Tsunami Appeal

Dave Baker · 2005-01-01T18:24:39+00:00

OK it's off topic so apologies but if anyone hasn't given a few quid yet youcan go to the DEC appeal site and donate online. Even a tenner will help ifeveryone gives something. It'll take no more than a couple of minutes to get tothat site and complete the form. Brits are leading the world in donations per head by a significant margin.Over £100m donated in the last few days at a rate of over £1m per hour and nosign of slowing down yet.My own estimation of the death toll which started being reported at 10,000 orso and is still only showing at about 100k is that it will be a quarter of amillion. I don't think anyone has yet got close to estimating the number ofpeople still buried under debris or swept out to sea. Sweden alone has 3,500holidaymakers missing but only a handful confirmed dead and by now one has toassume, with great sadness, that most of those will remain missing. The truedeath total is going to be massively more than anyone yet believes.So that bottle of booze you were going to get pissed up on this weekend. Givethe cost of that to the appeal and buy a bottle of lemonade instead. You'llnever miss the money but someone who has now lost a house or family or bothwill get more out of it than the hangover which is all you're going to end upwith.

Jan 01, 2005 42 Replies

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Ben Blaney 21 years ago

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Huw 21 years ago

How much money was raised to help victims of this quake I wonder?

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I don't remember such a collosal worldwide reaction then, but I suppose global communications have improved enormously since that time. Of course a lot of time has passed so maybe there was a huge global reaction and I have forgotten about it, or maybe the Chinese kept the scale of the thing quiet? I don't know.

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OG 21 years ago

Adrian

suppose

The latter.

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