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Taxback.com in Haiti
Taxback.com is an Irish-owned company which provides international tax, finance and travel support services to clients in more than 200 countries.
The company has offices in 19 countries including a new office in Haiti – which opened in October 2009. Taxback.com opened an office in Haiti to help create local jobs in the struggling nation. Former US President Bill Clinton has been leading the campaign to help rebuild Haiti through the Clinton Global Initiative.
Taxback.com’s office in Haiti is based in the Digicel building in Port-au-Prince, one of the few buildings least affected by the earthquake in the capital city. Thankfully all seven taxback.com staff are accounted for.
Taxback Haiti Manager Paddy Doyle
The company’s Haiti Office Manager Paddy Doyle returned to Ireland on Tuesday January 19th.
“I was up on the top level. When it happened it was just a colossal power, it all happened so quickly, so violently…one minute I’m in the office with one of my staff members discussing how we’re going to move forward for the month of January and the next thing we were running for our lives to get to the stairs,” Doyle says.
“Once we got outside it started to register with me what was happening – it was just sheer devastation out on the streets – bodies everywhere, people screaming for help. It’s so hard to register because it was everywhere.”
“The issue at the moment is how we can push forward to help. My focus will be on the children of Haiti now – so many kids have lost their parents – how they’re going to cope with that, whose going to take care of them.
Make a contribution to the Haiti Orphan Fund through the International Orphanage Development Programme and you can help bring desperately needed aid to the orphans in Haiti.