Comments on: Red Cross / Red Crescent Donations

By: bad Jim

bad Jim — Fri, 31 Dec 2004 09:15:49 +0000

What a lousy time to be reminded that God doesn’t like us very much. Reports that animals may have been spared His wrath could either confirm our narcissism or caution us for our lack of attention. In this damned year I skewed my tardy tithes towards Doctors w/o Borders and Unicef, scanting my alma mater and local charities. “If God lived on earth, people would break His windows.”

By: Jim Donor

Jim Donor — Thu, 30 Dec 2004 04:40:14 +0000

The CEO of the American Red Cross makes over $600K/year? I know they are one of the more efficient charities, but it still bothers me to give money to an organization with excessive executive compensation.

By: fred

fred — Thu, 30 Dec 2004 04:06:26 +0000

Eeks—It seems I just posted the snarky comment above in the comment box for the wrong post. It was meant for Henry’s post, “Partisan Football.” That’s what happens when I don’t have my morning coffee, I guess. Anyway, feel free to delete them both. Sorry about that.

By: Geoffrey

Geoffrey — Thu, 30 Dec 2004 04:04:43 +0000

I’ve just made a donation, so I finally feel free to make the somewhat grim point I’ve been mulling over for the past few days – the present estimates of 77,000 (which are probably only 50% or less of the final total for the tsunami) are about the same number of people who have died from AIDS in Africa since December 19th (i.e., 10 days ago).

By: fred

fred — Thu, 30 Dec 2004 04:00:04 +0000

Glad to see that Crooked Timber would never stoop so low as to suggest that not posting about a topic reflects a partisan lack of concern for it. Er, well, at least not very often: http://www.crookedtimber.org/archives/002017.html (I’m not saying the two are exactly alike, but there’s at least a family resemblance.)

By: Virendra

Virendra — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 20:41:56 +0000

Here’s another site with links to various organizations. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donations_for_victims_of_the_2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake

By: eszter

eszter — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 18:30:22 +0000

A list from AP (via NYTimes). Also, people may wish to consult the Charity Navigator site.

By: trish

trish — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 17:14:04 +0000

The Canadian Red Cross is accepting donations, even though it appears their site is struggling a bit from the amount of traffic.

By: Jon Mandle

Jon Mandle — Tue, 28 Dec 2004 17:54:06 +0000

Here’s CNN’s list of organizations accepting donations. http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/12/27/quake.aidsites/index.html

By: enwe

enwe — Tue, 28 Dec 2004 16:20:40 +0000

There are some photos available: http://www.pbase.com/issels/ phuket_tsunami&page=all

By: enwe

enwe — Tue, 28 Dec 2004 15:58:48 +0000

I just got a new number: There are perhaps 60 000 dead.

By: charlie bourne

charlie bourne — Tue, 28 Dec 2004 06:44:10 +0000

If any of you is interested, there The South-East Asia Earthquake and Tsunami Blog (SEA-EAT blog for short) has been set up bu bloggers in SEAsia, with news and information about resources, aid, donations and volunteer efforts. It is here: http://tsunamihelp.blogspot.com/ There is a list of aid agencies in US that you can contribute to in this posting: http://tsunamihelp.blogspot.com/2004/12/coverage-summary.html (For those of you interested only in using this disaster to pursue an impotent political vendetta, there is no doubt loads of amunition, but no direct confirmation of your priorities. Indeed, it includes this: “Thank You from all of us, particularly to the kind folk at World Changing, BoingBoing, SmartMobs, Rediff, Instapundit, Sepia Mutiny, Buzz Machine, AnotherSubcontinent and Joho The Blog and the scores of fellow bloggers who have linked to this blog and contributed to all that stunning number of page views (it’s less than twelve hours since that counter was set up). Thank you so much for helping spread the word. We knew we could count on you.”

By: Giles

Giles — Mon, 27 Dec 2004 23:57:28 +0000

I’ve got another idea on how to help here

By: Saheli

Saheli — Mon, 27 Dec 2004 22:41:06 +0000

Thanks for the information on the British Red Cross. I am maintaining a list of relief funds at my blog; please add more in comments if you know of them.

By: eszter

eszter — Mon, 27 Dec 2004 16:00:03 +0000

UNICEF (info on some of the things they did and continue to do in Bam)