Housing charity for Haiti beats targets

AN Irish charity building houses in Haiti has said it has exceeded its targets in the impoverished country despite the destruction wrought by the hurricane last winter.

Haven published its first annual report since its foundation in January 2009 and said it was oversubscribed for two fundraising Build It weeks later this year.

In rural haiti Haven has built 300 new houses and upgraded 500 others, while the emergency response in the capital city Port au Prince to the disastrous earthquake resulted in 600 transitional shelters and 1,300 latrines being fitted.