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China earthquake. 55k+ dead. Please help.

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On 12 May 2008 a major earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale jolted Wenchuan County, Aba Prefecture in southwest China’s Sichuan Province.

The confirmed death toll rose to 55,740 and an additional 24,960 remained missing 12 days after the quake, said the State Council. Local branches of the Red Cross Society of China are providing emergency relief assistance.

For a little perspective in death tolls, both are about 10 times worse than either 9/11 or Katrina.

For relief aid in China, ways to you can donate and help:
1. Mercycorps: http://www.mercycorps.org/chinaearthquake/
2. America Red Cross: http://www.redcross.org/news/in/profiles/Intl_profile_ChinaEarthquake.html
3. International Federation of Red Cross: http://www.ifrc.org/what/disasters/response/sichuan-earthquake/index.asp
4. Canada red cross: please make sure donate to China-earthquake. https://www.paypaq.com/redcross/new/index.php
5. Americares: http://www.americares.org/
6. Salvation Army: http://www.salvationarmyusa.org/usn/www_usn_2.nsf/vw-dynamic-index/E55A96AA0EFEA3EF8525744A006AF141

Please donate to the above charities. All donations made to TCKID from May 23 to June 23rd will be sent to the above charities for the China earthquake relief.


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May 23, 2008 | Filed Under General Forum 

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6 Responses to “China earthquake. 55k+ dead. Please help.”

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    Cynthia
    Cynthia Says:
    May 23rd, 2008 at 6:34 pm

    And I believe the death toll is still rising. As of last week, there are still many village that have not been rescued due to lack of communication to the outside and difficult to get in. I don’t know if they have been able to get to these villages.

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    MsMerising Says:
    May 23rd, 2008 at 8:18 pm

    This is to intense. I had a premonition an earthquake was going to happen but I assumed California. I didn’t expect China. This is heartbreaking…

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    kristine
    kristine Says:
    May 24th, 2008 at 8:05 pm

    This was so sad.. Was watching the news in social studies and just seeing the parents look for their children..

    I’m not a person to cry a lot but that really wrenched my heart.

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    livia Says:
    May 25th, 2008 at 1:37 am

    My whole chinese part of the family in is chengdu, luckily no ones hurt and the army is efficient, but its terrible about all those schools.

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    Ayako
    Ayako Says:
    May 25th, 2008 at 6:41 am

    I am pleased to hear your family was unhurt, Livia. How is the situation now? Do they have electricity and hot water again? How are they getting food and clean water into the area?

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    miyon
    miyon Says:
    June 6th, 2008 at 7:02 am

    ::sigh::

    “China quake death toll climbs to 69,127″ as of June 5, 2008.

    (source: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2008/06/05/China_quake_death_toll_climbs_to_69127/UPI-72671212681753/)

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