Digicel yesterday announced it was continuing its efforts to aid the victims of the Haiti earthquake.

The Bermuda-based company said it planned to distribute thousands of six-person tents to shelter more than 100,000 Haitians whose homes were destroyed in the disaster.

Distribution was due to start yesterday, according to a press release, and was to last a week.

Specifically designed to resist heavy rains and for extended living, the tents will be distributed through organisations which have been assisting people in securing shelter since the earthquake.

"This initiative means that 100,000 Haitians currently living on the streets with inadequate shelter or in makeshift dwellings will be housed in one of these tents which provide improved shelter until a more permanent solution is found," Digicel Haiti CEO Maarten Boute said.

The tents have a 10x10-foot coated polyethylene 'bathtub' floor, separate from the tent walls — and give protection from groundwater.

Digicel Group CEO Colm Delves, said: "With the rainy season upon us, we are doing everything we can to improve conditions and give some of the one million homeless people in Port-au-Prince some dignity and protection."

Digicel says it has invested roughly $370 million in the couintry since it began operating there in2006, attracting two million customers.

The company's Haiti Relief Fund has donated $5 million to NGOs supporting the relief efforts, and to date over $800,000 has been raised by Digicel customers across the Caribbean and Central America through a text and voice donation line.