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my classmate set this up. all donations are wired directly to Chennai in the state of Tamil Nadu, India.
his words:
Hello All,
Thanks for all your support.
This has definitely been a terrible happening no doubt, at the same time let’s remember that we are not a permanent fixture and we are bound to die one day, any day. So live this very moment you have the way you want it. None of the 20,000+ people realized that they are going to die. Let’s pray they rest in peace and their family members have courage and help to move forward after this. When nature does something we are all angry but we don’t think what we are doing to the nature. Think for a minute and observe silence for a minute.
The recent tolls and other information can be accessed from here www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/000200412272101.htm / www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/001hdline.htm / www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6754820/
I just spoke to my father and mother. My father is running around and helping people (Background: MJF Lion Dr. S. Natarajan. He got elected has the Lions Clubs District Governor 2005-06 last April and he does lot of community service in my city. Right now he is second in command in lions clubs for my city and is overseeing their side of relief work). The earthquake hit around 6:30 am and many didn’t even realize the earthquake. Then from 7:30 am to 11:30 am big waves started coming in from the sea. All waves were minimum 5-6 feet high with tremendous speed and force. The main beach in the city is the world’s second largest beach next to Miami. It will take you minimum 5-10 mins to walk from the road to the sea and in morning it will be bustling with people. Normally my estimate would be at least 50-60 thousand people will be there during morning, there are fisherman hamlets at many places and during rush hour traffic in morning the beach road will be jam packed. Luckily since the waves came progressive many were lucky enough to run for cover. The waves traveled more than 1 km into the city. My father had to witness bodies everywhere, cars overturned and fisherman huts swept away all through out the coastline. Many places don’t have so much of a beach area and there people were sucked inside sea instantly. In my state which is the maximum hit by the waves in the main land India there are lot of casualties. The exact toll is not known since the bodies are all over the coastline and many still considered missing. People are washed away from villages to completely some other places really far away. There are mass graves dug by earthmovers and people are buried in many places. Indian islands Andaman and Nicobar and Sri Lanka are the maximum hit by tsunami.
What is being done / can be done:
My father organized 10,000 food packets and water for people and distributed to the people affected. He is organizing basic grocery, gas stoves, blankets, clothes and basic needs for the fisherman’s and people affected along the coastline. If you can, please make donations through my Paypal which will be forwarded to my father to do more. One dollar can feed a person for a day and there are many thousands of them homeless suddenly. So any donations made by you will go to a right cause. Though I need to figure out exactly how to receive, I think you guys need to send it to osthamba@hotmail.com, I will also try set a page in my website also. Anybody done this please give me more information on how to set it up.
Things like this happen, people die, but more important is how people who are still alive are reacting and helping people in need.
Thanks
Bala
additionally
I kept 00 as goal but I will be glad even if I raise , but please be generous and be assured it will be used appropriately. My father received his doctorate in social science and has been helping people for more the 35 years. He a trustee for lion’s blood bank which is one the biggest blood bank in India, trustee lion’s eye bank and lion’s eye hospital which does free operations and eye care for needy people, he has received "knight of the blind award from Lions International". He spends a significant portion of his earnings on charity and cultural causes. Just be sure your money will go to proper cause and right now my Paypal account is also empty.