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Disclaimer: All content on this site is solely for the purpose of information, and is not to be viewed as an endorsement of products or services provided by linked sites. Contact us for article submissions and suggestions for additional links.For Indians in the U.S. who wish to make financial contributions towards India's earthquake relief, here are some of the organizations to which you may send your check:
1) PRIME MINISTER'S NATIONAL RELIEF FUND: Send checks in dollars or rupees. Checks/Money Orders should be drawn in favor of "Prime Minister's National Relief Fund" and sent to any one of the following addresses:
Prime Minister's National Relief Fund
Embassy of India
Attn: Head of Chancery 2107 Massachusetts Avenue,
NW Washington, DC 20008
Wire Transfer Information:
Prime Minister's National Relief Fund (Riggs Bank, Washington, DC)
Account Number - 08115910
Route Number - 0540000302) INDIA DEVELOPMENT AND RELIEF FUND (http://www.idrf.org). Donations to IDRF are tax exempted in the United States (Tax exempt ID: 52-1555563), and a receipt will be mailed to donors. Make checks payable to IDRF, and mail it to the following address:
IDRF
Attention: Nagaraj Patil
1580 Hollenbeck Ave., Apt #4
Sunnyvale, CA-94087 USA.In the memo, please mention "Gujarat Earthquake Relief."
For more information contact: Vijay Shrivastava at (770) 394 5031
3) VEDANTA SOCIETY OF WESTERN WASHINGTON
2716 Broadway E. SEATTLE, WA 98102
Phone: 206-323-1228Donations to the Vedanta Society are tax deductible in accordance with the US tax laws.
4) The BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha will be collecting a fund for the Earthquake relief in India. All contributions are to be directed to:
BAPS Earthquake Relief Fund
P. O. Box 891449
Dallas, TX 75389 - 1449The BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha has played a major role during times of calamities throughout India, for details on the progress of the 2001 earthquake relief work by BAPS, please feel free to visit : http://www.swaminarayan.org/news/2001/01/earthquake/index.htm
Ritesh Desai
(770)696-4798
[email protected]5) AMERICARES
161 Cherry Street,
New Canaan, CT 06840
Contact: Elizabeth Griffin at 1-800-486-43576) AMERICAN RED CROSS (http://www.redcross.org)
Donors wishing to designate their gifts to India should make checks payable to the "American Red Cross--International Response Fund" and earmarked for "India Earthquake Fund" in the memo section of the check or an accompanying letter, should specify India Earthquake Fund.Donor can use a secure online credit card donation services or you may send your donation to the American Red Cross, P.O. Box 37243, Washington, D.C. 20013.
Earthquake in India InterAction Members Respond -- How YOU Can Help
See the list here: http://www.interaction.org/india00/index.htmlThe following agencies are accepting contributions for assistance in India as members of InterAction, a coalition of relief, development and refugee assistance agencies.
a) Adventist Development and Relief Agency, 800-424-ADRA, http://www.adra.org
b) Asian American Hotel Owners Association, Fred Schwartz, (404) 816 5759
c) AAPI, Dr. Dayanand Nayak; (914) 732-3322
d) American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, 711 Third Ave., New York 10017. (212) 885-0832. http://www.jdc.org
e) B'nai B'rith International Disaster Relief Fund, 1640 Rhode Island Ave. N.W., Washington 20036. (202) 857- 6533. http://www.bnaibrith.org
f) CARE, 151 Ellis St. N.E., Atlanta 30303. (800) 521-CARE. http://www.care.org
g) Catholic Relief Services, P.O. Box 17090, Baltimore 21203. (800) 736- 3467. http://www.catholicrelief.org
h) Christian Children's Fund, P.O. Box 26484, Richmond 23261. (800)-SPONSOR. http://www.christianchildrensfund.org
i) Christian Reformed World Relief Committee, 800-55-CRWRC, http://www.crwrc.org
j) Church World Service, 475 Riverside Dr., New York 10115. (212) 870-2167. http://www.churchworldservice.org
k) Concern Worldwide, 212-557-8000, http://www.concernusa.org
l) Direct Relief International, 27 South La Patera Lane, Santa Barbara, Calif. 93117. (805) 964-4767. http://www.directrelief.org
m) Doctors Without Borders, P.O. Box 2247, New York 10116. (888) 392-0392. http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org
n) Food for the Hungry, 7729 E. Greenway Rd., Scottsdale, Ariz. 85260. (800) 2HUNGER. http://www.fh.org
o) Gujarati Samaj of New York, 173-15 Horace Harding Expressway, Flushing, NY 11365; Peter Bheddah, president, (718) 565-7765, Chandrakant Patel, secretary, (718) 762-9007.
p) Gujarati Samaj of Washington DC, 9845 Lee Highway, Fairfax, VA 22030
q) Jackson Heights Merchants Association, (718) 651-6969
r) Leva Patidar Samaj of USA, 716 Sweetwater Circle, Old Hickory, TN 37138; (615) 391-4LPS.
s) Lutheran World Relief, P.O. Box 17061, Baltimore 21298. (800) LWR-LWR2. http://www.lwr.org
t) MAP International, 800-225-8550, http://www.map.org
u) Operation USA, 8320 Melrose Ave., Suite 200, Los Angles 90069. (800) 678-7255. http://www.opusa.org
v) Oxfam America, India Earthquake Response, P.O. Box 1745, Boston, Mass. 02105 1-800-776-9326 http://www.oxfamamerica.org
w) Salvation Army World Service Office, 703-684-5528
x) The Association for India’s Development (AID), (301) 422-7765
y) United Methodist Committee on Relief, 475 Riverside Dr., New York 10115. (800) 554-8583. http://www.gbgm-umc.org
z) US Fund for UNICEF, 333 E. 38th St., New York 10016. (800) FOR-KIDS.
aa) United Way International, 701 N. Fairfax St., Alexandria, Va. 22314 (703) 519-0092. http://www.uwint.org
bb) World Concern, 800-755-5022, http://www.worldconcern.org
cc) World Relief, 800-535-5433, http://www.worldrelief.org
dd) World Vision, 888-56-CHILD, http://www.worldvision.org
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