West Indian Girl

Hey, I just thought i would share this email with everyone. My friend Renu sent it to me. I think it’s great and she rocks.

“Dear friends and family,
The tsunami in southern Asia and Africa may be the
worst natural disaster of our time. More than 116,000
lives were wiped out within hours.
Rising to this challenge is at the heart of global
leadership, and the world is depending on us. The
U.S. government can lead billions of dollars of aid
into this relief effort, if it chooses. Americans are
generous and ready to step forward, but the U.S.
Congress and the Bush administration have made a weak
initial contribution to the effort — first offering
$15 million and then $35 million when they came under
pressure. Clearly, we can do more. (To put it in
perspective, we’re spending $35 million in Iraq every
7 hours, and the Bush administration is about to ask
for another $80 billion to cover the next installment
of this occupation.)
Let Congress and the President know that Americans are
supporting strong leadership on this relief effort,
at: http://www.moveon.org/tsunamirelief/
You can also make donations to many reputable and
effective organizations:
Red Cross:
https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation-form.asp
Oxfam:
https://secure.ga3.org/02/asia_earthquake04?source=aqt04_mo
UNICEF:
https://www.unicefusa.org/site/apps/ka/sd/donor.asp?c=duLRI8O0H&b=277271
CARE:
https://donate.care.org/05/20180000/?source=170570020000
Thanks for your concern,
Renu”

Here’s another link i found with a bunch more ways to help. http://tsunami.com/ Funny/sad thing about this is that this site is normally for a computer company called Tsunami Computing. Since they have had so much traffic they have put this page up which is really cool of them – basically every way you could help out. —F.Ten

here is part of a follow up email i just got from renu:

“You should post the links to the sites where people
can donate. Death toll keeps changing and US just increased their
pledge to $350MM so some of the facts are already
dated. Also let people know they should check if their
company matches their donations. I was able to double
my donation to Red Cross (because my employer
matches).”