Appeal for Help
May 30th, 2006 at 6:18 am by Susie
The Pacific Rim area continues to be battered by earthquakes:
JAMPRIP, Indonesia, May 30 — Homeless earthquake survivors living in rice fields and makeshift shacks begged for food and water under a blazing sun Monday as the death toll from Saturday’s quake continued to rise.
Indonesia’s Social Affairs Ministry on Tuesday raised the official death toll to 5,427.
Soldiers began delivering bags of rice Monday to village chiefs in the mountainous quake zone on the island of Java, but survivors called the aid meager and slow. The United Nations planned a global appeal, saying relief money was running low.
“We have 300 families in this village and have only gotten two sacks of rice,” said Lastri, 27, holding a 5-month-old child. “It’s not enough.”
Please donate here or here. Every little bit helps when the need is so desperate.
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