Orcmid's Lair: Tsunami - Earthquake - Supporting International Relief

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Welcome to Orcmid's Lair, the playground for family connections, pastimes, and scholarly vocation -- the collected professional and recreational work of Dennis E. Hamilton Archives Atom Feed Associated Blogs Edge City Numbering Peano Praxis101 Prof. von Clueless in the Blunder Dome Recent Items The Heart of Trust Accountability: Lessons from Engineering and Medicine Sandy's CyberHome Travels Justifying Pre-Emptive War The IT Chaos Tipping Point? Security-Challenged Arphids at a Survey Near You TEST Swept Along: Israel Outed by Scoble Scoble's Red Couch Opens When Possibilities Inspire Their Sources	2004-12-27 Tsunami - Earthquake - Supporting International Relief WorldChanging: Another World Is Here: Tsunamis in Asia - The Morning After. The simplest visual depiction of the earthquake zone and the tsunami-effected region is at this page. It makes the significance of this as an international disaster clear in a very compact way. There is also a link to one page being built on relief efforts and ways to contact them and make donations. I don't know how you can qualify organizations at this point, but you may already have a contact with aid and relief organizations that you respect. For example, I was chatting with my sister this morning and she said that she would get in touch with World Vision, because she has worked through them before and they have a local office in our area. Timing is urgent, because of the risk of disease and other secondary effects of this catastrophic event. Support for organizations that are geered for rapid response seems critical, along with support for relief organizations that will be able to follow on to assist with healthcare and reconstruction. I just made a contribution to the International Response Fund of the American Red Cross. I picked a number, and then I doubled it, thinking of what is needed for relief to Darfur as well. Thinking about it some more, I realize how stingy I am. I donated less than four times what it cost for the DVD set of the Live Aid concerts, something that I requested on my Christmas list and that I received Christmas Eve. And I'm willing to spend double to quadruple the donation I just made to take Vicki out for New Years Eve and our 9th wedding anniversary. I just talked it over with Vicki and we chose staying home for New Years Eve, or doing something simple with friends, donating what we would have spent going out to the disaster relief effort instead. And if anyone puts together a benefit event by New Years Eve, I will consider donating to that also. *Watching:* Live Aid: The Day the Music Changed the World, July 13, 1985, 4 DVD set. I had taped the simulcast FM broadcasts originally, and they were some of the best on-air concert transmissions I had ever captured. I don't have a cassette deck any longer and the DVDs are outstanding. We haven't listened all the way through. Now it is something more to do on New Years Eve. posted by orcmid at 12/27/2004 09:50:12 AM *Comments:* Hi ,I have been researching what I think are suitable containers for water distribution to difficult locations. http://www.bha.com.au/bhamain.swf the click on compisite containers The thing is called nautilas used in the wie /juice industry etc is a palletised flatpack which folds out to an 1100 litre tank with taps and every thing These would be ideal for slinging under helos to deposit water at isolated points. you could load many on an aircraft. There are also US versions available in several sizes Best wishes Terry belinda66@bigpond.com.au # posted by Anonymous: 1/1/2005 01:05:56 AM The link provided in the above comment is to a Shockwave page. I surf with mobile-code disabled and I am unwilling to access a page that requires mobile code for simple viewing. Likewise, the root page, http://www.bha.com.au, although it has title "Bulk Handling Australia - Premium Quality Flexible Intermediate Bulk Containers," also provides nothing but wallpaper unless mobile code is enabled. For business reasons and the protection of my internal SOHO LAN and computers, I will not be enabling mobile code to access these pages. I have no basis for trusting a site that is so intrusive, especially considering the possibility that the site has been hijacked by a hacker exploit. I have no evidence that the site is other than benign; I am unwilling to assume the risk of being mistaken. I will ask whether Terry has found any safer links to material. # posted by orcmid: 1/1/2005 08:59:40 AM I have made a blog myself. It is about finding companies in the UK to donate goods to the tsunami children. If you know of any people here or in the US who will donate toys and teddies that can help to make them smile a little bit they can contact me or my mum please. Please have a look at my blog and leave a link to yours too. My blog address is www.donatetotsunami.blogspot.com Thankyou very much! # posted by Emile1993: 1/9/2005 05:32:32 AM I'm going to leave Emile's post here, but I won't be cross-linking our blogs. It breaks my heart to see this kind of activity and I will cover that better in an update to my blog on this topic. My concern is that it involves great, good-hearted energy devoted to an ineffective or inappropriate response. I don't encourage people to engage in private efforts involving the collection and shipping of goods. I do recommend that people use existing, organized relief efforts and providing the funds needed for urgent relief in the effected areas. For donations of goods and other articles, I recommend working with local charities. This may allow them to prioritize efforts they already have in place to support international relief efforts, and they understand the difficulties of appropriate delivery in distant lands. International disaster relief organizations ask us to refrain from showing up in person or shipping goods independently and creating handling problems at the delivery end. I propose to take their advice. # posted by orcmid: 1/9/2005 09:31:32 AM Post a Comment

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