With hundreds of thousands of people displaced by floods in ten countries from Southeast Asia to the Horn of Africa, more contributions are needed. Help OneWorld partners in the U.S. provide short-term emergency assistance, such as water, food, blankets and personal hygiene kits, and long-term aid to help with reconstruction efforts.
- Read the latest tsunami stories from the OneWorld network.
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Action Against Hunger
Action Against Hunger has been working in Sri Lanka since 1997 and has a 75-member team in place, which will be increased by nearly a dozen specialists who will arrive early next week. The team will focus not only on immediate relief from hunger and disease but also on restoring Sri Lanka's self-sustainable sources of food and water.
A planeload of water pumps, tanks and purification equipment arrived on Dec. 28 sent by Action Against Hunger, and more deliveries are scheduled for the first week of January. These will supply additional water-and-sanitation equipment as well as 10 tons of high-nutrition biscuits that will provide enriched nourishment to beneficiaries. In addition, Action Against Hunger's team is currently working to forestall the spread of disease by digging latrines and by delivering bodies to hospitals and morgues for identification and burial. Action Against Hunger personnel are also assessing needs in other parts of Sri Lanka as well as in Indonesia to gear up additional relief programs.
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The Advocacy Project
The Advocacy Project (AP) is supporting an emergency appeal by its partner in Sri Lanka, the Home for Human Rights (HHR), on behalf of 171 Tamil families who lost their homes in the tsunami. The families are currently living in a refugee shelter in the Sri Lankan town of Batticaloa on the east coast. All donations to AP over the next two months will also be transferred immediately to HHR.
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American Friends Service Committee
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AFSC is supporting 40 Indonesian medical doctors working in remote parts of Aceh and northern Sumatra in the worst hit areas. A first contingent of 75 volunteers left Java for Aceh on Dec. 27. This second contingent of 40 will relieve them early next week. AFSC staff in Indonesia are partnering with the Indonesian organization, SHEEP (Society for Health, Environment, Education and Peace) which is part of a coalition of Indonesian non governmental organizations (NGOs) that is mobilizing volunteers and resources. The doctors are posted at three sites in the north --Banada Aceh, Lhoksumawe and Nias Island. AFSC funds are also purchasing food, medicine, water, tents and blankets for people whose homes were destroyed.
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American Red Cross
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The American Red Cross has dispatched a team of trained disaster relief experts to the devastated Bay of Bengal region, including a four-member Emergency Response Unit (ERU) team which specializes in relief supply distribution. Additionally, the American Red Cross sent an initial $30 million in aid to the affected areas, including $25 million for relief food supplies and $5 million non-food relief items, such as hygiene kits and tents for displaced families.
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Ashoka
Ashoka Fellows are leading social entrepreneurs who are recognized for having innovative solutions and the potential to change patterns across society. The network of Ashoka fellows are working together to exponentially increase the impact and reach of on-the-ground efforts through centralization, collaboration, and shared expertise. These Fellows work at the local level and mobilize support and relief for their communities. 100% of all funds donated will be given directly to Ashoka Fellows working on disaster relief in the affected areas (especially children and families in Sri Lanka and Indonesia). You may also email
tsunamirelief@ashoka.org to offer specific aid.
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CARE USA
CARE is mounting a comprehensive, multi-country emergency response that includes food, water purification tablets, shelter materials and basic medical supplies. Your contribution will help rush this lifesaving aid to India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Thailand.
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Food First
Via Campesina, a global alliance of peasant, family farmer, farm worker, indigenous and landless peoples organizations--an organization that works closely with Food First--is providing tsunami relief and rebuilding assistance. Via Campesina is providing direct emergency support to provide basic needs of food, clean drinking water, shelter and health care to fisherfolk and peasant communities affected by the tsunamis. They are also helping them with the long term work of reconstructing their communities and rebuilding their livelihoods. Your entire donation will be used for relief and rebuilding.
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Grassroots International
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Indonesia's National Federation of Peasant Organizations (FSPI) and Sri Lanka's National Organization of Fisherfolk (NAFSO) have organized rescue and relief teams in Aceh and North Sumatra Indonesia and in isolated communities in Sri Lanka. Other local organizations of fisherpeople, farmers, and indigenous people around the rim of the Indian Ocean are launching similar efforts in their own home towns.
With decades of community work, they have built strong, representative membership organizations in their communities. These organizations can make sure aid is used not to deepen poverty and dependency, but to build viable rural livelihoods. Their on-the-ground networks make them good candidates to relieve logistical bottlenecks and navigate complex politics; they have an agility and a knowledge of the local scene that no international aid organization can match. Grassroots International, with over 20 years of experience in progressive international development and human rights work is proud to support their life-giving and social change efforts.
You can support their work through an online donation to Grassroots International and follow the Grassroots Journal online for updates from the field.
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GlobalGiving
Help tsunami survivors directly by donating to projects run by local organizations working in the region. 100% of your tax-deductible donation will go directly to relief efforts. From medical camps to sanitation supplies, you can choose exactly which relief efforts your money will support.
They have partnered with several organizations including Give India to provide you with the opportunity to help those affected by the disaster in a direct, concrete way. More projects in additional countries will be added in the coming days.
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InterAction
InterAction, a coalition of more than 160 US-based private relief, international development and refugee assistance organizations, has developed guidelines on the most appropriate ways to help those affected by overseas disasters.
InterAction members are accepting contributions for assistance that they or their affiliates are providing to those affected by the earthquake and tsunamis.
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Internews Network
Internews Network is helping to rehabilitate local media so they can serve their local audiences and broadcast essential humanitarian information. They have sent four emergency 30 watt FM 'suitcase' radio station kits to Aceh and Sri Lanka, and mobile phones, phone cards, computers, and second-hand radio recorders to their radio partners and journalists in Aceh and North Sumatra.
They have also created a "Journalist Support Fund" to provide small stipends that will allow local journalists to begin reporting again while the reconstruction happens. They are beginning the process of rebuilding local radio stations, providing equipment to stations, and training personnel. Your donation will help provide resources to jumpstart Internews' efforts to aid local media via staff and colleagues already in the region.
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Lutheran World Relief
Lutheran World Relief (LWR) has created a long-term rebuilding effort for the countries of South Asia affected by the tsunami. The initiative, called WAVE OF GIVING©, seeks to raise at least $5 million dollars to rebuild lives, create livelihoods and restore dignity for the tsunami victims. Specifically, this initiative will focus on:
- Building more elevated disaster shelters like the ones that survived this tsunami for shelter during high waters from cyclones, tsunamis and other storms.
- Providing locally available building materials to rebuild homes and businesses.
Provide psychological counseling to survivors dealing with loss of loved ones.
- Training community-based groups in disaster preparedness, early warning, evacuation and first aid.
- Restoring small businesses for fisherfolk, farmers and others.
- Repair or rebuild clinics, schools and community centers.
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MADRE
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MADRE is raising money to send to INFORM, a Sri Lankan umbrella organization capable of reaching out immediately to many different communities throughout the region. Funds will be used to establish and equip emergency health centers where survivors can receive the emergency medical attention and clean drinking water and displaced women and families can receive crucial trauma counseling, which will help them cope with the deaths of their children and other loved ones.
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Mercy Corps
Mercy Corp's global emergency team is delivering critical food, water, and other provisions to survivors in devastated areas, including Indonesia's Aceh province.
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NetAid
Among the areas hardest hit are Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu, India, the sites of two NetAid World Schoolhouse projects. In the coastal Krishna District of Andhra Pradesh, NetAid and its partners Sanghamitra Service Society and STA Travel have been enrolling thousands of children, many of them employed in the local fishing industry, in school. Farther south along the coast, in the state of Tamil Nadu, NetAid and partners the Centre for Social Reconstruction and Cisco Systems have been ensuring that more than 15,000 children could get an education.
NetAid has been in direct contact with the heads of these two projects, and they have detailed the extreme devastation in their areas. Survivors who are desperately trying to pull their lives back together face a double challenge: scrambling to pull together emergency resources like food, water, clothing and shelter, they must also tackle more long-term needs for healthcare, counseling and the support for children to return to school.
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Oxfam America
Oxfam is sending food and water to help thousands of people affected by the devastating tsunamis that struck coastal areas of several Asian countries. Over 90% of emergency funds go directly to saving lives in the affected areas.
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Pan American Health and Education Foundation
The Pan American Health and Education Foundation, a supporting foundation of the Pan American Health Organization and a close partner of the World Health Organization (WHO), is collaborating in the historic humanitarian relief and recovery work in Asia. They are working together with WHO Headquarters in Geneva as well as with the Pan American Health Organization, which serves as the WHO regional office of the Americas, to help raise funds to provide medicines, ensure access to safe drinking water, prevent disease outbreaks and send health experts to the areas affected by the tsunami in southern Asia.
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Refugees International
Refugees International has launched missions to Sri Lanka and Indonesia to focus on caring for displaced people and devising programs to help the displaced rebuild their homes and communities as quickly as possible.
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World Vision
Your gift today will rush food and Family Survival Kits to Asian countries affected by the Dec. 26 earthquake and tsunami, and provide other relief as needed. Each kit provides things like blankets, tarps for temporary shelter, water purification tablets and cooking supplies. We will also provide other critically needed relief response, such as food or medicine, where needs arise.
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