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Sunday, January 02, 2005

Direct Aid for Tsunami Victims

I’d like to once again recommend some agencies that are offering direct aid. It is more cost-effective to bypass large bureaucracies like Oxfam, CARE, World Vision, American Red Cross, UNICEF, and Save the Children and deal directly with people engaged in the relief effort on the ground. Those large agencies have the potential to do some important work...but whether they do or not, they will leave the area when the next world crisis hits. The three groups below have been in the area for the long haul and aren’t going anywhere.



These two I have recommended before:

Sarvodaya is a group doing direct relief and humanitarian work in Sri Lanka:
Sarvodaya

For the hardest hit area, the terribly war-torn Aceh, try:
ETAN
(and have a look around http://www.etan.org for good background on the area)

This last one came to me from the animal rights group, FARM:
The eleven Indian vegetarian grassroots coalitions that we support through the Sabina Fund are located in Tamil Nadu, where 8,000 people have been killed and 1.5 million displaced. They represent 80 local groups. Most are currently engaged in relief work and have appealed to us for extra financial help. We are wiring them $1,000 this afternoon, but we would like to send them 80 times that. 

Please help relieve this global tragedy by making a generous donation to FARM’s Emergency Relief Appeal by: giving online FARM (select Sabina Fund as the program to support); calling 1-888-ASK-FARM with your credit card information; or mailing your contribution to: FARM’s Emergency Relief Appeal | 10101 Ashburton Lane | Bethesda, MD 20817. 

The Tamil Nadu coalitions supported by the Sabina Fund are listed below: 
Community Development Center
Deepalaya
Indian Social Service Institute
People’s Association for Rural Women Development
People’s Organization for Rural Education & Economic Development
Rural Interdisciplinary Development Society
Society for Community Development
Network Organization for Vegan Promotion
Society for Amelioration of the Poor and Downtrodden
Women’s Emancipation and Development Trust
Women’s Organization for Rural Development

If anyone else has suggestions for direct aid, please share…

Posted by Mickey Z on 01/02 at 09:21 AM
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