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Here's a list of Aid/Relief agencies I received today. It might be useful to whoever wants to make a contribution towards relief and rebuilding for the disaster in Asia.

Contributions directly to the banks through their branches
1) State Bank of India
2) Central Bank of India
3) Union bank of India
4) Dena Bank
5) Syndicate Bank
6) Corporation Bank
7) Bank of India
8) Indian Overseas Bank
9) Punjab National Bank
10) Indian Bank
11) Allahabad Bank
12) Citi Bank
13) Contributions can also be sent through Money Orders with no commission chargeable.

Indian Red Cross Society,
Red Cross Building,
50 Montieth Road,
Egmore,
Chennai-600008.
Ph : 044-8554548, 8554117 (R) 4980971, 8511711 BB-8554425
Fax : 8586997
Telegram : "SAMARITAN"
email: ircstnb@vsnl.net , web: www.indianredcrosstnb.com
Cheques or DDs should be in favour of "SECRETARY GENERAL, INDIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY, NEW DELHI -
1", payable at New Delhi. (The contributions are exempted under section 80G of the Income Tax Act, 1961. )


Non-institutional short term contributions in kind. For instance, plan to collect clothes, food etc and want to send it across directly to the relief teams, here are two organisations that are actively involved and need relief support.
M. Subbu
Tamil Maanila Kattida Thozilalar Sangham (TMKTS)
1, Cross ST (F.F.) Kilpauk Garden,
Chennai-600010
Ph: 044-26478386
Email: msubbu_cwbc@vsnl.net

T. Peter
National Fishworkers Forum
Velankanny Junction, Valiathura
Vallakadavu P.O.
Trivandrum - 695008
Ph: 0471-2501376/2505216
Email: nff@vsnl.com

Jesurathinam, SNEHA, Nagapattinam
Tel: 04365-222907, 240622
These organisations are credible and are using local volunteer base



Indian Express Citizen's Relief Fund
If you are from Mumbai you can send Cheques.
If you are outside mumbai you can send demand drafts in favour of "Indian Express Citizen's
Relief Fund" to following address,
The Indian Express,
3/50, Lalbag Industrial Estate,
Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Road,
Lalbag, Mumbai - 400 012



The Hindu Relief Fund" from Hindu group of publications
A relief fund has specially been set up to receive contributions, which may be sent as cheques or

drafts payable to "The Hindu Relief Fund."
Send to:
Kasturi Buildings
859 Anna Salai
Chennai 600 002
INDIA
Make the contribution online at http://pay.hindu.com/thrfpay/thrfpay.jsp



T.N. Chief Minister's Public Relief Fund.

The Contribution may be sent either by cash or cheque or Demand Draft drawn in favour of 'CHIEF
MINISTER'S PUBLIC RELIEF FUND' addressed to :
The Joint Secretary to Government and Treasurer,
Chief Minister's Public Relief Fund,
Finance Department,
Secretariat,
Chennai-600 009.


HOPE - the NDTV Tsunami Relief Fund
Send donations to help those affected by yesterday's disaster through NDTV's trust fund, The Hope
Trust.
Donations can be made to: "HOPE - Tsunami Relief Fund" and sent to:
The Company Secretary
W17, Greater Kailash - 1
New Delhi
INDIA

AIDINDIA
Address:
Old no. 132, New 242, Avvai Shanmugam Salai, Gopalapuram, Chennai - 600 086
Contacts:

T.Ramakrishnan, Chapter co-ordinator (A)
E-mail: ramkey_t@yahoo.com
Telephone: +91-44-2483 2256

Vibha Ravindran, Projects Co-ordinator (B)
E-mail: vibha_ravindran@rediffmail.com
Telephone: +91-98402 63275



Medical Aid on behalf of Ranbaxy. Whoever is willing to be a part of this effort,
Apurva can be contacted at:
Apurva Chamari
Manager- Marketing,
Ranbaxy Australasia Pty. Ltd,
13th Floor, Devika Towers , Nehru Place , New Delhi-19.
Tel:+ 91 11 26286624 (D) ,9811332259 (M) Fax: 26222780
apurva.chamaria@ranbaxy.com


PM's Relief Fund
The Prime Minister's Office,
South block,
New Delhi,
India - 110001"



List of aid agencies that you can contribute , Here are the URLs for those for easy reference:

American Red Cross
http://www.redcross.org

Care USA
http://www.careusa.org

Direct Relief International
http://www.directrelief.org

International Medical Corps
http://www.imcworldwide.org

International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
http://www.ifrc.org/

American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Raising Funds
http://www.jdc.org

Lutheran World Relief
http://www.lwr.org

MAP International
http://www.map.org

Mercy Corps
http://www.mercycorps.org

Operation USA
http://www.opusa.org

Oxfam America Asia Earthquake Fund
http://www.oxfamamerica.org

Save the Children
http://www.savethechildren.org

US Fund for UNICEF
http://www.unicefusa.org

World Concern
http://www.worldconcern.org

World Vision
http://www.worldvision.org



Control Room Helpline Numbers

India's External Affairs Ministry has set up control rooms in Delhi besides Thailand, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Maldives, Singapore and Malaysia to provide assistance to Indians in the tidal wave-hit areas.

The Delhi control room will be headed by Additional Secretary Talmiz Ahmed.
The telephone numbers are:
00-91-23011849/23382248. E-mail: asad@mea.gov.in & psasad@mea.gov.in

For Maldives, you can bank in money to two special bank accounts created for the tsunami relief efforts.

Name of the Accounts:
Ministry of Finance and Treasury – Disaster Relief Fund

Bank:
Bank of Maldives PLC,
Male’, Republic of Maldives

Bank SWIFT Code:
MALBMVMV

Account numbers:
7701 – 147 900 – 002 (Foreign Currency)
7701 – 147 900 – 001 (Local Currency)

Find out more on the President's website:
http://www.presidencymaldives.gov.mv/v3/pages/News.php3?NewsID=2713

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RELIEF FOR INDIA
The Times Group (publisher of Indian newspapers such as The Times of India www.timesofindia.com) has a relief fund.

Foreign donors can donate directly as Times
Foundation is registered (Registration No. 231660504) with the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India, under the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA - 1976). Payments can be made online via Mas-ter/Visa/Diners by logging on to http://timesfoundation.indiatimes.com

Just shouting out again.

For all and any authentic info on the tsunami, (incl alerts, list of people dead by nationality, Aid and volunteer orgs, the works) pls pls go to

http://tsunamihelp.blogspot.com

This is the real thing.

Anyone in the UK (esp London):

Safeways have buckets out for procedes to Tsumami Relief funds.

Your High Street Oxfam store is taking donations as well.

Hey and dont forget 'Asha for Education'!!

www.ashanet.org

Does anyone know of any agencies or organizations that are accepting volunteers? I have been looking and everything I have seen is seeking specific skills, like teachers, engineers and medical staff, which I am not.

I do a lot of home and furniture restoration, and I am currently building a boat. I keep thinking that I could be very helpful over there, but have no idea how. Is it best to just leave this to the locals?

I'm sure your help would be needed! Ask the big dawgs like Mercy Corp, UN and Red Cross for some advice...

fyi.. yesterday on mtv diary, one of the hosts on mtv went over to thailand and india. apparently the city in thailand that they covered, had almost all the people working with the aftermath of the tsunami as volunteers. they also talked a lot about how many people are helping in india, just playing with the kids and trying to cheer them up.

Can I just toss in something??

As of yesterday, not even half of the money pledged to the UN by the nations of the world to help with the Tsunami relief has shown up.

The UN is pleading with the nations that announced contributions to please honour their pledge because they are now moving into the longterm phase of the reconstruction in some areas.

Call your local politicans and ask them if your country has contributed their full amount!

A U.S.-based organization that is placing volunteers through a local organization in Thailand is Volunteers For Peace. I am going there, well, tomorrow actually and plan on spending a week or more in South Thailand. You can commit for as many weeks as you like, with a week minimum. There is a flat $200 fee, with most of it going straight to relief effort, and I believe you pay $70 US per week to pay for your costs and homestay, if I remember correctly. Anyways you can read more about it at their website: www.vfp.org.
jason

My friend and I raised close to US $5,000 by throwing a neighborhood party. We sent flyers out asking our neighbores to help our world neighbors. we asked everybody to bring either an appetizer or a beveraaaage and a donation for Save The Children. The response was overwhelming. Everybody felt like they had contributed and had a good time.

I just thought I would share in case anybody was looking for easy ways to raise money.

Sory about typo. The neighbors were really delightful, they were not neighbores. Also, we did have many beverages, not beveraaages. Although,some may have felt they were the latter.

Hello!
if anyone is interested in volunteer work in india you can contact amritapuri.org in kerala. this is the home of ammachi, the hugging saint. she is doing wonders for tsunami relief and volunteers are definatly needed. she will be rebuilding homes and villages until all that were damaged by the tsunami are replaced, so if youre into building its a good place to look. you dont have to pay to volunteer with amma and you get darshan (hugs&blessings) whenever you want! the website also has tons of photos and video footage if you havent seen enough. anyway, some of it is simply and beautifully amma being compassionate with the villagers...a different perspective than your average media coverage. also needed are people to serve food and work in the hospital. there are plenty of other opportunities too.
peace and blessings-
s