How to help from Kolkata
For those in Kolkata:
ABP Tsunami Fund:
Set up by the Telegraph and Anandabazar Patrika
Accepts cheques and bank drafts, to be mailed to or delivered to ABP Private Ltd, 6 Prafulla Sarkar Street, Calcutta 700 001. All contributions exempt from income-tax.
The Statesman Calamity Relief Fund:
Accepts cash/ cheque/ demand draft at The Statesman Ltd, Statesman House, 4 Chowringhee Square, Kolkata 700 001. An application has been made for income-tax exemption.
These organizations would prefer cheques or cash rather than donations of clothes, medicines etc:
Indian Red Cross Society
West Bengal State Branch
5 and 6 Government Place North
Calcutta -1
Mr B P Roy—2248-3636
Bharat Sevashram Sangha
211 Rashbehari Avenue
Kolkata-19
Phone numbers: 24405178/ 24402871/ 0673
Ask for Swami Prabhananda Maharaj
ABP Tsunami Fund:
Set up by the Telegraph and Anandabazar Patrika
Accepts cheques and bank drafts, to be mailed to or delivered to ABP Private Ltd, 6 Prafulla Sarkar Street, Calcutta 700 001. All contributions exempt from income-tax.
The Statesman Calamity Relief Fund:
Accepts cash/ cheque/ demand draft at The Statesman Ltd, Statesman House, 4 Chowringhee Square, Kolkata 700 001. An application has been made for income-tax exemption.
These organizations would prefer cheques or cash rather than donations of clothes, medicines etc:
Indian Red Cross Society
West Bengal State Branch
5 and 6 Government Place North
Calcutta -1
Mr B P Roy—2248-3636
Bharat Sevashram Sangha
211 Rashbehari Avenue
Kolkata-19
Phone numbers: 24405178/ 24402871/ 0673
Ask for Swami Prabhananda Maharaj
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Doctors without boarders site is down, go thru the Red Cross