No, seriously.
(More blog entries from bbirney)
40,000. 40,000 dead. The US government has pledged $15 million. That amounts to $0.05 USD per citizen. If every citizen gave $50, we could put our own government to shame.
So:
1) Get out your wallet.
2) Go to the the Red Cross/Red Crescent's website.
3) Give $50. Go into debt if you have to.
[Edit 12.29.04]: 70,000, and the US has pledged $35 million in aid. We're now up to 11 cents per citizen. The Aussies, with 20 million citizens and $27 million pledged in aid, are up around $1.35 per citizen.
From a Reuters article:
In parts of India's Tamil Nadu state officials gave up trying to count the dead and were counting survivors instead, while burying bodies as quickly as possible in mass graves.
Yikes.
