Tsunami Information and how to help:

""Indifference is the essence of inhumanity."
- George Bernard Shaw, Anglo-Irish dramatist and wit (1856-1950)

Child sleeping holding donated food

As the death tolls reach 120,000, about 40 World Trade Centers put together, and the possibility of that number doubling as days go by, the suffering remains unimaginable, the individual losses unthinkable. Close to 5 million people have become homeless overnight.

Children have lost their parents, parents have lost their children, their homes gone, their lives destroyed, and because nature proves its power without discrimination, people of all countries, all races, all religions, all economic status were violently hit.

The countries directly on the path of the Tsunami were:

Indonesia
Sri Lanka
India
Thailand
Somalia
Burma
Maldives
Malaysia
Tanzania
Seychelles
Bangladesh
Kenya

and tourists from all over the world were in the areas affected.

If you are looking for relatives or friends in the areas affected, here are some hotlines:

To contact representatives from India, call +91 11 2309 3054
To reach Thailand, call their emergency hotline at +66 2643 5262 and 2643 5000;
for Phuket enquiries call +66 076 240 729; +66 076 216 118; +66 076 223 141
For information about local residents in Sri Lanka, call +94 11 536 1938, for tourists the number is +94 11 243 7061
In the Maldives, the government hotline is +44 20 7224 2149
For more information on travelers in the Seychelles, call +248 321 676
Hong Kong residents who are stranded or require help should call the Immigration Department hotline on (852) 2829 3010
The United States has set up a toll-free number to call for information about American citizens in the region: 1-888-407-4747.

Some of the smaller islands are calling for help burying the dead because there aren't enough living to bury all the corpses.

It is time we do what we should do all along, and join in the effort to help those who need it so much.

Donations are being accepted by most of the relief organizations in the world right now, but for more specific links to the Tsunami victims please click on the links below:

Red Cross International
https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation-form.asp

United Nations
http://www.unhcr.ch/donate/redirect.html

Americares
https://www.americares.org/Donate/default.aspx

Save the Children
https://secure.ga3.org/01/helpasia?stationpub=hp_122704_release

Action Against Hunger
http://www.aah-usa.org/

American Jewish World Service
https://secure3.ctsg.com/AJWS/donation/

Islamic Relief
https://www.irw.org/donate/

Catholic Relief Services
https://www.catholicrelief.org/make_a_gift/contribute.cfm

Relief International
https://ssl20.pair.com/ri/donation_asia_earthquake.html

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