CONTRIBUTE TO EARTHQUAKE RELIEF PROGRAMMES
(Organisations in the U.S.A)

CauseanEffect.org - for a few tears less
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The Times of India Relief Fund

Prime Minister's National Relief Fund

World Vision provides relief to 15,000 families

You can send your donations online to the International Red Cross at the following site: http://www.redcross.org/donate/donate-now.html
Please earmark your donations to the "India Disaster Relief Fund".

Livelihood Relief Fund: Gujarat Earthquake 2001
The CSE has a page of information from the Disaster Mitigation Institute, Ahmedabad as well as some links for making online donations to relief and rehabilitation efforts. http://www.cseindia.org/html/extra/earthquake2001.htm

Contribute to the quake relief programme of the Kutch Ecological Research Centre
Appeal for immediate relief programme at Tera, western Kutch

For close to two years now, the Kutch Ecological Research Centre (KERC), a unit of The Corbett Foundation (an award winning wildlife conservation NGO), has been operating out of village Tera, Abdasa Taluka, west of Bhuj and near the forward air base at Naliya.

The objective of the project is to provide social services (covering 41 villages in Abdasa Taluka with basic health care) and to evolve a consensus among local communities aimed at protecting and regenerating the thousands of hectares of grassland near Tera which are home to nilgai, chinkara, hare, jackal, jungle cat, caracal, wolf, houbara and great Indian bustard and dozens of birds of prey - and provide grass to thousands of livestock.

We are happy to report that our staff at Tera are safe, though the buildings suffered some damage in the devastating earthquake of January 26. Elsewhere in the village many older buildings collapsed and one woman and one girl were reported killed. Damage and mortality in surrounding villages has been extensive.

After a rapid assessment of the needs of the area, we are launching a relief programme using our staff and vehicles at Tera, reinforced by units from our community medical and outreach facility at Dhikuli in Uttaranchal.

We urgently need financial support for this programme, which will begin within days. Cheques may be sent in favour of The Corbett Foundation, with the words ''for Kutch Ecological Research Centre'' inscribed on the back.

All funds received will be used specifically and only for relief works in support of the community in Abdasa Taluka.

Cheques and donations may be sent to The Corbett Foundation at
A-3 Gitanjali Enclave,
New Delhi 110017,
India.

For further queries contact The Corbett Foundation at 91 11 686 1194 and 686 1189,
or Nirmal Ghosh at 91 11 410 4868, email: [email protected]

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