The Devil's Point

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Posted by RLD on 14th January 2010

Sandstone Press has thrown itself behind WaterAid’s attempt to raise £300k by sponsoring The Devil’s Point in the charity’s coming Munro + 3000s Challenge. We also intend to enter at least one team and perhaps help in some other ways. Since it looks like we are the first company to do this we were preparing to toot our little trumpet when news broke of the earthquake in Haiti and its staggering consequencies.

The world has gathered round; no one more quickly than our author Chris McIvor’s employer Save the Children. Chris has, at an earlier stage in his career, spent time in the area and his thoughts will be very much there now.

WaterAid busies itself to great and good effect in the assistance of nations that are mostly at peace, that are climbing out of steady state poverty but that have notable water problems. Save the Children has wide interests including disaster relief. This is how it is in our world; there is the continuous building work that must go on no matter what, and there are disasters, such as this most recent to Haiti, where the world must react quickly and usually does. Then again there is the stupidity of war.

The disasters demand their immediate injections of resource, sudden increases in requirements that continue into extended aftermaths, while improvements to infrastructure in the world’s poorest nations, particularly improvements in water, must continue steadily. Both require all we have to give but are funded from the same sources, governments and charities. That would be The Devil’s Point if there was not already a mountain in the Cairngorms with the same name.

Our logo on the WaterAid Munro Challenge web site http://bit.ly/4xTEbQ
The WaterAid web site is at http://www.wateraid.org
WaterAid statement on Haiti http://bit.ly/5HYU9c