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such_heights) wrote2011-01-15 01:56 pm
such_heights) wrote2011-01-15 01:56 pm
around the world
More than 500 people have died in devastating floods and mudslides in Brazil, with thousands more trapped. Save the Children are allocating money from their emergency funds to help children affected and are asking for donations.
In Sri Lanka, thousands of people are in emergency relief camps after flooding. According to Oxfam, over a million people have been affected. They are asking for donations to their emergency fund as they try to provide hygiene kits, tarpaulins, cooked food and bottled water to those affected.
Meanwhile, Medecins Sans Frontieres have a report on Haiti: one year on.
If anyone has any links or suggestions for ways to donate or help any of these three countries, please leave a comment and I'll edit them into the post.
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helpbrazil2011 auction community, and builtofsorrow suggests the Sri Lankan Red Cross, Brazillian Red Cross and the International Rescue Committee Haiti fund, which focuses in part on working with and for women. skywardprodigal wrote up a list of Haiti-related resources last year.
In Sri Lanka, thousands of people are in emergency relief camps after flooding. According to Oxfam, over a million people have been affected. They are asking for donations to their emergency fund as they try to provide hygiene kits, tarpaulins, cooked food and bottled water to those affected.
Meanwhile, Medecins Sans Frontieres have a report on Haiti: one year on.
If anyone has any links or suggestions for ways to donate or help any of these three countries, please leave a comment and I'll edit them into the post.
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helpbrazil2011 auction community, and builtofsorrow suggests the Sri Lankan Red Cross, Brazillian Red Cross and the International Rescue Committee Haiti fund, which focuses in part on working with and for women. skywardprodigal wrote up a list of Haiti-related resources last year.
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The Red Cross is responding in Sri Lanka, and while they don't seem to be asking for donations for that specifically at the moment, I imagine that if you donate to the Disaster Relief Emergency Fund, that goes to supplement the funds they've already released in response to that crisis. (I think you can also donate directly to the Sri Lankan Red Cross in order to ensure it goes to help them directly.)
The International Rescue Committee also just released a report on Haiti and has a fund dedicated specifically to their work there (I like them because a huge part of their work focuses on working with and for women).
I've had particular difficulty finding anything on Brazil, but as with Sri Lanka, the Brazilian Red Cross also accepts donations. That's all I've found though. :\
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