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120,000 Mexicans make phone donations to Haiti

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Updated: 2010-02-04 13:25
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MEXICO CITY: Over 120,000 Mexicans donated a total of 32.8 million Mexican pesos (US$2.5 million) to earthquake victims in Haiti through the Carlos Slim Foundation, said the foundation on Wednesday.

The foundation,  run by Mexico's richest man, Carlos Slim, doubled the figure as it has promised to give out another peso for each donated peso from Mexican citizens.

The money collected will be used to assist the reconstruction and modernization of Haiti, said the foundation,

Immediately after the earthquake, Mexico sent 13.8 tons of humanitarian aid, including food, vegetables, clean water, power generators and satellite telephones to Haiti.
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