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Eol007

For online donations etc.. UK based: -

www.dec.org.uk/

International Red Cross: provides resources for people who have lost contact with relatives in a conflict or crisis: -

www.familylinks.icrc.org

Gandalf

Yes, Just doing the rounds to encourage everyone to give what they can to the
Asia quake appeal.. dosent matter how much or how little.. I donated online
via the OXFAM website but if you dont have a card you could even go along to
your local oxfam shop, or any other charity involved with the flood relief
operation.

The OXFAM Asia disaster donation site can be reached by going to
www.oxfam.org.uk

(or www.oxfam.org for the rest of the world)


Cheers,
Douglas
"It is to Scotland that we look for our idea of civilisation." -- Voltaire.

Eol007

More donation contact details - Source BBC website

The Disasters Emergency Committee - www.dec.org.uk - is an umbrella group of UK aid organisations - including Action Aid, British Red Cross and Oxfam - working to provide clean water, food and shelter to thousands. To call from the UK, dial 0870 60 60 900.

The United Nations World Food Programme - www.wfp.org - is seeking donations to feed victims of the earthquake.

Medecins Sans Frontieres - www.msf.org - is sending aid workers to the region, focusing on medical care for survivors and displaced people after the rescue operations.

The United Nations Children's Fund, Unicef - www.unicef.org.uk - is working to meet the "urgent needs of hundreds of thousands of people" affected by the tsunami disaster.

The UN refugee agency, UNHCR - www.unhcr.ch - which has been helping victims of conflicts in Indonesia and Sri Lanka, is delivering relief supplies to tsunami survivors in both countries.

Save the Children - www.savethechildren.org.uk - has already flown a plane out to Sri Lanka carrying plastic sheeting for temporary shelter, tents to run children's services from and essentials such as clothing and cooking utensils.

Anti-poverty organisation Care International - www.care.org - has already provided food for thousands of affected people in Sri Lanka.

Cafod, the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development - www.cafod.org.uk - is working with partners across Asia to provide shelter, food aid and medical assistance, and assessing what further relief is needed.

The Red Cross, with its sister charity the Red Crescent, is supplying blankets, cooking utensils and other crucial goods. It has had to set up a new site - www.ifrc.org - because of the unprecedented demand from people wanting to make donations.

The Hindu Forum Disaster Relief Task Force - www.hinduforum.org - comprises 50 organisations and is raising money, clothes and medicines. Donations can be made online or by calling the ISKCON Disaster Appeal on 01923 856848 or Sewa International on 0116 261 0303.

Christian Aid - www.christianaid.org.uk - has already allocated £250,000 from its emergency fund to help the victims of this disaster but says more money is needed.

Christian charity Tearfund - www.tearfund.org - and its partners in Sri Lanka and India are helping devastated fishing communities and coastal villages get back on their feet.

Islamic Relief - www.islamic-relief.com - has also launched an appeal to provide medical supplies, tents and sanitation facilities for those affected.

The Islamic Aid Emergency Relief Fund - www.islamicaid.org.uk - aims to provide immediate relief and long-term support to people in the affected areas.

Another Islamic charity, Muslim Hands - www.muslimhands.org - is collecting money and sending volunteers to help in Indonesia and Malaysia.

Medair - www.medair.org - is providing emergency support to agencies with a long-term presence in Sri Lanka and its medical experts are assessing the likelihood of malaria and diarrhoea.

Handicap International - www.handicap-international.org.uk- is focusing its efforts on helping displaced people, disabled people and vulnerable groups such as pregnant women, elderly people and children. It is trying to raise £425,000.

World Vision - www.worldvision.org.uk - has also launched an appeal and has already delivered relief goods to thousands.

Concern - www.concern.net - is working with local partners to meet the needs of families in the devastated coastal villages of Tamil Nadu, the worst-affected state in India.

The International Rescue Committee - www.theirc.org - is providing emergency supplies and materials to "people most affected by the crisis".

The Salvation Army - www.salvationarmy.org.uk has local teams working in a number of affected areas and is sending a team from its international headquarters on Wednesday evening.

Muslim Aid - www.muslimaid.org - has already donated £100,000 towards the purchase of food, clothing and medicine in the region but wants to raise more.

Action Aid - www.actionaid.org - is the biggest charity working in south India. It is focusing its relief work on the coast of Tamil Nadu, where 7,000 people died. It is working on providing medical assistance and sanitation for the survivors.


Oxfam - www.oxfam.org - is active in Indonesia, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Sri Lanka and India. Their relief operations include distributing food packs and hygiene kits and setting up water and sanitation facilities.

Asia Quake Relief Appeal UK, a UK-based Sri Lankan organisation, is also raising money and can be e-mailed at asia-quakerelief@europe.com.

World Jewish Aid - www.worldjewishaid.org.uk - is working with local partners in India, Indonesia and other affected areas to help survivors threatened by water contamination and disease.

Hindu NGO Baps Care International - www.bapscare.org - is working in villages around Chennai in Southern India distributing food, drinking water, tarpaulins, utensils, stoves, clothes and blankets.

Goal teams - www.goal.ie - are at present working in Tamil Nadu in Southern India where they are distributing aid to 5,000 families.

A large team of doctors, engineers and logisticians are also in Sri Lanka.

Action Against Hunger - www.aahuk.org - has projects in about 40 countries, including Indonesia and Sri Lanka.

You can donate to all the campaigns via their websites.

Source BBC website

Eol007

Amma to dedicate One Billion to Reconstruct Homes

http://www.ammachi.org/

http://www.amritapuri.org/tsunami/billion.php

A friend sent me this thought: -

"Dear friends

For those of you who would like to give money/aid to the people of SE Asia but are reluctant to give to large charities and feel sceptical about the Aid reaching the people in need, maybe you would like to consider giving donations to Mother Amma who is an amazing Indian women who runs a number of humanitarian programmes.

Mother Amma is leading rescue, relief and rehabilitation operations all along the Indian coastline and is giving 1 billion rupees to reconstruct homes, schools and hospitals. Please see her web site to find out more. I feel its important to give to those working on the ground.

Many blessings to you all"

Nick

Thanks for posting those links Stephen. The outpouring of donations from people around the world is quite heartening.

By the way, there is a watchdog website that actually rates and grades charities (at least here in the US) regarding what percentage of donated funds ultimately is received by the victims.

If anyone is interested, here's the link:

http://www.charitywatch.org/ and also

http://www.charitywatch.org/hottopics/tsunami_asia.html


All the best,
Nick
"What lies before us, and what lies behind us, are tiny matters compared to what lies within us...." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Eol007

Hi Nick,

Thanks to you as well.

Best,


Stephen

RT

Becareful where and which organization you send money to.

Money is being diverted wrongly and stolen.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=535&ncid=535&e=4&u=/ap/20050125/ap_on_re_as/tsunami_34

QuoteIndonesia Faces Tsunami Corruption Charges

51 minutes ago

By YEOH EN-LAI, Associated Press Writer

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia - Indonesia on Tuesday moved to dispel charges that corrupt officials were siphoning off aid earmarked for tsunami-battered Aceh province, as Southeast Asian nations sought to lure back foreign tourists scared off by the disaster.

Envoys Work to Resolve Tsunami Aid Spat

Indonesia's Health Ministry, meanwhile, significantly changed the way it tallies deaths due to last month's waves, saying it would only count victims who have been buried and that the missing would retain that status for a full year.

The ministry's death toll dropped from about 170,000 to just over 96,000 under the new rules, but at the same time it added substantially to the missing, bringing the combined total of dead and missing from about 180,000 to 220,000. Most of the missing are presumed dead.

The new procedure also means that two of three Indonesian agencies tallying the dead now agree on a death toll after weeks of large discrepancies. The other, the Social Affairs Ministry, raised its death toll Tuesday by some 9,000 to 123,198 dead, with 12,046 missing.

Both Indonesia and Sri Lanka, the two worst-hit nations, have reported conflicting death toll figures — reflecting both the disaster's enormity and the difficultly of the task.

Sri Lankan officials were still unable to reconcile a discrepancy of more than 7,000 dead, with one ministry saying it has counted 38,195 bodies while another ministry puts the death toll at 30,957. President Chandrika Kumaratunga has been asked to intervene to sort out the problem.

Indonesia, one of the world's most graft-ridden nations, said it would publish a monthly list of aid donated for relief operations in Aceh province.

"We will announce every month, on the 26th, the money we receive," said Welfare Minister Alwi Shihab. "We will list down all contributions and where it is going to avoid any suspicion (of graft)."

Small-scale graft has already been reported, with some soldiers and government officials charging relief agencies "administrative fees" to escort convoys of trucks in Aceh or to process tents and other equipment arriving at Jakarta's airport, aid workers say.

One month after the killer waves ravaged coastlines in the Indian Ocean region, scaring away foreigners at the height of the tourist season, affected nations were trying to find ways to bring them back.

After the tsunami, many European governments, such as Denmark, Norway and Sweden, issued advisories to their citizens not to travel to devastated areas in Indonesia, India, Sri Lanka, Thailand and the Maldives. Some of the advisories have since been lifted.

Such warnings might lead to "the perception that the whole region cannot be visited," Malaysian Tourism Minister Leo Michael Toyad said at a two-day conference attended by tourism ministers from the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations.

The ministers, who wrap up the meeting in Malaysia later Tuesday, were expected to agree on a wide range of cooperation in tourism, including easing visa restrictions to boost travel by citizens within Southeast Asian countries.

In Banda Aceh, the provincial capital, a fire that started Monday night was still raging Tuesday across a debris-strewn area spanning half a mile. Gas cylinders among the ruins of homes were exploding as they caught fire.

No one was known to be living in the area, as much of it was flattened by the Dec. 26 tsunami. Firefighters said they were running out of water, and the debris made it hard for fire trucks to get closer to the blaze.

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Associated Press Writers Sean Yoong in Langkawi, Malaysia, Alexa Olesen in Beijing, Shimali Senanayake in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Raf Casert in Brussels, Belgium contributed to this report.