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Thursday, December 30, 2004
Tsunami aid

(Outdated numbers but a good graphical representation.)

Dear friends, if you are fortunate enough to be alive and well this holiday season, please pray and/or donate to the victims of the Asia tsunami. Better yet, partner with some of your friends who have matching coporate gifts. For example, if you raise $500, your work place may match your funds so you actually have $1,000 of aid.

Nearly 119,000 are dead and the figure rises every day, the AFP reports. The death toll may double as disease spreads. Ugh, just imagine the smell of the decomposing bodies that are washing up ashore.

The Dec. 26 tsunami easily marks one of the deadliest natural disasters to date.

Up to five million are homeless, estimates the World Health Organization.

Debris are scattered on a narrow section of Phi Phi Island where bungalows formerly stood at Ton Sai Bay,Phi Phi Island, after a tsunami hit the area, December 28, 2004. (REUTERS/Luis Enrique Ascui)

Photo courtesy AP or AFP-I forgot.

A Sri Lankan resident walks on the rubble of his house in the southern coastal town of Matara after the region was hit by quake-triggered tsunamis.(AFP/Jimin Lai)

Submerged building near the pier at Ton Sai Bay in Thailand's Phi Phi island, December 28, 2004 after a tsunami hit the area. (REUTERS/Luis Enrique Ascui)

Acehnese walk through the rubbish at the biggest mosque in Banda Aceh, Indonesia following the 9.0-earthquake and resulting tsunami.(AFP/Bay Ismoyo)

Thousands are missing, according to the AFP.

Indian residents look at pictures of dead people displayed on a wall for identification at a church in Velankani, some 365 km south of Madras after tidal waves hit the region.(AFP/Prakash Singh)

UNICEF estimates that at least one third of the dead are children.

Kamalvathi, a survivor of Sunday's devastating tsunami, undergoes treatment in Cuddalore, 112 miles south of the Indian city of Madras, December 28, 2004. (Arko Datta/Reuters)

Zulkifli Mohamad Nor grieves at his home in Penang, Malaysia after describing how tidal waves killed five of his seven children. (AFP/Tengku Bahar)

The news reports that survivors are scavenging coconuts and have fought over donated food. Some have not eaten for two days.

Indian rescue workers distribute food and clothes among flood affected people after tsunami hit Nagapattinam, 350 km (219 miles) south of the southern Indian city of Madras, December 28, 2004. (REUTERS/Punit Paranjpe)

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