Tsunami disaster funds

The Red Cross Red Crescent has launched an aid appeal for 50 million Swiss francs (appx £23 million, $44 million, 32 million euros) to support what it calls its largest emergency operation in decades- it says we've still only seen the tip of iceberg. Its appeal for 7.5 million swiss francs on the 26th of Dec was covered within 12 hours.

The Disasters Emergency Committee launched an appeal earlier today - you can only donate by telephone, via 0870 60 60 900. There's no online pay option and in fact the website doesn't mention the disaster. The DEC  is the umbrella organisation which launches and co-ordinates the UK's national appeal in response to major disasters overseas.

UNICEF: donate by phone on 08457 312 312 or online.

The Salvation Army has personnel organising food and medical aid in South East Asia and India and is asking for donations.

The UK Islamic Mission is  setting up an emergency relief fund and is working wih partners within the affected areas.

Medical Aid to Sri Lanka has its own appeal. Money goes into direct short term medical aid and to longer term projects for Sri Lanka.

Both the international and UK Medicin Sans Frontiers websites seem to be down at the moment, but you can donate there too if you can get on.

More Tsunami disaster funds

More useful numbers, from the Guardian today:

ETA: mandragora1 adds that in the UK ensure people should ask the charity in question to treat the donation as Gift Aid so that the charity can claim an additional 28% by way of tax relief.

The Guardian Christmas charity appeal is now helping Concern provide emergency relief to the victims of the tsunami.

Disasters Emergency Committee 0870 606 0900. Includes ActionAid, British Red Cross, Cafod, Oxfam, Save the Children, Christian Aid and World Vision. The committee is providing 3,000 lines for people to give donations and will be launching a television appeal later in the week.

Care International Donations can be made via the website careinternational.org.uk

World Vision Asia Earthquake Appeal 0800 088 088

Save the Children Tsunami Appeal Donations can be made on 0207 012 6400

British Red Cross Floods Appeal Donations can be made on 08705 125 125 or via redcross.org.uk, or send cheques to Asia Earthquake and Flood Appeal, British Red Cross, Freepost, LOM18968, Sheffield, S98 12A.

Blue Peter appeal online

Oxfam Earthquake and Floods Appeal Donations can be made by calling 0870 3332700 or at oxfam.org.uk

Scottish Catholic International Aid Fund Donations can be sent to SCIAF at 19 Park Circus, Glasgow, G3 6BE, or via the website sciaf.org.uk

Christian Aid 02076204444

Cafod Catholic Agency for Overseas Development 0500 858885

rahalia_cat has an excellent post listing useful links, articles and bloggers concerned with the floods.

damouse's banner and list of aids:


You can make a difference.
Just by spreading the call for help.

Update on tsunami relief funds

A previous post with useful links, addresses and telephone numbers for UK and international appeals is here. This is just to add that damouse has created a banner and an extensive list of aids:


You can make a difference.
Just by spreading the call for help.

mandragora1 adds that in the UK people should make sure they ask the charity in question to treat the donation as Gift Aid so that the charity can claim an additional 28% by way of tax relief.

rahalia_cat has an excellent post listing useful links, articles and bloggers concerned with the floods.

My week so far

Anyway, in between reading gay porn (MJJ, Saiyuki, here), drinking enough alcohol to fill a large bathtub and spamming mistressrenet with the Scissor Sisters I have managed to do exactly nil writing so far this week. I did do rather well in the sales though, with two skirts, a good wool coat and a pair of impractical corduroy shoes with diamante buckles that will inevitably tarnish. Such is life.  John Lewis is selling its Ginger and Cypress Body Soufflé at half price! It doesn't look much like a soufflé to me though, more like a tub of goo.

Incidentally, MJJ has a story she calls 'A Midsummer's Night's Dream set in Saiyuki-land' - Four Quarters. It's really something, one of those stories where everyone sleeps with everyone else. Very hard to carry off, but she does it wonderfully well.

As an aside, who amongst us can honestly say, when confronted with a picture of Sean Bean, that they don't get to the urge to cry Seaaan Beaaan very loudly and in a yearning tone of voice? Well, all right, perhaps not everyone, but you get my general state of mind when confronted with SB. Gosh this post is random. I shall finish with what I meant to do when starting out: two Scissor Sisters tracks are here, as yousendits:

Filthy/Gorgeous
Take Your Mama