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Starting today, you can now donate your unwanted car, truck, RV, or boat to help the vital work of CoAid.

The CoAid "Donate My Ride" vehicle donation program allows us to benefit from the sale of your vehicle and you benefit from a potential tax break.

UPDATE: August 1st, 2010

We're pleased to let you know that the construction of the transitional community in Darbonne, Haiti is well under way.

The people who will be living in this new housing are said to be "hanging around and very proud of their new shelters".

CoAid's contribution to this project was to lease the land on which the 175 shelters are being built. The shelters themselves are being built by Samaritans Purse with Haitian workers.

LITTLETON, CO, 29th July 2010 – Community Aid Relief and Development (CoAid), in association with Samaritans Purse and Promised Provision Ministries has started the construction of a transitional community in Darbonne, Haiti for victims of the recent earthquake.

Darbonne is located on the outskirts of Leogane which was at the epicenter of the January 12th 2010 earthquake where 80-90% of buildings were damaged.

In partnership with Samaritans Purse and Promised Provision Ministries, CoAid is helping provide temporary homes for up to 175 families in Darbonne, Haiti.

We have the opportunity to secure an ideal parcel of land for the construction of a community of 175 transitional shelters to be built by Samaritans Purse and Promised Provision. The land has trees for shade and has already been assessed as meeting the criteria for this type of construction. All that remains is to pay the landowner the agreed price of $2,000 for a 1-year lease.

Six months to the day after a powerful 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti, CoAid is still committed to sending healing and restoration to the country.

Right now, we have need for a construction engineer with many years professional experience to join a CoAid needs assessment team to travel to Haiti sometime late August or early September. You must have specific experience with earthquake/hurricane proof construction using concrete.

LITTLETON, CO July 12th 2010 – Community Aid Relief and Development announced today they have been awarded a $10,000 advertising grant from Google to promote their projects amongst communities affected by war and natural disaster.

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LITTLETON, CO 21st June 2010 -- Community Aid Relief and Development (CoAid) announced the official re-launch of their website, www.coaid.org, today. The new website follows a $25,000 grant from Chase bank which they won recently on Facebook.