Please support Melissa's volunteering programme in Haiti.

Once in a while something or someone touches your life. This may not always be someone you know, or something you have a connection with. It may consume you in a way you didn’t think possible, but once it takes hold, you know that you have to everything you can to try and help.

On Tuesday, January 12th 2010, an earthquake registering at 7.0 hit the island of Haiti in the Caribbean. The earthquake has destroyed much of the already fragile and overburdened infrastructure in the most densely populated part of the country.