December 30, 2004
Donating to Tsunami Relief; A look at Amazon
By Ian
I'm taking Vinayak's suggestion that this is one of the best places to donate if you'd like to provide some help to the victims of the earthquake/tsunami.
Of course, a good deal of discussion is going on about public and private donation. For me it's akin to the debate about voting. No, the amount I can afford to send is not going to be decisive in someone's life, as much as I might wish it to be. But when you aggregate the donations, the real effect can be huge.
Take, for example, donations through Amazon's Red Cross page. As of Glenn Reynold's posting about it yesterday at 1:49 pm, the total stood at approximately $2,000,000. Right now, the total is $4,356,235.12 (at 10:50 am, EST), over 72251 donations, for an average of $60.30 for each donation. Personally, I find the mobilization of private funds amazing. My hope now is that it will get to where it's needed and do as much good as possible.
Posted at December 30, 2004 10:54 AM
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