I guess I know where my five bucks is going this month. 44,000 dead and rising, holy crap.
Here's a list of aid agencies compiled by CNN; here's a BBC page on aid (look for the "How You Can Help" box two-thirds of the way down). I haven't even had a chance to look at all these links myself, but I'm hoping somewhere there will be a collection of actual items as well as money. I mean I don't have much to give, but I have more clothes and blankets and such than I need and maybe it is time for someone else to have them, if they do not mind using my old stuff. If anyone hears about a collection of such things, let me know, eh?
UPDATE: Here's one clothing drive: Reachout India is trying to help families in and around Chennai. Of course, I don't know how the hell it would get there; I bet the mail is not working so well.
Here's a blog entry with lots of aid advice and ideas; the blog itself also contains first-hand information on the situation there.
FURTHER UPDATE: the Red Cross advises against donations of goods, which makes sense when you think about it, so save it for the Planet Aid boxes I guess. Or maybe there will be a need for such things later, when things are more sane.
Posted by hilatron at December 28, 2004 12:05 PM | TrackBackAs of 10 p.m. Tuesday night, the death toll was up to 63,000 -- and expected to double that as disease begins to fell survivors.
In addition islands near Sumatra have shifted an unknown distance, and the force of the quake has increased the tilt of the earth's axis by about an inch, upping its rotational speed by about a half-second per day.
Prayer for survivors, helpers, and governments as they struggle with the sequelae.
Posted by: Doombot at December 28, 2004 10:03 PM