Humanitarian Assistance To The Victims of the Bay of Bengal Earthquake and Tidal Waves

If you want to help, here’s one of the ways you can. (And from Myrick, some more ways you might be able to help, at the Acorn).

Sin­ga­pore Red Cross Press Release:

Human­i­tar­ian Assis­tance To The Vic­tims of the Bay of Ben­gal Earth­quake and Tidal Waves

The Sin­ga­pore Red Cross Soci­ety in response to the call for inter­na­tional assis­tance by the Inter­na­tional Fed­er­a­tion of Red Cross and Red Cres­cent Soci­eties, is launch­ing a pub­lic appeal to help the vic­tims of the Bay of Ben­gal earth­quake and tidal waves.

As an imme­di­ate response to the dis­as­ter, the Sin­ga­pore Red Cross will be send­ing a sum of Sin­ga­pore dol­lars, One hun­dred and fifty thou­sand (S$150,000) to Thai­land, Indone­sia, Sri Lanka, and India (through the Inter­na­tional Fed­er­a­tion of Red Cross and Red Cres­cent Soci­eties). The Sin­ga­pore Red Cross is also in touch with the Inter­na­tional Fed­er­a­tion of Red Cross and Red Cres­cent Soci­eties and the national soci­eties of all affected coun­tries to deter­mine what assis­tance is required to assist the victims.

The Sin­ga­pore Red Cross hopes to raise Sin­ga­pore dol­lars, One Mil­lion (S$1,000,000) for this appeal.

The Sin­ga­pore Red Cross calls on Sin­ga­pore­ans and other like-minded
organ­i­sa­tions to come for­ward to con­tribute to this appeal and help the vic­tims affected by the earth­quake and tidal waves that swept across the India Ocean and affected Indone­sia, Malaysia, Thai­land, Mal­dives, India and Sri Lanka.

The Sin­ga­pore Red Cross requests dona­tion for the affected coun­tries. The money donated to this emer­gency appeal will be used to fund pur­chases and direct deliv­ery of emer­gency items like med­i­cine and first aid, food parcels and other relief sup­plies for the dis­placed and home­less victims.

The pub­lic can send their dona­tions:
1) By cheque to the “Sin­ga­pore Red Cross Soci­ety“
Please indi­cate behind the cheque “Tidal Waves Asia”. Include name, address and tele­phone num­ber at the back of the cheque as a receipt will be sent to you.
Post the Cheque to:
Sin­ga­pore Red Cross, Red Cross House, 15 Penang Lane, Sin­ga­pore 238486
2) Donors may wish to come per­son­ally to make a dona­tion at the Red Cross House, 15 Penang Lane between 9.00am to 5.30pm on week­days and from 9.30am to 12.30pm on Sat­ur­days.
For more infor­ma­tion, please con­tact the fol­low­ing:
1. Mr Lim Theam Poh
Man­ager, Inter­na­tional Ser­vices Divi­sion
Sin­ga­pore Red Cross
Tel: 6 336‑0269
Email: theampoh.lim@redcross.org.sg
2. Ms Carol Teo
Man­ager, Cor­po­rate Ser­vices Divi­sion
Sin­ga­pore Red Cross
Tel: 6 336 0269 / Mobile: 9847 2024
Email: carol.teo@redcross.org.sg