Assembly/AU/Decl.2(XIV) Page 2 6. ENCOURAGES Member States to provide scholarships to Haitian students affected by the disaster; 7. REQUESTS the Chairperson of the Commission to set up, as quickly as possible, in collaboration with the African Development Bank, an African Humanitarian Fund for Haiti to which all Member States are requested to make a contribution; 8. FURTHER REQUESTS the Chairperson to undertake bold action to mobilize funds from all segments of the African society; 9. CALLS ON Africans of the Diaspora to contribute to this Fund; 10. FURTHER REQUESTS the Chairperson of the Commission to examine the modalities of establishing an African humanitarian mechanism to provide a rapid response, in a coordinated, harmonized and efficient way, to serious humanitarian situations which could occur in Africa and in other parts of the world; 11. REQUESTS the African Union to send a mission to Haiti as soon as possible, to offer the sympathy and express the solidarity of all the peoples of Africa to the Haitian people. Adopted by the Fourteenth Ordinary Session of the Assembly in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on 2 February 2010