(photo source: nzherald.co.nz)
Skywatch and a still picture of the tsunami aftermath in American Samoa a few days ago.
(photo source: BBC News)
(photo source: BBC News)
Skywatch over Indonesia after the killer quakes a few days ago.
(photo source: BBC News)
(photo source: BBC News)~~Watery Wednesday meme entry~~
Twenty feet of floodwaters swallowed these houses, and so much more in a month's worth of rain that poured non-stop for 12 hours in the Philippines over the weekend.
My dear friends, here are a few more links to our desperate brothers and sisters
in the Philippines, Indonesia, and the American Samoa. Let us help them get their smiles back:
1. The Catholic Relief Services. It is the international humanitarian agency of the Catholic community in the United States. It provides assistance to people in more than 100 countries and territories based on need, regardless of race, nationality or creed.
This week alone, it has responded to 4 emergencies, including those in the Philippines and Indonesia.
To donate via phone: 1-877-HELP-CRS
To donate online: www.crs.org
To write a check: Catholic Relief Services
P.O. Box 17090
Baltimore, MD 21203-7090
(source: Thomson Reuters Foundation AlertNet - Alerting Humanitarians to Agencies)
2. To donate to Samoa (as I am not sure that it is included in the countries CRS serves, maybe so): please contact the American Red Cross
ARC - 1-800-RED-CROSS (1-800-733-2767)
Disaster Relief Fund:
American Red Cross
P.O. Box 37243
Washington, DC 20013 or your local ARC chapter
For a secure online donation: http://www.redcross.org/
Thank you, everyone, for your patience. Would you link this up to your site (write a short article) so maybe we can gather more readership and touch more humanitarian hearts? We can't help these countries enough. Their needs are immediate. Many, many thanks from the bottom of my heart.
Twenty feet of floodwaters swallowed these houses, and so much more in a month's worth of rain that poured non-stop for 12 hours in the Philippines over the weekend.
My dear friends, here are a few more links to our desperate brothers and sisters
in the Philippines, Indonesia, and the American Samoa. Let us help them get their smiles back:
1. The Catholic Relief Services. It is the international humanitarian agency of the Catholic community in the United States. It provides assistance to people in more than 100 countries and territories based on need, regardless of race, nationality or creed.
This week alone, it has responded to 4 emergencies, including those in the Philippines and Indonesia.
To donate via phone: 1-877-HELP-CRS
To donate online: www.crs.org
To write a check: Catholic Relief Services
P.O. Box 17090
Baltimore, MD 21203-7090
(source: Thomson Reuters Foundation AlertNet - Alerting Humanitarians to Agencies)
2. To donate to Samoa (as I am not sure that it is included in the countries CRS serves, maybe so): please contact the American Red Cross
ARC - 1-800-RED-CROSS (1-800-733-2767)
Disaster Relief Fund:
American Red Cross
P.O. Box 37243
Washington, DC 20013 or your local ARC chapter
For a secure online donation: http://www.redcross.org/
(source: the American Red Cross. org.)
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Thank you, everyone, for your patience. Would you link this up to your site (write a short article) so maybe we can gather more readership and touch more humanitarian hearts? We can't help these countries enough. Their needs are immediate. Many, many thanks from the bottom of my heart.
