The Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Foreign Secretary David Miliband and DFID Secretary Douglas Alexander were urged by Ivan Corea of the UK Autism Foundation to help re-build the Autism Clinic in Haiti.

The call for help was made on Autism Sunday. The disability community in Haiti has been badly affected by the recent earthquake. The Autism Clinic was destroyed, leaving many children and adults with autism without any support.

UKAF also called on Her Majesty's Government to support families with autism and Asperger's Syndrome who are below the poverty line in the UK. The recession in Britain has plunged many more people into poverty. According to UK charities over a million children living in poverty are affected by disability.

There are families with autism and indeed adults with autism and Asperger's Syndrome  in the UK who are struggling to cope and the Government needs to reach out and help those who are below the poverty line. There are those in the UK who are even facing re-possessions of their homes. UKAF has appealed to all three political leaders, Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Nick Clegg to help and support the vulnerable and announce their policies for autism during the General Election.

Reverend Paul Harcourt, Vicar of All Saint's Church Woodford Wells, hosted the London Service for Autism Sunday  - on 14th February this year.During the service, Reverend Harcourt (who has a son with autism), interviewed autism campaigner Ivan Corea, who, together with his wife Charika, co-founded Autism Sunday. It is now a major disability event in the calendar, observed around the world.

Ivan and Charika Corea are parents and carers of a teenager with autism. Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Opposition Leader David Cameron had sent their best wishes for Autism Sunday 2010.

The UK Autism Foundation has urged the Government to help the poor in the UK and in Haiti. UKAF has been in touch with Gordon Brown, David Miliband and Douglas Alexander appealing to them to use a fraction of Britain's £18 million aid package to Haiti to re-build the Autism Clinic. Speaking at the London Service for Autism Sunday, Ivan Corea said he was deeply affected by the television coverage of disabled people in Haiti lying on the road, starving and dying - with no offers of help.

Hundreds of people attended the Autism Sunday service, they were joined by Treasury Minister Stephen Timms MP and a member of the Select Committe for Health, the influential autism campaigner in the House of Commons, Lee Scott MP.

Lee Scott has tabled early day motion 830 in the House of Commons, supporting Autism Sunday 2010. EDM 830 is being signed by parliamentarians of all parties. Lee Scott MP has also called for more support for parents, carers, children and adults with autism and Asperger's Syndrome.

For further information on Autism Sunday:
www.autismsunday.co.uk
www.autismsunday.blog.co.uk

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