Tsunami Asian Disaster Links - PLEASE Help:
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- Wikipedia
- The Disasters Emergency
Committee - group of UK aid organisations - including Action Aid, British
Red Cross and Oxfam - working to provide clean water, food and shelter
to thousands.
- The United Nations World Food
Programme - donations to feed victims of the earthquake
- Medecins Sans Frontieres -
focusing on medical care for survivors and displaced people after the rescue
operations.
- The United Nations Children's
Fund, Unicef - is working to meet the "urgent needs of hundreds
of thousands of people"
- The UN refugee agency, UNHCR - has been
helping victims of conflicts in Indonesia and Sri Lanka, is delivering relief
supplies to tsunami survivors in both countries.
- Save the Children -
children's services from and essentials such as clothing and cooking utensils.
- Anti-poverty organisation
Care International - food for thousands of affected people
- Cafod, the Catholic Agency
for Overseas Development - 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.
- The Hindu Forum Disaster
Relief Task Force - comprises 50 organisations and is raising money,
clothes and medicines
- Christian Aid -
from its emergency fund to help the victims of this disaster
but says more money is needed.
- Christian charity Tearfund -
and its partners in
Sri Lanka and India are helping devastated fishing communities and coastal
villages get back on their feet.
- Islamic Relief -
provide medical supplies, tents and sanitation facilities for those affected.
- The Islamic Aid
Emergency Relief Fund - provide immediate relief and long-term support
to people in the affected areas.
- Muslim Hands -
sending volunteers to help in Indonesia and
Malaysia.
- Medair - 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 - focusing its efforts on helping displaced people, disabled
people and vulnerable groups such as pregnant women, elderly people and
children.
- World Vision -
has already delivered relief goods to thousands.
- Concern - needs of
families in the devastated coastal villages of Tamil Nadu, the worst-affected
state in India.
- The International Rescue
Committee - emergency supplies and materials to "people most affected
by the crisis".
- The Salvation
Army - has local teams working in a number of affected areas
- Muslim Aid - food,
clothing and medicine in the region
- Action
Aid - is the biggest charity working in south India.
- Oxfam - 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 - working with local partners in India, Indonesia and other affected
areas to help
- Hindu NGO Baps Care International -
working in villages around Chennai in Southern India distributing food, drinking
water, tarpaulins, utensils, stoves, clothes and blankets.
- Goal teams - present working
in Tamil Nadu in Southern India where they are distributing aid
- Action Against Hunger -
has projects in about 40 countries, including Indonesia and Sri Lanka.
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- You can donate to all the campaigns via their websites. Please help.
"Whatever the mind can Perceive and Conceive, it can Achieve" (Napeleon
Hill)