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Just the price of a few beers or a packet of fags will go a long way to those who need it the most
Asia earthquake floods
The losses are just inconceivable - we Aussies have about 1200 people unaccounted for, Swedes about the same and many other Northern European countries suffering huge losses. Some of the vision on TV has brought me to tera. There are many many accounts of trgic loss and unfortunately a disproportionate number of miracle survival.
If it's at all possible that anything good could be said to have come of this it's the way the whole world seems to be pulling together. Of course it would be preferable to have not seen it happen in the first place, but it's at least comforting that in times of hardship the politics is put to the side and countries with the means to help those less able come forward and extend the hand of friendship.
To anyone out there who is reading this and has lost a relative or friend, our prayers are with you.
If it's at all possible that anything good could be said to have come of this it's the way the whole world seems to be pulling together. Of course it would be preferable to have not seen it happen in the first place, but it's at least comforting that in times of hardship the politics is put to the side and countries with the means to help those less able come forward and extend the hand of friendship.
To anyone out there who is reading this and has lost a relative or friend, our prayers are with you.
Cheers
Frosty
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had a collection at work today and started it off with £20 myself - ended up with £400 so will continue with it once we re-open on monday.
good charity store so we are
we raised £1000 for CLIC last month.
good charity store so we are
we raised £1000 for CLIC last month.Derek
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I donated to Dec, here are some more sites for anyone who wants to donate.
Even a pound will make a difference so please help out.
Louis
A list of some of the places you can donate...
The Disasters Emergency Committee - www.dec.org.uk - is an umbrella group of UK aid organisations - including ActionAid, British Red Cross, Oxfam - working to provide clean water, food and shelter to thousands. To call from the UK dial 0870 60 60 900.
The United Nations World Food Programme - www.wfp.org - is seeking donations to feed victims of the earthquake.
Medecins Sans Frontieres - www.msf.org - is sending aid workers to the region, focusing on medical care for survivors and displaced people after the rescue operations.
The United Nations Children's Fund, Unicef - www.unicef.org.uk - is working to meet the "urgent needs of hundreds of thousands of people" affected by the tsunami disaster.
The UN refugee agency, UNHCR - www.unhcr.ch - which has been helping victims of conflicts in Indonesia and Sri Lanka, is delivering relief supplies to tsunami survivors in both countries.
Save the Children - www.savethechildren.org.uk - has already flown a plane out to Sri Lanka carrying plastic sheeting for temporary shelter, tents to run children's services from, and essentials such as clothing and cooking utensils.
Anti-poverty organisation Care International - www.care.org - has already provided food for thousands of affected people in Sri Lanka.
Cafod, the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development - www.cafod.org.uk - is working with partners across Asia to provide shelter, food aid and medical assistance, and assessing what further relief is needed.
The Red Cross, and its sister charity the Red Crescent, is supplying blankets, cooking utensils and other crucial goods. It has had to set up a new site - www.ifrc.org - because of the unprecedented demand from people wanting to make donations.
The Hindu Forum Disaster Relief Task Force - www.hinduforum.org - comprises 50 organisations and is raising money, clothes and medicines. Donations can be made online or by calling the ISKCON Disaster Appeal on 01923 856848 or Sewa International on 0116 261 0303.
Christian Aid - www.christianaid.org.uk - has already allocated £250,000 from its emergency fund to help the victims of this disaster but says more money is needed.
Christian charity Tearfund - www.tearfund.org - and its partners in Sri Lanka and India are helping devastated fishing communities and coastal villages get back on their feet.
Islamic Relief - www.islamic-relief.com - has also launched an appeal to provide medical supplies, tents and sanitation facilities for those affected.
The Islamic Aid Emergency Relief Fund - www.islamicaid.org.uk - aims to provide immediate relief and long-term support to people in the affected areas.
Another Islamic charity, Muslim Hands - www.muslimhands.org- is collecting money and sending volunteers to help in Indonesia and Malaysia.
Medair - www.medair.org - is providing emergency support to agencies with a long term presence in Sri Lanka and its medical experts are assessing the likelihood of malaria and diarrhoea.
World Vision - www.worldvision.org.uk - has also launched an appeal and has already delivered relief goods to thousands.
Concern - www.concern.net - is working with local partners to meet the needs of families in the devastated coastal villages of Tamil Nadu, the worst affected state in India.
The International Rescue Committee - www.theirc.org - is providing emergency supplies and materials to "people most affected by the crisis".
The Salvation Army - www.salvationarmy.org.uk has local teams working in a number of affected areas and is sending a team from its international headquarters on Wednesday evening.
Muslim Aid - www.muslimaid.org - has already donated £100,000 towards the purchase of food, clothing and medicine in the region but wants to raise more.
Action Aid - www.actionaid.org - is the biggest charity working in south India. It is focusing its relief work on the coast of Tamil Nadu, where 7,000 people died. It is working on providing medical assistance and sanitation for the survivors.
Asia Quake Relief Appeal UK, a UK-based Sri Lankan organisation, is also raising money and can be emailed at asia-quakerelief@europe.com
Even a pound will make a difference so please help out.
Louis
A list of some of the places you can donate...
The Disasters Emergency Committee - www.dec.org.uk - is an umbrella group of UK aid organisations - including ActionAid, British Red Cross, Oxfam - working to provide clean water, food and shelter to thousands. To call from the UK dial 0870 60 60 900.
The United Nations World Food Programme - www.wfp.org - is seeking donations to feed victims of the earthquake.
Medecins Sans Frontieres - www.msf.org - is sending aid workers to the region, focusing on medical care for survivors and displaced people after the rescue operations.
The United Nations Children's Fund, Unicef - www.unicef.org.uk - is working to meet the "urgent needs of hundreds of thousands of people" affected by the tsunami disaster.
The UN refugee agency, UNHCR - www.unhcr.ch - which has been helping victims of conflicts in Indonesia and Sri Lanka, is delivering relief supplies to tsunami survivors in both countries.
Save the Children - www.savethechildren.org.uk - has already flown a plane out to Sri Lanka carrying plastic sheeting for temporary shelter, tents to run children's services from, and essentials such as clothing and cooking utensils.
Anti-poverty organisation Care International - www.care.org - has already provided food for thousands of affected people in Sri Lanka.
Cafod, the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development - www.cafod.org.uk - is working with partners across Asia to provide shelter, food aid and medical assistance, and assessing what further relief is needed.
The Red Cross, and its sister charity the Red Crescent, is supplying blankets, cooking utensils and other crucial goods. It has had to set up a new site - www.ifrc.org - because of the unprecedented demand from people wanting to make donations.
The Hindu Forum Disaster Relief Task Force - www.hinduforum.org - comprises 50 organisations and is raising money, clothes and medicines. Donations can be made online or by calling the ISKCON Disaster Appeal on 01923 856848 or Sewa International on 0116 261 0303.
Christian Aid - www.christianaid.org.uk - has already allocated £250,000 from its emergency fund to help the victims of this disaster but says more money is needed.
Christian charity Tearfund - www.tearfund.org - and its partners in Sri Lanka and India are helping devastated fishing communities and coastal villages get back on their feet.
Islamic Relief - www.islamic-relief.com - has also launched an appeal to provide medical supplies, tents and sanitation facilities for those affected.
The Islamic Aid Emergency Relief Fund - www.islamicaid.org.uk - aims to provide immediate relief and long-term support to people in the affected areas.
Another Islamic charity, Muslim Hands - www.muslimhands.org- is collecting money and sending volunteers to help in Indonesia and Malaysia.
Medair - www.medair.org - is providing emergency support to agencies with a long term presence in Sri Lanka and its medical experts are assessing the likelihood of malaria and diarrhoea.
World Vision - www.worldvision.org.uk - has also launched an appeal and has already delivered relief goods to thousands.
Concern - www.concern.net - is working with local partners to meet the needs of families in the devastated coastal villages of Tamil Nadu, the worst affected state in India.
The International Rescue Committee - www.theirc.org - is providing emergency supplies and materials to "people most affected by the crisis".
The Salvation Army - www.salvationarmy.org.uk has local teams working in a number of affected areas and is sending a team from its international headquarters on Wednesday evening.
Muslim Aid - www.muslimaid.org - has already donated £100,000 towards the purchase of food, clothing and medicine in the region but wants to raise more.
Action Aid - www.actionaid.org - is the biggest charity working in south India. It is focusing its relief work on the coast of Tamil Nadu, where 7,000 people died. It is working on providing medical assistance and sanitation for the survivors.
Asia Quake Relief Appeal UK, a UK-based Sri Lankan organisation, is also raising money and can be emailed at asia-quakerelief@europe.com
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We were out in the Maldives when it happened!
I hope I can reassure people that in my experience the disaster shouldn’t deter from a nice holiday out in the Maldives.
We were there for 3 weeks for our honeymoon. We just had breakfast and had gone to the gift shop to look at presents for the family, as it was 2 days from the end of our holiday. We walked to the pier to see the tide was right in and the water was a muddy colour. We didn’t think much of it and then walk 30 metres down the island to see that there was water by some of the villas, but we still didn’t think much of it. We then walked to the beach, which was about another 20 meters away to see the tide was right out exposing the house reef and all this in the space of about two minutes. Very strange I thought and explained to my Wife how it reminded me of a story from infant school about a tidal wave and how this fisherman saved members of his village by setting fire to there houses to get them off the beach before the wave hit. It still didn’t click what was going on and as we walked back to our villa to find other guests discussing what was going on. We were told that there was an earthquake in Male and then in Indonesia. Our room boy said it was a tidal thing due to the position of the moon it all seemed like Chinese whispers at the time. Meanwhile the tide appeared to be rushing back in again. Our next door neighbours family who were from Russia were really panicking. They had their bags packed and were running to the reception. In retrospect I guess they must have heard on the radio about the earthquake. Fortuently the next wave was to be the largest and only managed to flood a couple of villas on the island. Another foot or so and it would have been a different story though. The tide appeared to then quickly go back out leaving fish flapping around on the sand and in the reef some of us went down to try and put them back in the water. Then the tide started to rush back and it wasn’t the fish that would be in danger but the people saving them. We still didn’t know for sure what was going on until the afternoon when we got the electricity back and switched on to BBC world news. That’s when we decided to ring home to tell our families that all was well- For us anyway. 8am British time on a Boxing Day trying to explain the situation to people with hangovers is not the easiest thing to get across! The stupid thing was thinking about telling friends about what we had witnessed and thinking they wouldn’t believe us when we got home thinking that the waves would only be a small story on the tail end of the morning news and we really didn’t realise that death and distruction was being caused by these waves. We then decided to carry on our holiday and didn’t see much more of the news until I had a text from my father saying that another wave was coming and to get to higher ground. Higher ground in the Maldives is climbing up a palm tree, because there is no such thing. We still carried on regardless and were just told by officials from the island not to go in the water. Pretty obvious as the tide appeared to be going in and out every 5 minutes of course this wasn’t actually the tide, but the tidal waves. It was late in the evening when I felt a little uneasy. We went to see the television and CNN was on, although it was breaking up. From what we could make out they were saying that the worst place to be right now was the Maldives and they were really dramatising the situation. (If you ever find yourself in this sort of situation don’t rely on CNN to give you news. Get the BBC) Couple this with the text of a large wave and it did put me off me meal. In fact that meal reminded me of the instance when the twin towers got hit but hadn’t fallen down yet. It was like the titanic had hit the iceberg, but we were unsinkable! With the odd tourist and the odd person knowing that wasn’t the case and things may take a decided turn for the worse.
That evening I made sure my inflatable dinghy was ready to go up on the villa roof. I made two life jackets out of puffer jackets and the dinghy seats and placed three wooden sun loungers on top of each other to gain easy access to the villa roof. I then place an oar in the boat lodging it against a post so that if the boat floated or moved in any way then the oar would hit the door of the villa and give us an early warning if water was near the villa. A few sobering thought went through our heads that night, but Fortunately none of this was necessary and the next morning we were out snorkelling meanwhile friends and family were texting us trying to see if we had survived the night!
I think the Maldives got off lightly in comparison to places like shri lanker, still we heard of stories of complete islands being washed away. A diver was allegedly found with a broken neck on another island and a manager of a neighbouring island died of a heart attack when he see what was happening. If you are planing a holiday to the Maldives then I would say carry on. I very nearly stayed out there and have been looking for flights back out there since coming home. The area relies on tourism and in all honesty I don’t think many holidaymakers will see any of the impact when going to the Maldives. I was talking to my room boy and he reckons that there were 21 resorts unaffected 20 resorts with some damage and 6 resorts that were no longer possible to be used as tourist islands. If you have booked to go out there then I would suggest emailing your island for an update on the situation. We stayed at Villamendhoo Island and this island was unaffected. Villamendhoo is in the south atoll and I believe it is near Lilly beach.
It’s still very hard to comprehend what has really happened out there and I am amazed at the goodwill and generosity of my countries people. Watching the news after the advent is quiet strange as now I can see why members of our family were panicking so much. We feel quite out of phase with things. 150'000 people is a difficult number to comprehend when you realise its the number of people who have lost there life and they are probably the lucky ones as they probably died relitivly quickly. Its the poor sods who are left with no shelter or fresh water. Thats why its so important to give.
All I can say is if you are planing a holiday in the Maldives then go for it all the people in these affected areas still need tourism. It would be nice for travel agents to suggest things to take to said resorts in order to help. Putting unwanted clothes in a you’re travel bag or something. If your like us losing a bit of weight and space in you travel bags on the journey home means you can buy more of those handmade gifts and stuff which will also benefit the economy out there.
Darth Bourj/ KellyVTS.
I hope I can reassure people that in my experience the disaster shouldn’t deter from a nice holiday out in the Maldives.
We were there for 3 weeks for our honeymoon. We just had breakfast and had gone to the gift shop to look at presents for the family, as it was 2 days from the end of our holiday. We walked to the pier to see the tide was right in and the water was a muddy colour. We didn’t think much of it and then walk 30 metres down the island to see that there was water by some of the villas, but we still didn’t think much of it. We then walked to the beach, which was about another 20 meters away to see the tide was right out exposing the house reef and all this in the space of about two minutes. Very strange I thought and explained to my Wife how it reminded me of a story from infant school about a tidal wave and how this fisherman saved members of his village by setting fire to there houses to get them off the beach before the wave hit. It still didn’t click what was going on and as we walked back to our villa to find other guests discussing what was going on. We were told that there was an earthquake in Male and then in Indonesia. Our room boy said it was a tidal thing due to the position of the moon it all seemed like Chinese whispers at the time. Meanwhile the tide appeared to be rushing back in again. Our next door neighbours family who were from Russia were really panicking. They had their bags packed and were running to the reception. In retrospect I guess they must have heard on the radio about the earthquake. Fortuently the next wave was to be the largest and only managed to flood a couple of villas on the island. Another foot or so and it would have been a different story though. The tide appeared to then quickly go back out leaving fish flapping around on the sand and in the reef some of us went down to try and put them back in the water. Then the tide started to rush back and it wasn’t the fish that would be in danger but the people saving them. We still didn’t know for sure what was going on until the afternoon when we got the electricity back and switched on to BBC world news. That’s when we decided to ring home to tell our families that all was well- For us anyway. 8am British time on a Boxing Day trying to explain the situation to people with hangovers is not the easiest thing to get across! The stupid thing was thinking about telling friends about what we had witnessed and thinking they wouldn’t believe us when we got home thinking that the waves would only be a small story on the tail end of the morning news and we really didn’t realise that death and distruction was being caused by these waves. We then decided to carry on our holiday and didn’t see much more of the news until I had a text from my father saying that another wave was coming and to get to higher ground. Higher ground in the Maldives is climbing up a palm tree, because there is no such thing. We still carried on regardless and were just told by officials from the island not to go in the water. Pretty obvious as the tide appeared to be going in and out every 5 minutes of course this wasn’t actually the tide, but the tidal waves. It was late in the evening when I felt a little uneasy. We went to see the television and CNN was on, although it was breaking up. From what we could make out they were saying that the worst place to be right now was the Maldives and they were really dramatising the situation. (If you ever find yourself in this sort of situation don’t rely on CNN to give you news. Get the BBC) Couple this with the text of a large wave and it did put me off me meal. In fact that meal reminded me of the instance when the twin towers got hit but hadn’t fallen down yet. It was like the titanic had hit the iceberg, but we were unsinkable! With the odd tourist and the odd person knowing that wasn’t the case and things may take a decided turn for the worse.
That evening I made sure my inflatable dinghy was ready to go up on the villa roof. I made two life jackets out of puffer jackets and the dinghy seats and placed three wooden sun loungers on top of each other to gain easy access to the villa roof. I then place an oar in the boat lodging it against a post so that if the boat floated or moved in any way then the oar would hit the door of the villa and give us an early warning if water was near the villa. A few sobering thought went through our heads that night, but Fortunately none of this was necessary and the next morning we were out snorkelling meanwhile friends and family were texting us trying to see if we had survived the night!
I think the Maldives got off lightly in comparison to places like shri lanker, still we heard of stories of complete islands being washed away. A diver was allegedly found with a broken neck on another island and a manager of a neighbouring island died of a heart attack when he see what was happening. If you are planing a holiday to the Maldives then I would say carry on. I very nearly stayed out there and have been looking for flights back out there since coming home. The area relies on tourism and in all honesty I don’t think many holidaymakers will see any of the impact when going to the Maldives. I was talking to my room boy and he reckons that there were 21 resorts unaffected 20 resorts with some damage and 6 resorts that were no longer possible to be used as tourist islands. If you have booked to go out there then I would suggest emailing your island for an update on the situation. We stayed at Villamendhoo Island and this island was unaffected. Villamendhoo is in the south atoll and I believe it is near Lilly beach.
It’s still very hard to comprehend what has really happened out there and I am amazed at the goodwill and generosity of my countries people. Watching the news after the advent is quiet strange as now I can see why members of our family were panicking so much. We feel quite out of phase with things. 150'000 people is a difficult number to comprehend when you realise its the number of people who have lost there life and they are probably the lucky ones as they probably died relitivly quickly. Its the poor sods who are left with no shelter or fresh water. Thats why its so important to give.
All I can say is if you are planing a holiday in the Maldives then go for it all the people in these affected areas still need tourism. It would be nice for travel agents to suggest things to take to said resorts in order to help. Putting unwanted clothes in a you’re travel bag or something. If your like us losing a bit of weight and space in you travel bags on the journey home means you can buy more of those handmade gifts and stuff which will also benefit the economy out there.
Darth Bourj/ KellyVTS.
What a remarkable story!I was also in the Maldives in September and was shocked to hear of the Tsunami affecting the islands as they rely so much on tourism.
I have since found out the island we went to (The Four Seasons) wasn't badly affected and everyone was ok.
Glad you are back safe and sound
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our fund raising for the tsunami appeal should top £1000 by tonight, was sitting at £879 this morning
Derek
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