Comments on the Tsunami Disaster

[Michael Aivaliotis]

<p><strong>Over 145,000 deaths have been confirmed in 11 countries with Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India and Thailand worst hit.</strong></p>

<p>Indonesia says more than 94,000 died in the disaster.

In Sri Lanka, 30,190 are confirmed killed.

The number of people in India confirmed dead, or listed as missing presumed dead, has risen to 15,275.

Thailand's Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra says his country's death toll could rise to 6,000.

Please donate what you can to help the charities assisting there. Some of the charities helping follow:</p>

<ul>

<li><strong>Red Cross</strong> <a href="http://www.redcross.org.uk/Campaign.asp?id=38543" target="_blank">UK</a></li>

<li><strong>Australian</strong> <a href="http://www.redcross.org.au/ourservices_aroundtheworld_emergencyrelief_AsiaQuakeTsunamis.htm" target="_blank">Red Cross</a></li>

<li><strong>Oxfam</strong> <a href="https://secure.ga3.org/02/asia_earthquake04">Asian Earthquake & Tsunami Fund</a></li>

<li><strong>Oxfam</strong> <a href="http://www.oxfam.org.uk/what_you_can_do/give_to_oxfam/donate/asiaquake1204.htm" target="_blank">Oxfam UK</a></li>

<li><strong>Oxfam</strong> <a href="http://www.oxfamamerica.org/newsandpublications/press_releases/AsianFloods" target="_blank">Oxfam America</a></li>

<li><strong>Oxfam</strong> <a href="http://www.oxfam.ca/news/AsianEarthQuake_Floods/Oxfamresponds.htm" target="_blank">Oxfam Canada</a></li>

<li><strong>American Red Cross</strong> <a href="https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation-form.asp">International Response Fund</a></li>

<li><strong>AmeriCares</strong> <a href="https://www.americaresfoundation.net/donate/default.aspx?id=South%20Asia%20Earthquake%20Relief%20Fund">South Asia Earthquake Relief Fund</a></li>

<li><strong>CARE</strong> <a href="http://www.careinternational.org.uk/" target="_blank">International</a></li>

<li><strong>CARE USA</strong> <a href="https://donate.care.org/05/20180000/?source=170570020000">Asia Quake Disaster</a></li>

<li><strong>Direct Relief International</strong> <a href="https://www.directrelief.org/sections/support_us/d_donate_now.html">International Assistance Fund</a></li>

<li><strong>Médecins Sans Frontières International</strong> <a href="http://www.msf.org/donations/index.cfm">Tsunami Emergency Appeal</a></li>

<li><strong>Sarvodaya</strong> <a href="http://www.sarvodaya.org/">Relief Fund for Tsunami Tragedy</a></li>

<li><strong>Save the Children</strong> <a href="http://savethechildren.org/radio_asia_earthquake.asp">Asia Earthquake/Tsunami Relief Fund</a></li>

<li><strong>SEVA</strong> <a href="http://www.seva.org/ef.php">South Asia Emergency Fund</a></li>

<li><strong>UNICEF</strong> <a href="http://www.unicefusa.org/tsunami">South Asia Tsunami Relief Efforts</a></li>

<li><strong>World Food Programme</strong> <a href="http://www.wfp.org/">Tsunami Disaster Appeal</a></li>

</ul>

[Sarah83]

Hi!

I have donate, too!

For Germans: Spendenkonten

We had spent our holidays one time on Sri Lanka and much times on Phuket.

I don't know about people we met and found as friends...

My parents were in Sri Lanka this Christmas, their return flight to Germany was in the morning time of the fatal day.

It was very hard, I couldn't get through to them - you don't know if they were in the airplane or the mobile swims somewhere... but they miss the tsunami, they only noticed the earthquake.

In the afternoon I was so lucky to get a call connected signal from the mobile.

In fact they would like to elongate the holidays one week... and we aim to spend Christmas on Phuket at Patong...

Maybe we had an guardian angel