Catching Up

I’ve been completely out of the loop recently, so I’m still getting caught up on the tsunami news. It doesn’t help that the hyper-obsessive coverage by most news outlets makes the learning curve incredibly high. Wikipedia’s got the best information roundup I’ve seen so far. In the meantime, like the rest of you, I’d love to know how I can help. Lists of aid organizations like this are a little hard to digest, so if anyone out there has some suggestions, let me know.


posted by greg on December 30, 2004 @ 12:55 pm

9 comments

  1. http://www.doctorswithoutborders-usa.org/donate/

    You’ll get an option to direct your contribution to the tsunami victims.

    Go, Give, Have a Happy New Year!

    Comment by Stephen — December 30, 2004 @ 2:13 pm

  2. Sorry, the address I first posted is for if you’re donating from the U.S. (We need to donate more because our government won’t do it for us.)

    Here’s the address for Doctors Without Borders:
    http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/

    Comment by Stephen — December 30, 2004 @ 2:16 pm

  3. Try this “who they are/what they do” list: http://www.disasterrelief.org/GiveHelp/
    WaPo also has this list:
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34141-2004Dec29.html

    Comment by Robin Morris — December 31, 2004 @ 10:15 am

  4. Another good organization with a long track record (and there are many, by the way) is The American Friends Service Committee, http://www.afsc.org/default.htm.

    Comment by Suzy Grindrod — January 1, 2005 @ 9:03 am

  5. I’d like to see the American companies who have made so much money exploiting cheap labor in that area pony up with some generous contributions.

    Comment by Becky — January 1, 2005 @ 11:37 am

  6. One idea MoveOn.com spouted was to have a computer on at your New Year’s party, and to suggest to people that they donate while they celebrate. New Year’s Eve is over, but for those still celebrating, I think it’s a great party idea.

    Last night the party I was at generated over a hundred bucks in cash (which we donated to Direct Relief International), and I think if we could have had a computer on, so people could go to the website and pay by card, they’d easily have donated much more.

    Comment by dAnimal — January 1, 2005 @ 8:24 pm

  7. I second Direct Relief International - I did a bunch of research, and they seemed way up there in terms of percentage of aid that goes directly to those who need it. I gave my money through them.

    Comment by Diane — January 4, 2005 @ 10:32 am

  8. As I posted at my own place earlier today, I recommend Lutheran World Relief and its Wave of Giving program. One hundred percent of contributions to LWR’s Wave of Giving program goes to help people in need. For that reason, LWR has been named a top-rated charity (A+) by the American Institute of Philanthropy.

    http://www.lwr.org/

    Comment by Waveflux — January 4, 2005 @ 1:31 pm

  9. Here’s another donation link:
    http://www.uusc.org/programs/support_tsunami.html
    It’s the Unitarian Universalist Service Commitee’s site. They will be focusing on getting the fishing communities back on their feet.
    From today’s UUSC email:
    “The median annual income of Americans is $37,810,compared to $930 in Sri Lanka or $530 in India. So $100 can be a very significant contribution towards restoring, to the extent possible, wholeness to a family.”

    Comment by Robin Morris — January 5, 2005 @ 10:39 am

Copy link for RSS feed for comments on this post

Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time.