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Help Support Disaster Relief in South Asia
People across South Asia, stricken by the Tsunami Disaster,
need your help to recover and rebuild - many have lost everything.
Please join millions of other generous Americans and support one
or many of the important relief organizations below with a safe and
easy contribution now. Your cash contributions are desperately
needed and will provide assistance to those whose lives have been
devastated by this terrible disaster.
Tax Deadline Extended
Taxpayers can claim charitable donations to Tsunami relief made during January 2005 on their 2004 tax return.
Emergency Response
Helping to provide relief to the most vulnerable people affected by the devastating earthquake in Asia.
Providing emergency food, clothing and temporary shelter as well as psychosocial support services to those most critically impacted.
Sending humanitarian aid to the people affected by the Tsunami.
Providing vital supplies and services to victims still waiting for assistance in the aftermath of this tragedy.
Immediate relief for the emergency in Southeast Asia.
Providing relief to the very remote coastal villages that few have reached.
Provides food kitchens to distribute hot food in affected towns in India.
Distributing food, blankets and water in India and Sri Lanka.
Providing food, clean water, clothing, bedding and medicines to tsunami disaster victims.
Emergency response support.
Providing help to the victims, especially the most vulnerable - people with disabilities and their families.
Providing emergency supplies in affected parts of Sri Lanka and Indonesia.
Distributing emergency survival kits and committed to the long-term recovery.
Working with affected communities long-term to rebuild lives in South Asia.
Distributing medical supplies/medicines, food/water and building supplies.
Working in Indonesia to provide disaster relief services.
Providing eemergency medical services including medicines, food packets, drinking water, and clothes.
Establishing relief camps and sending supplies for orphaned children.
Mobilizing to reach the areas virtually untouched, even by local governments.
Responding to earthquake disaster in South Asia.
Helping people rebuild their livelihoods by equipping them with tools and resources to return to self sufficiency.
Providing medical supplies, shelter material and water storage tanks to Indonesia.
Providing emergency relief to the victims of the earthquake and tsunamis in Southeast Asia, Sri Lanka and India.
Distributing food, blankets and water and working to reconstruct homes in Sri Lanka.
Providing emergency aid to those left homeless.
Distributing Crisis Care Kits to those in need in Sri Lanka.
Meeting the emergency needs of thousands in areas devastated by earthquake and tsunamis.
Providing emergency aid and medical care to tsunami victims in Indonesia, Thailand and India.
Aiding victims and sending additional relief shipments of medicines.
Providing immediate help in the form of water, food, clothing, medical supplies and temporary shelter, and counseling bereaved people.
Providing rescue and relief services to the victims by supplying them with food, temporary shelter, clean water, medication and survival kits.
Mobilizing doctors and medical teams to provide medicines, medical supplies, equipment, and medical survival kits in devastated regions.
Providing food, medical help, transport, temporary shelters to the coastal areas of the northeast of Sri Lanka.
Planning a six-month, multi-million dollar emergency relief operation for tsunami victims in the Indonesian province of Aceh and in Sri Lanka.
Food & Medicine
Providing immediate material needs to displaced families.
Implementing sustainable healthcare programs especially for orphans, adolescents and women in the vulnerable communities.
Providing medical supplies and medicine to victims in need.
Providing water purification tanks as part of immediate relief.
Providing food, fresh Water, medical Supplies as well as long term housing for the displaced.
Sending medical material aid to earthquake victims.
Delivering medical assistance and emergency relief in Sri Lanka and Indonesia.
Distributing food, water and disaster relief supplies to help the children.
Distributing school kits to children who lost everything in Cuddalore and helping the widows and orphans of fishermen families in Kanniyakumari.
Providing freshly cooked meals for the tsunami victims every day.
Coordinating distributions of clean water and critically needed items including food, shelter and clothing.
Distributing water filtration systems, reverse osmosis machines, antibiotics and other critically-needed medicines in Colombo Sri Lanka.
Providing nutritional supplements to children, assessing living conditions and directing clean water, shelter, food, sanitation and medical care to those in need.
Providing medical care and orchestrating village reconstruction in seaside villages in India.
International Medical Corps (IMC) is on the ground in Aceh, Indonesia, providing direct emergency assistance to victims of the South Asia tsunami.
Providing medical care at the ground level for the victims of tsunami.
Deploying nurses and physicians to direct distribution of medicines and set up a field hospital.
Providing food, medicine, clothes, tents & other urgently needed supplies.
Distributing medicine and other urgently needed supplies.
Distributing lifesaving medicines and supplies to victims in India, Sri Lanka and Sumatra.
Preparing shipments of medicines and medical supplies.
Acquiring and transporting emergency relief supplies to the victims of natural or man made disasters.
Providing direct relief to affected areas in the Tsunami impacted regions.
Distributing survival kits and vaccinations.
Treating the sick and wounded in Sri Lanka and Indonesia.
Sending food and water to aid victims.
Working to secure a continuous supply of safe drinking water, provide medical assistance to the injured and sick.
Providing medicine and medical supplies to those most in need.
Providing medical care to victims in Sri Lanka and committed to both short-term and long-term relief.
Funds will be used to purchase urgently needed supplies.
Sending food and medicine to coastal areas of Sri Lanka in a state of devastation.
Shipping tons of food – rice, noodles and biscuits – and liters of water into the remote regions.
Distributing emergency supplies to those most in need in Thailand and Sri Lanka.
Children & Families
Training individuals on how to run foster care systems and to train and ensure the future of the children in Sri Lanka.
Providing therapy to prevent dehydration and death from disease.
Providing emergency relief to children and families.
Working in India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, and Thailand to provide critical assistance to vulnerable children and families.
Providing care to the youngest of victims in southern Thailand.
Providing assistance and counseling to displaced women and families.
Assisting families affected by the earthquake.
Distributing clean water, emergency food, cooking supplies, temporary shelter, and medicine.
Assisting children and families impacted by one of the world's most devastating earthquakes.
Delivering survival supplies to coastal areas.
Food and Family Survival Kits to affected Asians.
Rebuild & Recover
Responding to and assessing the damage in Thailand, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, and India.
Rehabilitating the victims in Pondicherry, Nagapatnam district and other coastal areas of India.
Providing support for earthquake and tsunami survivors in Asia.
Planning reconstruction programs in India and Indoensia.
Helping to rebuild in the earthquake's aftermath.
Assessing the impact of the disaster on projects and helping with relief and rehabilitation efforts.
Rehabilitating the victims of the Tsunami.
Providing shelters for displaced persons.
Helping with clean up, search for survivors, and providing homes for the homeless.
Helping families in need of shelter in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Thailand, Malaysia and Bangladesh.
Providing rehabilitation and orphanage assistance to victims in the Northern and Eastern districts of Sri Lanka.
Evaluating the initial relief effort and coordinating the follow-up programs necessary to sustain the relief effort.
Assessing the legal dimensions of the problems which the victims will be facing in immediate term and in reconstruction.
Providing relief aid with partners in India.
Setting up refugee camps and focusing on construction and counseling in Sri Lanka.
Using self-help technologies, such as solar-powered cooking ovens and solar-powered refrigerators to help victims.
Orchestrating long-term reconstruction programs.
Working in Thailand to help ensure that lives and families are restored.
Working to help re-establish families and to protect those who have lost everything.
Installing solar electric power systems for water pumping and hospitals.
Concentrating on long term relief efforts such as rebuilding houses and schools.
Providing effective and personal relief to tsunami survivors that will allow them to sustain themselves.
Coordinating aid to Tsunami survivors.
Focusing on long-term recovery efforts.
Rebuilding homes, boats and distributing new fishing supplies so that those who lost their means of income can once again begin to provide for their families.
Rebuilding communities in India, Sri Lanka and Indonesia.
Animals
The organizations below are providing relief and helping the animal victims of the Tsunami.
Photos of the earthquake's aftermath.
Tips to help you give with confidence to trustworthy charities helping the victims of this devastating catastrophe.
Response to earthquake.
What Are Tsunamis, and What Causes Them?
Help Tsunami survivors in South India by donating to a general disaster relief fund or one of several projects run by local organizations working in the region.
ICRC is concentrating its relief efforts on Sri Lanka and the Indonesian province of Aceh.
More information on relief response.
