteers to work on his charity’s first building project in the western world’s poorest nation later this year.

His Haven Partnership is looking for builders, tradesmen, cooks or medical experts for the week-long build in Quanaminphe, in the north east of the Caribbean country, in October.