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Digicel Group to donate $5m to Haiti relief effort
13/01/2010 - 13:26:08

Denis O'Brien's Carribean-based communications company Digicel Group is donating US$5m (€3.4m) to support relief efforts in Haiti.

It is also sending a team of people to the devastated region today to assess the damage done to communications infrastructure.

The money is being distributed through the NGO's leading the relief efforts.




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