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U.N WEBSITE REPORT - Guyana emerged as top country

 Guyana’s contributions to Haiti following the devastating earthquake which left tens of thousands of people dead have been the most generous in the world, United Nations data shows.

ReliefWeb, a U.N. operated website providing the latest information to humanitarian organizations, in partnership with the Guardian UK, released a comprehensive graph on Friday which details funding by countries to the devastation in Haiti.

Guyana emerged as the top country in terms of donations against its GDP, which is just over one billion dollars per year.

About .088 percent of Guyana’s GDP has been donated to Haiti in the form of government aid and personal contributions by the Guyanese people, a U.N. graph tracking donations showed.

On average, each person in Guyana donated $1.31.

The Guyanese Red Cross announced donations of over $250 million dollars to Haiti.

Ghana was number two with .018 of its GDP donated to Haiti. The average donated per person in Ghana was $0.13.

Canada had the highest per-person donations at $3.92 and 0.0087 of its GDP has been committed to Haiti.

The United States donated an average of $0.52 per person and has committed 0.0011 of its total GDP.                         Source:  www.examiner.com-Peter Paul - NewsLineToronto

 

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