NGOs respond to Asia tsunamis
The following is a list of NGOs responding to the devastation caused by tsunamis unleashed by an underwater earthquake on December 26.
Action Against Hunger (ACH) – Spain (Acción contra el Hambre)
Has teams in Sri Lanka, building latrines and analysing drinking water supplies. Recovering bodies and distributing mosquito nets, blankets, towels and mattresses to survivors. Click here to donate to this organisation
Action Against Hunger (AAH) – UK
Providing immediate relief to survivors in Batticaloa, Trincomalee and Jaffna in Sri Lanka, constructing latrines, trucking in water and ferrying bodies to hospital for identification. Supplies, including water and sanitation equipment, have been sent to Sri Lanka. Conducting further needs assessments in Indonesia. Click here to donate to this organisation
ActionAid - USA
Distributing medical supplies, food items and shelter material, as well as providing psychosocial support and helping restore livelihoods in India. In Thailand, the organisation is working to provide fishing boats and rebuild homes for 2,000 families. Some of the main activities in Sri Lanka include help with restoring livelihoods, providing shelter, psychosocial rehabilitation and re-establishing schools. Click here to donate to this organisation
ActionAid - Spain (Ayuda en Acción)
Providing medical and pyschosocial assistance in Tamil Nadu, India. Click here to donate to ActionAid International
Action by Churches Together (ACT) International
The ACT International alliance has launched a $8.2 million appeal to assist its members' relief operations in India, Indonesia, Myanmar and Sri Lanka, as well as other countries that may require assistance. Click here to donate to this organisation
Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) International - USA Coordinating provision of medical services in coastal areas of Banda Aceh and distributing emergency relief to displaced people. Operating a water purification unit and distributing medical aid in Sri Lanka. Aid in Thailand includes the provision of protective wear for workers retrieving bodies and assistance with water-system repairs. In India, the organisation is helping fishing families restore their livelihoods and planning to provide a water purification system. Click here to donate to this organisation
American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) - USA Supporting the work of local and international organisations in Indonesia with money from its Crisis Fund. The funds will help send 40 doctors to Aceh.
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American Jewish World Service (AJWS) - USA Working with 22 local NGOs to assess needs in the region and provide food, water, shelter and medicine as well as long-term support. Click here to donate to this organisation
American Red Cross - USA Deploying staff to work with IFRC partners in reuniting relatives, assessing needs and providing relief. Planning to send plastic sheeting, family tents, and hygiene kits. Click here to donate to this organisation
American Refugee Committee - USA Distributing medical supplies, trauma counselling, clean water and planning to provide fishing boats for families in southern Thailand. Click here to donate to this organisation
Americares - USA Mobilising an airlift of medical supplies, personal hygiene items and enough water purification treatments for four million litres of drinking water to Sri Lanka. Planning relief shipments to India, Indonesia and Thailand. Click here to donate to this organisation
AUSTCARE - Australia Working with partners in the hardest-hit areas of Sri Lanka and Indonesia's Aceh to provide emergency relief, including water, sanitation, food, shelter, fuel and medical supplies. Click here to donate to this organisation
Baptist World Aid (BWA) - USA A medical and relief team has flown to Sri Lanka. Click here to donate to this organisation
British Red Cross - UK The organisation has chartered seven cargo flights with relief items and sent its delegates to the affected region to help aid programmes. Click here to donate to this organisation
Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFOD) - UK Working with Caritas International, a global alliance of Catholic aid agencies, through local partners to provide relief and rehabilitation in Sri Lanka, India and Indonesia. Click here to donate to this organisation
CARE International Delivering and distributing 200,000 water purification kits in Indonesia and basic relief supplies in six areas of Sri Lanka. Providing emergency relief supplies in hard-hit coastal areas in India, with the aim of reaching a minimum of 20,000 families. In Thailand, CARE is distributing first aid kits and other essential items and supplying medicines. Click here to donate to this organisation
Caritas – Germany Caritas Germany has made 300,000 euros ($395,000) available to support relief efforts in southern India and Sri Lanka and is also coordinating with Diakonie Emergency Aid - Germany Click here to donate to Caritas - Germany Click here to donate to Diakonie Emergency Aid - Germany
Caritas Internationalis Caritas member organisations are working to provide immediate relief and long-term recovery assistance in India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia and Thailand, providing water purification and sanitation, school supplies, shelter, medical care and trauma counselling. Caritas is also distributing food, clothing and other essential non-food items. More than $42.5 million is available within the Caritas network to respond to immense needs. Click here to donate to this organisation
Catholic Medical mission Board (CMMB) - USA Assessing immediate needs of partners in Indonesia and Malaysia for medical volunteers, medical supplies and small programme grants. Collaborating with partners in Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka and Thailand to set up healthcare progranmmes for orphans, young people and women. Click here to donate to this organisation
Catholic Relief Services (CRS) - USA CRS has committed al least $25 million to provide shelter and immediate healthcare needs. CRS and local partners immediately mobilised to hardest-hit areas of India, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Indonesia. Click here to donate to this organisation
Christian Aid - UK Has an ongoing relationship with Indian partner Christian Auxiliary for Social Action (CASA) and is working through them in Tamil Nadu, to provide blankets, medicine, clothing and plastic sheeting. An assessment team is working in Sri Lanka, where local partners are the National Christian Council of Sri Lanka and the Holistic Health Centre, based in Jaffna. Click here to donate to this organisation
Christian Children's Fund (CCF) - USA Has emergency teams on the ground in Sri Lanka, India and Indonesia. Distributing blankets, utensils and food, while assessing the special needs of children. May also set up child centres to provide children with a safe place to play. Click here to donate to this organisation
Church’s Auxiliary for Social Action (CASA) - India Has mobilised 12 relief teams in India, setting up five operational units in Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Kerala to help 50,000 families. Emergency aid includes food, drinking water, plastic sheeting and household items. Also aims to build 40 multi-purpose disaster shelters in coastal villages and provide building materials to 10,000 families. Click here to donate to this organisation
Church World Service (CWS) - USA Sending over $900,000 in initial relief supplies to Sri Lanka and India and deployed rapid response teams across the region. In India, supporting efforts by CWS partner Church’s Auxiliary for Social Action. Click here to donate to this organisation
Concern Worldwide - USA Concern has increased its emergency programme to $1.5 million and is sending an additional team to Sri Lanka. Emergency relief kits have been supplied to 10,000 Indian families in Tamil Nadu. Click here to donate to this organisation
Direct Relief International (DRI) - USA Sending specialists in emergency health, water sanitation and reconstruction to the affected region. The organisation’s mobile field emergency clinic has reached the isolated Panama isthmus in the Ampar district of Sri Lanka. Click here to donate to this organisation
Disaster Mitigation Institute (DMI) – India A team is assessing needs for food, water, shelter and work in Chennai and Cuddalore districts of Tamil Nadu and Union Terrory in Pondicherry. Click here to donate to this organisation
Doctors of the World (MdM) – Spain (Médicos del Mundo) Has sent an emergency team of four doctors and a logistician to northeastern Sri Lanka. Click here to donate to this organisation
Doctors of the World (MdM) – UK If any British medics or logisticians are interested in volunteering to help with the crisis for a minimum of one month, call +44 207 516 9103 Click here to donate to this organisation
Doctors of the World (DOW) - USA Collecting funds to support relief efforts of its sister organisations in Sri Lanka and Indonesia. Click here to donate to this organisation
Evangelical Fellowship of India Commission on Relief (EFICOR) - India An assessment team of this Indian organisation – a member of Sphere India -- has been working in the Indian states of Andra Pradesh, Tamily Nadu and Kerala. Conducting relief operations in Nagapatinam, Cuddalore, Kanyakumari, Chennai (Tamil Nadu), Port Blair (Andaman and Nicobar Island) and Azhikal, Kurunagapally and Kovalam (Kerala). Click here to donate to this organisation
GOAL - Ireland GOAL has begun a feeding operation for more than 65,000 people in Tamil Nadu, India, and is working in Nagabattinum and assessing needs in the Andaman and Nicobar islands. Has a team in Sri Lanka. Click here to donate to this organisation
Handicap International (HI) - UK Was already working in the Batticaloa and Ampara districts of Sri Lanka, and after initial involvement in transporting victims and providing first aid equipment, HI is now concentrating on post-trauma treatment. Click here to donate to this organisation
Health Partners International of Canada (HPIC) – Canada Helping to deliver donated medical aid from Canada's healthcare industry. Click here to donate to this organisation
HELP (Hilfe zur Selbsthilfe e.V.) - Germany Sending emergency specialists to Sri Lanka. Supporting a local organisation of volunteers in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, to bury the dead and distribute food and shelter to 20,000 homeless people. Click here to donate to this organisation
HelpAge International (HAI) - UK Setting up and supporting camps for displaced people in Sri Lanka and distributing emergency relief items in five districts. In Indonesia, the organisation is working with local partners to include vulnerable older people in rehabilitation programmes. In India, HAI is distributing food, cooking oil, blankets, lanterns, stoves, clothing, bedding and other provisions to elderly people and their families. HelpAge India aims to reach 6,000 families with immediate relief by mid-January. They are also assessing the rehabilitation needs vulnerable elderly people. Click here to donate to this organisation
humedica e.V. - Germany Has sent a medical team to Sri Lanka with supplies for 3,000 people. Distributing food and blankets and setting up several mobile clinics operated by local doctors. Click here to donate to this organisation
International Aid Services (IAS) - Sweden Helping local partners and NGOs provide clean water to 30,000 people on Sri Lanka’s eastern coast. Click here to donate to this organisation
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) - Switzerland Working with the Sri Lankan Red Cross Society (SLRCS), the ICRC has provided essential household items to more than 12,000 families in the north and east of Sri Lanka, and plans to help 8,000 more. Five joint ICRC/SLRCS teams are helping to trace lost relatives through its website www.familylinks.icrc.org. Click here to donate to the ICRC
International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent (IFRC) – Switzerland The IFRC has launched its largest-ever relief operation to assist over two million people in the most vulnerable communities over the next six months. The IFRC has dispensed an initial one million Swiss franc ($850,000) grant for relief efforts and has launched an appeal for 7.5 million francs ($640,000). Receiving assistance in Aceh from staff of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) – Switzerland Click here to donate to the IFRC
International Medical Corps (IMC) - USA Responding to health needs in Aceh, Indonesia, IMC is conducting an emergency assessment and preparing a possible airlift of supplies. Click here to donate to this organisation
International Rescue Corps - UK Helping coordinate relief supplies donated in Britain in conjunction with the Disasters Emergency Committee.
International Rescue Committee (IRC) - USA Sending more than 40 tonnes of emergency medical supplies, shelter material and water storage tanks to the Indonesian province of Aceh, where the organisation had a presence prior to the disaster. Deploying mobile emergency response teams in the region. Click here to donate to this organisation
INTERSOS - Italy Providing water purification chemicals, water tanks, health kits, tents, blankets, tools and generators to 20,000 internally displaced people on Sri Lanka's Kinniyai island. Click here to donate to this organisation
Islamic Relief - UK Islamic Relief has launched an appeal for two million pounds sterling ($3,750,000). The British-based organisation is undertaking field assessments in Sri Lanka, India and Indonesia. Spending an initial 1.4 million euros from its emergency funds to bring aid to survivors. Distributing hygiene kits in Sri Lanka and food, water, medicine and disinfectants in Indonesia. Click here to donate to this organisation
Lutheran World Relief (LRW) - USA LWR has released $20,000 to local partners for immediate relief operations. Funds will be used to provide up to 50,000 people with clean water and food in southern India. Click here to donate to this organisation
Malteser Germany (Foreign Aid Department) - Germany Working with Indian partner organisation, Unnati, in south India, to distribute food, medicine, clothing and cooking utensils to more than 40,000 people. Distributing food, blankets, pots and medicines in Thailand. Also providing psychosocial support to German tourists there. In Sri Lanka, focusing on providing clean drinking water. Click here to donate to this organisation
Medair - Switzerland This Christian organisation is repairing contaminated wells, digging emergency latrines and purifying water supplies in eastern Sri Lanka. Click here to donate to this organisation
Medical Assistance Programs (MAP) International - USA Shipping medical supplies and other relief items in coordination with its partners for distribution in southern India, Banda Aceh and Sri Lanka. Helping vaccinate 10,000 children in southern India against measles. Click here to donate to this organisation
Mercy Corps – USA Mercy Corps is distributing water purification tablets, plastic sheeting for temporary shelter, cooking supplies, hygiene and sanitation supplies, blankets and clothing on Sumatra island. Sending a boat with supplies to Meulaboh and to remote islands that have not yet received external aid. Click here to donate to this organisation
Merlin - UK Medical teams are active in Indonesia and Sri Lanka and continuing to assess needs in Aceh. Planning to provide water purification tablets, health and hygiene information in Sri Lanka. Click here to donate to this organisation
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) - International An MSF team of eight, including three nurses and two doctors, has arrived in Banda Aceh in northern Sumatra and set up a clinic in a camp for displaced people. MSF is also sending a team to Sri Lanka, where it is focusing on medical care for survivors and displaced people, and is conducting an exploratory mission in southern Myanmar (Burma). Click here to donate to this organisation
Muslim Aid - UK Has set up a field hospital in Aceh in Indonesia, and is working with partner NGOs in Thailand's Phuket, Phi Phi and Ranoog near the Burmese border. Muslim Aid is also providing emergency relief to survivors in Somalia. Click here to donate to this organisation
Muslim Hands - UK Planning the rehabilitation of schools in Kinniya, on the east coast of Sri Lanka, by providing school furniture, uniforms and school kits to over 2,000 children. Click here to donate to this organisation
Norwegian Church Aid - Norway Mapping out disaster-struck areas of Sri Lanka before starting emergency relief work. The initial focus is on providing dried food and medicines. The Norwegian government has pledged $490,000 to Norwegian Church Aid for its relief efforts in southern India and Sri Lanka. Click here to donate to this organisation
Operation USA Providing funds and emergency supplies such as food hygiene kits and water purification equipment to partners in Sri Lanka, India and Thailand. Click here to donate to this organisation
Oxfam GB - UK Oxfam staff have been ferrying the injured to hospital in the worst-hit areas of Sri Lanka, while conducting urgent needs assessments. Click here to donate to this organisation
Peace Winds Japan (PWJ) - Japan PWJ's emergency relief team in Medan, the capital of North Sumatra Province, has begun delivering critical provisions to survivors in Meulaboh on the western coast of Aceh. Click here to donate to this organisation
Plan UK Plan UK has launched an international appeal and has received pledges of more than $975,000. Plan Sri Lanka has contributed $200,000 to the National Disaster Coordinating Committee. Click here to donate to this organisation
Project HOPE - USA Initially responding with medical aid in Thailand. Accepting medical products from manufacturers as gifts-in-kind. Click here to donate to this organisation
Save the Children UK Distributing food, shelter, household items and water purification materials to 100,000 families in Sri Lanka, India and Indonesia. Working to reunify lost children with their families and setting up child-friendly spaces in shelters. Click here to donate to this organisation
Save the Children - USA Mobilising response teams from within South Asia and the rest of the world to help children and families affected by the disaster. Click here to donate to this organisation
Sustainable Environment and Ecological Development Society (SEEDS) - India SEEDS has established three relief camps in Port Blair, in Andaman and Nicobar islands. The organisation is now planning to move to the rehabilitation and reconstruction phase of the response. Click here to donate to this organisation
Swiss Foundation for Mine Action (FSD) Helping the World Food Programme set up an urgent operation centre in Jakarta to specialise in security and risk assessments for relief operations. FSD will work to reduce the risk to relief workers and tsunami survivors of unexploded ordnance in conflict areas such as Aceh in Indonesia. In Sri Lanka, FSD has moved all existing resources to the Ampara district, a coastal zone south of Batticaloa partly controlled by Tamil Tigers, at the request of the Tigers’ humanitarian wing. FSD has been giving first aid to the victims, removing and transporting the wounded, co-ordinating and distributing aid, clearing debris, removing bodies and assessing needs. Click here to donate to this organisation
Terre des hommes (Tdh) - Swizerland Terre des Hommes was already present in eastern Sri Lanka, and is providing food and psychosocial support and operating eight clinics. The organisation is coordinating aid to Batticaloa. Click here to donate to this organisation
United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) - USA Working with partner church-related and humanitarian agencies to provide food, clean water, shelter and sanitary services in Asia and eastern Africa. Click here to donate to this organisation
War Child - Canada In Sri Lanka, providing food, water, shelter, sanitation and health care; psychosocial support to help children cope with the effects and aftermath of the tsunami; and financial support for rehabilitation and reconstruction through its local partner Butterfly Peace Garden in the eastern coastal city of Batticaloa. Click here to donate to this organisation
World Emergency Relief - UK Delivering blankets, sheets, water purification system, food to survivors in Phuket, Thailand, and shelter and medical supplies in Sri Lanka. The organisation is also partnering with other British Christian charities that were not part of an appeal by British umbrella group the Disasters Emergency Committee to raise funds for the tsunami disaster. Click here to donate to this organisation
World Relief - USA Preparing a long-term plan for rehabilitation and reconstruction work, focusing on shelter and restoring livelihoods. Click here to donate to this organisation
World Vision International World Vision Indonesia is distributing rice and fortified biscuits to 4,000 displaced people in Indrapuri, Banda Aceh. World Vision Sri Lanka has distributed $1.2 million of locally purchased aid to 200,000 people in 15 districts across 12 counties. World Vision Foundation of Thailand has hired tents for 220 families and paid for the construction of semi-permanent and wood homes. After distributing emergency relief items in Tamil Nadu and Andra Pradesh, World Vision India is looking at long-term rehabilitation needs. Click here to donate to this organisation
06 Jan 2005 / Source: AlertNet
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