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Monday 3 January, 2005

Snapshot of Indian Ocean Tsunami - 0200 GMT

* Starving people besiege U.S. and Indonesian helicopters carrying food and clean water as they manage to land for first time on northwest Sumatra coast

* 1.8 million victims of the Asian tsunami need food aid, U.N. official says

* Tropical rains in Indonesia's Aceh province and flooding in Sri Lanka halt some aid deliveries

* U.N. refugee agency starts 400-tonne airlift as part of $2 billion relief operation

Source: AlertNet
4 Comments Post a Comment
Anonymous Anonymous said :

is there any blog that offers summarised details on the tsunami preferably in indonesia??

Mon Jan 03, 08:55:00 am IST  
Anonymous Anonymous said :

Has anyone heard of any assistance or donations coming out of Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, or from Austria & Switzerland??????

Mon Jan 03, 09:22:00 am IST  
Blogger Sandra said :

Microsoft has committed at least 3.5 million toward the relief efforts:

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2004/Dec04/12-30TsunamiStatementPR.asp

Mon Jan 03, 09:26:00 pm IST  
Anonymous Anonymous said :

About Microsoft and Bill Gates and al the other rich (oil)people in the world...
I was thinking the same: where is the money, boys!!
It's ok microsoft as a company gives 3.5 mil, but what does Bill Gates do personaly????? He is one of the super multimilionaires in the world.
Donate!!!!
frank from Belgium

Fri Jan 07, 07:58:00 pm IST