Coverage Summary
WorldChanging has a very good summary about the Tsunami and its coverage from different news outlets for those of you who are visting this site for the first time:Here's a list of aid agencies (Requires Free Registration) in US that you can contribute to. Here are the URLs for those for easy reference:
American Red Cross
http://www.redcross.org
Care USA
http://www.careusa.org
Direct Relief International
http://www.directrelief.org
International Medical Corps
http://www.imcworldwide.org
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
http://www.ifrc.org/
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Raising Funds
http://www.jdc.org
Lutheran World Relief
http://www.lwr.org
MAP International
http://www.map.org
Mercy Corps
http://www.mercycorps.org
Operation USA
http://www.opusa.org
Oxfam America Asia Earthquake Fund
http://www.oxfamamerica.org
Save the Children
http://www.savethechildren.org
US Fund for UNICEF
http://www.unicefusa.org
World Concern
http://www.worldconcern.org
World Vision
http://www.worldvision.org
Please add any other aid agencies that you may be aware of in the comments section
American Red Cross
http://www.redcross.org
Care USA
http://www.careusa.org
Direct Relief International
http://www.directrelief.org
International Medical Corps
http://www.imcworldwide.org
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
http://www.ifrc.org/
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Raising Funds
http://www.jdc.org
Lutheran World Relief
http://www.lwr.org
MAP International
http://www.map.org
Mercy Corps
http://www.mercycorps.org
Operation USA
http://www.opusa.org
Oxfam America Asia Earthquake Fund
http://www.oxfamamerica.org
Save the Children
http://www.savethechildren.org
US Fund for UNICEF
http://www.unicefusa.org
World Concern
http://www.worldconcern.org
World Vision
http://www.worldvision.org
Please add any other aid agencies that you may be aware of in the comments section
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This is a redundant list, less complete than yours, but you might find it helpful. Best of luck, and thanks for this blog!
For emailing purposes please try: http://snipurl.com/tsunamihelp
CNN has a very complete list, plus you can verify the worthiness of the charity
CNN: how you can help:
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/12/27/quake.aidsites/index.html
Check up on a charity: http://www.charitynavigator.org
I chose AmeriCares.org http://www.americares.org
CNN reported that your $100 through AmeriCares is equivalent to $3000 because they leverage donations by using the resources already in place.
I also like showing that America Cares. I care. I'm American and I want to help.
thanks.
American Jewish World Service (AJWS) is sending humanitarian aid to the people affected by the tsunami.
For several years, AJWS has partnered with 24 non-governmental, community-based organizations in the region on sustainable community development projects. AJWS is working with these local groups to assess needs and provide emergency relief - food, water, shelter and medicine - and long-term development support.
Donations for this relief effort are being sought and can be made by mail, phone or Web site: American Jewish World Service, Asia Tsunami Relief, 45 West 36th Street, 10th Floor, New York, NY 10018, 800-889-7146 or make a secure, online donation now (http://www.ajws.org). 95 cents of every dollar will go directly for relief.
Please send donations to the following two organizations who have done extraordinary seva work during the Bhuj earthquake and are now engaged
in Tsunami relief/rehabilitation operations. Dhanyavaadah. Dr. S. Kalyanaraman
India Development Relief Fund (IDRF)
4807 Phebe Ave.,
Fremont, CA 94555
Send your donation checks to the above address.
Dr. Devendra Nayyar MD (410) 529-8345 http://www.idrf.org/
bharatavarsha@yahoo.com
SEWA INTERNATIONAL
Apte Bhavan, 10196, D. B. Gupta Road, Jhandewala, New Delhi- 110055, India
Ph: 91-11-23517373, 23684445,
http://www.sewainternational.org/dynamic/ E-mail: sewain@vsnl.com
Send your donation checks to the above address. Bank Account No:
21290, State Bank of India, Jhandewala Extn., New Delhi-110055 Branch
Code No: 9371
Appeal to help Tsunamis affected people of coastal Southern India
Giant Tsunamis unleashed by a massive undersea earthquake in distant
Sumatra lashed coastal southern India on Sunday morning, killing
several thousands people and affecting millions of people in Tamil
Nadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Pondicherry and Andaman and Nicobar
Islands. Worst affected is the fishermen community who generally
reside along the coast.
http://in.rediff.com/news/2004/dec/27an.htm
http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/gallery/0281/0281i001.htm
Volunteers from Sewa Bharati, Jana Sankshema Samiti, Vivekanand Kendra
and several other organizations have swung into action and are
providing the much-needed rescue and relief services to the victims.
Emergency medical services including medicines, food packets, drinking
water, clothes are being provided. A quick survey is also being done
to estimate the destruction. All of us should join this effort in this
hour of crisis.
Sewa International in association with local organizations, is
planning to work for the rehabilitation of affected families
including:
• Medical services
• Distribution of fishing nets, assistance for purchasing and
repairing fiber boats
• Repair of diesel engines and supply fuel
• Distribution of textbooks, notebooks and uniforms to students.
• Construction of houses.
• Repair and construction of community infrastructure.
Sewa International makes an appeal to come forward and help us serve
those affected by the killer Tsunamis.
All inland donations should be sent to:
1. Sewa Bharathi Tamil Nadu
Shakti, 1, M.V. Street, Pachvati, Chetpet, Chennai- 600031, Tamil Nadu
Ph: 044-28361049, 28360243 E-mail: sevabharthitn@yahoo.com
2. Jana Sankshema Samiti
Madhava Sadhan, Kaleshwara Rao Road, Vijaywada- 520002, Andhra Pradesh
All donations from outside India should be sent to:
Sewa International
Apte Bhavan, 10196, D. B. Gupta Road, Jhandewala, New Delhi- 110055, India
Ph: 91-11-23517373, 23684445, E-mail: sewain@vsnl.com
Bank Account No: 21290, State Bank of India, Jhandewala Extn., New Delhi-110055
Branch Code No: 9371
if ur in singapore:
Sri Lankan airlines appealing for donation items to Sri Lankaand
Singapore Red Cross is appealing for money donations. The money donated to this emergency appeal will be used to fund purchases and direct delivery of emergency items like medicine and first aid, food parcels and other relief supplies for the displaced and homeless victims.
Hello,
for people living in Germany, they should see to donate at the following sites; these are organizations who have already deployed teams in the regions and/or are sending in material help:
Deutsches Rotes KreuzABS - Arbeiter Samariter BundAerzte ohne Grenzen - Doctors Without BordersSOS Kinderdoerfer International
to donate from Belgium
(in french)
http://www.caritas-int.be/
http://www.croix-rouge.be/code/presse.cfm?id_page=162&id_presse=132
http://www.unicef.be/home_sub/detail.cfm?menu_id=465&lang=1&setCookie=1
http://www.msf.be/fr/aider/don.htm
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Just wanted to post for the CANADIANS as we often get forgotten but I figured at a time like this it would be helpful if Canadians also knew where they could go to help.
Canadian Red Cross
www.redcross.ca
1-800-418-1111
(or donate through your local Red Cross office)
UNICEF Canada
www.unicef.ca
1-800-567-4483
UNICEF Canada
2200 Yonge St., Suite 1100
Toronto, Ont.
M4S 2C6
Oxfam Canada
www.oxfam.ca
1-800-466-9326
Asian Earthquake/Floods Relief, Oxfam Canada
200-215 Spadina Avenue
Toronto, Ont.
M5T 2C7
World Vision Canada
www.worldvision.ca
1-800-268-5528
CARE Canada
www.care.ca
1-800-267-5232
Mennonite Central Committee
www.mcc.org
1-888-622-6337
Salvation Army
www.salvationarmy.ca
Donation line: 1-800-725-2769
Canadian Tamil Congress
416-751-8777
Canadian Relief Organization for Peace in Sri Lanka
416-429-2822
Indonesian Embassy in Ottawa Tsunami relief fund
Call the embassy for details: 613-724-1100
Médecins Sans Frontières
www.msf.ca
1-800 982-7903
ICNA Relief
www.reliefonline.org
1-866-637-4357
Thank you for thinking about the Canadians, it will be helpful for alot of us to know where we can turn.
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CSFH Urges Responsible Giving in the Wake of Tsunami Tragedy
Friends,
It is time to give and give generously. As the death toll climbs past 150,000 and the world comes to grips with the devastation caused by the deadly Indian Ocean tsunamis, numerous organizations across Asia are stepping up to organize relief and rehabilitation. We at the Campaign to Stop Funding Hate (CSFH) urge all individuals in the U.S. and elsewhere to support them by donating generously.
However, our responsibility does not end with giving. It is also our combined responsibility to ensure that our funds do not end up in sectarian hands, and that this tragedy does not turn into another opportunity for communal groups to gain foothold in our plural society.
KEEPING ACCOUNTABILITY, SOCIAL JUSTICE ON THE AGENDA
The response to the tsunami tragedy in the US has been heartening, with hundreds of dedicated volunteers making enormous effort to raise resources for relief operations in India and elsewhere. Many of these groups have a long history of carrying out grass-roots, non-sectarian development work in India, and have been able to effectively mobilize their networks at this time to administer relief. They can be counted upon for working closely with affected communities in a transparent and accountable manner. The immense loss of life in Sri Lanka, Indonesia and Thailand, makes it incumbent on us to consider giving to our suffering Asian neighbors, either through transnational organizations or through informal networks of local community-based organizations. (See below for a partial list of such organizations).
Many of us are also members of a variety of linguistic, regional and cultural associations. Because of their social and cultural affinities, such organizations are well equipped to intervene in on the ground activities. Precisely because of these reasons, sectarian groups try to use them as vehicles to advance their own agendas. We therefore urge you all to not only take an active part in the fund raising activities of these organizations but also be involved in discussions on how and where the funds are to be used. Disasters of this kind are occasions when we should be on high alert to keep social justice at the top of the agenda.
STAY CLEAR OF SECTARIAN GROUPS SUCH AS IDRF, HSS, SEVA INTERNATIONAL AND VHPA
Please remember the lessons of past natural calamities: Latur earthquake in 1993, Orissa cyclone in 1999 and the massive earthquake that shook Gujarat in 2001. Sectarian groups in the guise of non profits have swooped in on these areas engulfed in tragedy (funded in large part by unsuspecting donors in the US) and established their presence in the grief-stricken communities on the pretext of providing relief. Not only did this lead to unequal disbursement of relief among various communities, but it also caused further fracturing of these struggling communities along lines of caste and religion.
This time too, the India Development and Relief Fund (IDRF), Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh (HSS), Sewa International and Vishwa Hindu Parishad-America (VHPA) have all put out appeals for Tsunami relief. CSFH has done extensive research on these groups and traced their linkages to the parent organization in India: the violent and anti-minority Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). (See http://www.stopfundinghate.org for details.) Affiliates of this organization have been implicated by numerous national and international human rights groups as having engineered the anti-Muslim Gujarat pogroms in 2002 and the anti-Christian violence in 1998-2000. RSS itself is a secretive organization, openly sectarian in its operations, and is not legally permitted by the Government of India to accept funds from abroad; consequently, its US affiliates (IDRF, HSS etc.) are raising funds for organizations like Sewa Bharati, Jana Sankshema Samiti and Vivekananda Kendra in India, all of which are intrinsic parts of RSS operations in India and follow its divisive ideology.
We urge everyone to make the responsible choice in favor of supporting secular groups with a long-standing commitment to the pluralistic ethos and democratic ideals of India. On our part, we are following up on our work of the past several years some of which is documented at http://www.stopfundinghate.org . We will be happy to assist you with any information and would really appreciate it if you will alert us to the debates and discussions that you are involved in by emailing us at info@stopfundinghate.org
We are building a FAQ to be posted on our site and it will be helpful to know the kinds of questions being raised. Meanwhile, please feel free to use the list below as a starting point to identify the kind of organizations that are worthy of support.
Thank you
CSFH (http://www.stopfundinghate.org)
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A partial list of non-sectarian, grassroots groups involved in relief operations:
1. AID - Association for India’s Development
http://www.aidindia.org/CMS/
2. American India Foundation
http://www.aifoundation.org/
3. Asha For Education
http://www.ashanet.org/
4. India Literacy Project
http://www.ilpnet.org/news/Tsunami/index.html
5. India Relief and Education Fund
http://iref.homestead.com/
6. Indians for Collective Action
http://www.icaonline.org/
7. Pratham
http://www.prathamusa.org/
8. Singh Foundation
http://singhfoundation.org
9. Vibha
http://www.vibha.org/emergencyrelief/
These groups are partnering with various mass-based organizations and NGOs in India, such as the Tamil Nadu Science Forum, the National Fishworkers Forum, Vidyarambam, APVVU (agricultural workers’ union in AP), People's Watch, Bharathi Trust and Bhoomika Trust.
Among international organizations, Doctors Without Borders is reputed to be the most committed and experienced with meeting disasters with professional expertise. http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org
The International Red Cross has country specific operations which may be accessed and supported through the following links:
Sri Lanka: http://www.icrc.org/Web/Eng/siteeng0.nsf/html/sri_lanka!Open
Indonesia: http://www.icrc.org/Web/Eng/siteeng0.nsf/html/indonesia!Open
Thailand: http://www.icrc.org/Web/Eng/siteeng0.nsf/html/thailand!Open
Additionally, we urge you to also spread the word about the Red Cross's 'Family Links' initiative which helps locate separated family members throughout the affected region. You can find out more about this from http://www.icrc.org/home.nsf/home/webfamilylinks