OT - Easy way to Donate to Tsunami Disaster Relief

[Stomp]

Mods - if you must move or delete so be it - but boards like this can really help motivate people, and I think this is a very worthy cause.

For everybody w/ an Amazon account here is a very easy way to donate to the Red Cross disaster relief efforts.

http://www.amazon.com/paypage/PX3BEL97U9A4I

Bless you all.

FYI, as of 5:45 PST on Wednesday totals are:

Total Collected: $3,083,364.68

# of Payments: 53221

[John Stone]

I'll be mentioning this in tomorrow's daily update with a link. The loss is almost incomprehensible.

[champien speller]

Originally Posted by John Stone

I'll be mentioning this in tomorrow's daily update with a link. The loss is almost incomprehensible.

thanks for the info, i'll be donating.

I have been to those island many times and was on phi phi island only last year. all those poor people, my heart goes out to them.

[dream]

Thank you for posting this link. Such a tragedy.
Every penny can help and maybe save a life :d_frown:

[marcus]

Good post, I'm donating. The total is now up to 3.85mill.

[Vires]

If you donate through the American Red Cross, over 60% of the money raised will never reach the victims. They will use some for overhead, put a lot of it away for future disasters, and in the end not alot will end up over there. It is alot more worthwhile to donate through the Thai Red Cross to make sure all your money gets there.
http://www.redcross.or.th/english/home/index.php4

[akm3]

Originally Posted by Vires

If you donate through the American Red Cross, over 60% of the money raised will never reach the victims. They will use some for overhead, put a lot of it away for future disasters, and in the end not alot will end up over there. It is alot more worthwhile to donate through the Thai Red Cross to make sure all your money gets there.
http://www.redcross.or.th/english/home/index.php4

I agree, but that doesn't mean donating to the red cross is a bad idea, the money put away for "future disasters" go to people in just as dire of straits, but maybe that didn't get enough publicity to get a huge public outpouring of support.

This tragedy is unbelievable though. The suffering there is just BEGINNING, so please contribute!
-Allen

[andi]

Here is a list of several aid groups accepting donations for earthquake/tsunami relief. My donation went to Doctors Without Borders because now the spread of disease will be rampant.

[1FastGTX]

Jump on that Amazon page and look at those numbers (yellow/brown box, on the right under the "Pay Now" button). Now click "refresh" a few times.

How come the numbers (money and donations) keeps changing so much? Up AND down, and not just a few bucks but by a lot. It was 78739, I hit refresh and it said like 75000, then immediately hit refresh and it was like 79000. The amount donated was doing the same thing.

I guess people are taking their donations back? Or maybe someone just doesn't know how to write code?

[eleonardo]

I'm donating to docs without borders as well.
The poor people there can use all the help they can get...

really tragic....