SHE is the orphaned baby, starving after her mother was killed in the Haitian earthquake, whose life was saved with the help of Derby Telegraph readers.

The child was just two weeks old when her home collapsed in the quake, killing her mother.

Since the disaster on January 12, the baby has been cared for by a friend of the young Haitian mother, one of 200,000 crushed to death in the disaster.

But unable to afford milk, the friend had been feeding her cornmeal, and late on Thursday night, when the baby would not stop crying, she turned up at a clinic run by aid workers, desperate for help.

Doctors found it so difficult to communicate with her that they could not even find out the little girl's name. What they did realise was that she was starving.

The carer was given an Aquabox, paid for by Telegraph readers, which contains a water purification kit, a baby's bottle and clothes, and some condensed milk.

The young woman was shown how to use the Aquabox to get clean water to mix with the milk to dilute it so she could feed the baby.

Dr Raffeal Pineda, a doctor who has been volunteering with international charity Humanity First, said: "The baby girl was starving.

"She needed her mother's milk but her mother is dead.

"This milk and water should help save her."

This is just one of scores of stories of hope witnessed by the Derby Telegraph when we visited Haiti last week to see how the Aquaboxes bought by our readers were making a difference.

The country is on its knees, with the vast majority of people in the capital Port-au-Prince homeless.

Terrified of another earthquake and too poor to rebuild their homes, the people of Haiti are living in makeshift shelters in slums with no sanitation or clean water, relying on handouts of food to stay alive.

But the Aquaboxes, which have kits for removing deadly waterborne diseases along with essential welfare items, are seen as a Godsend by survivors.

One woman, who queued for hours to get one, danced around and waved her hands in the air. "This is what we need to stay alive," she said.

To donate to Aquabox, call us on Derby 253053 or e-mail cduffin@derbytelegraph.co.uk. You can send money to NatWest account number 53575113, sort code 60-14-15, call 01629 825 178, or post a donation to Aquabox, PO Box 5398, Matlock, Derbyshire DE4 4ZP, with cheques made payable to Aquabox.