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Help Survivors of the
Southeast Asian Tsunami Disaster!
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grief-stricken Indian father clutches the lifeless hand of his
dead son.
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| Long-awaited relief : Indian tsunami victims reach out for relief rice packets from a relief van in a fishermen village near in Cuddalore. (AFP/Dibyandshu Sarkar) |
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boy looks out from the window of an Indian Air Force AN32 plane
as he is evacuated from Nicobar, in India's southeastern Andaman
and Nicobar Islands, Wednesday, Dec. 29, 2004. More than 76,887 people have been killed across south and southeast Asia, and as far as Somalia on Africa's east coast following a massive earthquake which triggered devastating tsunamis on Sunday. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup) |
Karl Nilsson of Sweden displays a hand written sign asking for help in finding his family Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2004, in Phuket, Thailand. While thousand of Swedish tourist are missing following a massive tsunami Karl Nilsson was amoung those found by Dr. Marie Guldstrand of Stockholm. (AP Photo/David Longstreath) |
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A young Indian girl smiles as she eats a biscuit received as relief
food rations at a relief camp in the tsunami hit Akkrapattai fishing
colony in Nagapattinam some 350 kms south of Madras. A mass inoculation
drive and adequate clean drinking water has so far prevented the
outbreak of an epidemic in the district of India worst-hit by
killer tsunamis, doctors said(AFP/Prakash Singh)
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Rizal
Sapura, 23, a tsunami survivor, talks to reporters after arriving
in Klang, Malaysia, after he was found at sea about 100 nautical
miles (160 kilometers) from the shores of Aceh province.The
young Indonesian man, found afloat on tree branches and debris,
was rescued by a Malaysian cargo ship from the Indian Ocean
on Monday evening. He was the second person to be found alive
at sea by Malaysian ships days after the disaster, officials
said Tuesday. The crew of a container vessel that was returning
to Malaysia from South Africa had spotted him clinging to the
branches of an uprooted tree. Rizal, who subsisted mainly on
rainwater, was weak and in shock and was to be rushed for medical
treatment when the ship arrived in Malaysia's western harbor
early today (1/5/2005).
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As we all know, large areas of Southeast Asia and East Africa, comprising
11 countries, have been devastated by a catastrophic series of tsunamis
triggered by a sub-sea earthquake. The estimated death toll from this
unprecedented natural disaster is rapidly climbing toward 175,000 --
expected to continue to increase over the next days and weeks as more
bodies are found and water-borne diseases spread among the survivors.
In addition, millions have lost their homes and livelihoods and have
been displaced.
Please do whatever you can to help! A few days ago CPCSM made an organizational donation to Catholic Relief Services (CRS), and some of our Board members have also made personal contributions to CRS. We encourage you to join us in reaching out to provide disaster relief to our Asian and African brothers and sisters: please give whatever you can afford to help ease the suffering of these millions of people devastated by this cataclysmic disaster.
Catholic Relief Services has set up a special appeal for the survivors of this disaster. The following link will take you to CRS’s special appeal website where secure online donations can be made.
If you would prefer not to donate to Catholic Relief Services, please click on the link to the Network For Good to learn about many other relief organizations and how to make donations to them.
The CPCSM Board of Directors
December 31, 2004