Helping the Tsunami Victims
10:01 PM - Jan 2, 2005
Anders Jacobsen has volunteered to pay $1 to the British Red Cross for anyone creating a weblog post on the front page or creating permanent links in the weblog’s blogroll, linking to the organizations listed below, and then linking to his blog and his post, Webloggers: Give to tsunami victims and I’ll give too! Here’s a list of some of the organizations accepting donations and other contributions:
International aid organizations:
UK/Europe:
North America:
Anders Jacobsen: Webloggers: Give to tsunami victims and I’ll give too!
If you wish to help tsunami victims, please be sure to donate to sources where you absolutely know your funds or other contributions will indeed help those victims. There are a lot of scams going around.
I just saw a screenshot of Anders Jacobsen’s blog post, Webloggers: Give to tsunami victims and I’ll give too! on MSNBC TV as part of a story of bloggers helping the tsunami victims, covered by Will Femia. Cool! What’s even better, though, is to hear that bloggers are playing an incredibly helpful role in coordinating people traveling to these countries to help rebuild, in addition to helping provide links and information.
See more on this at Will’s weblog, Clicked: Tsunami, the blog view and MSNBC’s coverage at Asia’s Deadly Tsunami. You’ll find people volunteering to travel to stricken countries to help and much more at The South-East Asia Earthquake and Tsunami Blog.
Those of us who’ve been blogging long before most people had ever even heard the word “blog” have known all this time the value and helpfulness of weblogs. I’m not at all surprised to see the outpouring of bloggers wanting to help, to inform, and to share information. I’m thrilled, though, to see that major news sources are finally beginning to pick up on this.
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