A helping hand
The world is beginning its biggest-ever aid effort to help millions of victims of the Asian tsunami. Australians who wish to assist can donate to appeals launched by Australian aid agencies. Agencies are seeking cash donations to enable them to locally source food, medicine and shelter. Oxfam
Donate online: http://www.oxfam.org.au/world/emergencies/asia_tsunami.html
Phone: 1800 034 034
Red Cross
Donate online: http://www.redcross.org.au/ourservices_aroundtheworld_emergencyrelief_AsiaQuakeTsunamis.htm
Phone: 1800 811 700
Send a cheque or money order to: GPO Box 9949 in your capital city
The Red Cross has also set up a web site to help survivors of the tsunami disaster contact their families across the world.
The site is www.familylinks.icrc.org
World Vision
Donate online: https://www.worldvision.com.au/appeals/asiaearthquake/
Phone: 13 32 40
In person: ANZ or National Australia Bank branches
UNICEF
Donate online: http://www.unicef.org/
Phone: 1300 732 240 or 1300 884 233
UNHCR
Donate online: http://www.australiaforunhcr.org.au/
Phone: 1300 361 288
Save the Children
Donate online: http://www.savethechildren.org.au
Phone: 1800 76 00 11
Medecins Sans Frontieres
Donate online: http://www.msf.org.au/support/sa.shtml
Phone: 1800 788 100
Salvation Army
Donate online: http://www.salvationarmy.org
Phone: 13 32 30
Caritas Australia
Donate online: http://www.caritas.org.au/
Phone: 1800 024 413
Australian Foundation of Asia and the Pacific (AFAP)
Donate online: http://www.afap.org/
Phone: 1800 007 308
Send a cheque or money order to: PO Box 12 Crows Nest NSW 1585
Sri Lanka Disaster Relief Fund
Phone: (02) 98048679 |