Help For Tsunami Victims

Hi all,

Here are the various pleas & efforts various people had forwarded to me the last hour. If you wish to help in collection or need us to collect from your place kindly include your contact details as comments to this blog, or contact me at 65-9731-6795.

1. Morgan FC member Stanley said:
Kavin & I will provide logistics to pick up as much as we can in our cars, you're invited to join us and help collect from those near your location, if you're free tonight.

2. E-mail from my ex-NUS mate Chi Keung:
Hi,
If you feel that you can do something to help the Tsunami victims, read on. If you are donating items required, I can help to transport the items to the collection point. I heard that Ananda Travel is one of the collection point, but I can't find any info on that.

Donations in Kind
They need:
1. Tents
2. Food (Pre-cooked or ready-to-eat meal packs)
3. Water Purification Tablets
4. Wheat Flour, rice, other staples
5. Drugs: Paracetamol, anti-biotics, wound dressing, suture material,disposable syringes, vitamins, and vaccinations for diarrhea, cholera andmalaria.
6. Intravenous infusions (saline and dextrose)
7. Portable generators
8. Clothes and blankets (sort into boxes or piles within box according toadult male, female, and children, infant). Please only include appropriateclothing. Nothing sleeveless, no impractical cast-offs as well (e.g.evening gowns, fur-lined jackets are not appropriate!)

What to do:
1. Pack the items into boxes clearly labeled FOOD, CLOTHES, BLANKETS,MEDICAL supplies etc.
2. Tell your friends to send items to COLLECTION POINTS (CP) listed below.

Sri Lanka High Commission
13th Floor Goldhill Plaza
Phone: 62544595 (Mr Ranjit)
***The items to be sent during 8.30am-7pm. They will open for at least ONEMONTH.

Sri Lanka Air
133 Cecil Street #13-02
Phone: 62236026 (Shyla from Sales Dept)
*** They are stopping collection by Thursday, and now only want FOOD &Medicine now.

Tisarana Buddhist Association
(has Welfare Service in Sri Lanka providingfree ambulance among other things, and a vocational center)
[Prefer clothes,blankets, tent, medicinal supplies].
90 Duku Road
Phone: 63456741 (Temple), 97884486 (Christopher Lim)
*** The items to be sent during 9.30am-6pm. Please send down within ONEWEEK, for they are sending out a container as soon as it fills.

Ananda Travel Agencies
Many locations, so more convenient. Also, since this is going to more than one country, may be better.
***Please do so by THIS SUNDAY.
Important! Pls CALL before going down to make sure they are open.

NTUC Fairprice
Supermarket retailer NTUC FairPrice invites all shoppers to chip in by buying S$10 food relief packagesto help tsunami victims in the region. These packages will be air flown by partner airline Cathay Pacific to Colombo later in the week. As of January 1, shoppers can also purchase food relief packages that will be sent to Aceh. Shoppers can also donate cash in donation tins placed at all NTUC outlets .

Donations in Cash
1. Customers of DBS Singapore can make their contribution via Internet Banking or DBS/POSB ATM
2. You can also write a cheque to Singapore Red Cross Society, 15 PenangLane, Singapore 2384863.
Please indicate 'Tidal Waves Asia' behind the cheque and include yourname, address and telephone number. The Singapore Red Cross Society will send you a receipt.
4. Donors can also go to the Singapore Red Cross Society to make adonation personally at the above address (from 9.30am to 5.45 pm onweekdays and 9.30 am to noon on Saturday)

More on http://www.channelnewsasia.com/killerwaves/donations.htm#sg

Pass the Message The POINT is to do something. Every little effort counts towards something. Start a positive chain of events, in addition to what the big govt organizations & NGOs are doing. The world is weeping, and we have the responsibility to lessen that suffering.