Indonesia - Samoa.
Sep. 30th, 2009 09:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sepdetI donated to Oxfam after the Boxing Day tsunami, because they already had people/supplies on the ground -- in some of the news coverage I saw that they were already there, and they had a very organized operation going distributing tarps, clothes, medical supplies, water tablets, etc.
I'm not being as thorough this time, but a quick check suggests they're already working in Samoa and Sumatra.
Basically, they get the supplies in position before a disaster and count on donors to pay for restocking.
No Paypal, but they take secure online credit card donations. I'm gonna drop another hundred on 'em.
There's so many different things around the world that need to be dealt with -- I should probably be looking for and donating to something obscure instead. (On the other hand that's what my Kiva and Heifer.org donations are for.)
So, anyway, if you feel like chipping in, there's one possibility.
I'm not being as thorough this time, but a quick check suggests they're already working in Samoa and Sumatra.
Basically, they get the supplies in position before a disaster and count on donors to pay for restocking.
No Paypal, but they take secure online credit card donations. I'm gonna drop another hundred on 'em.
There's so many different things around the world that need to be dealt with -- I should probably be looking for and donating to something obscure instead. (On the other hand that's what my Kiva and Heifer.org donations are for.)
So, anyway, if you feel like chipping in, there's one possibility.
