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...guide: WHAT KIND OF HELP IS NEEDED NOW? While immediate relief needs are being addressed, long-term development work - rebuilding schools, making microloans to rejuvenate businesses, providing trauma counseling - has barely begun. Large international charities with development projects in places like India, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Indonesia include Oxfam, care, Save the Children and World Vision. "Emergency aid is vital, but we can't just rebuild the poverty that was there before," says Oxfam spokesman Brendan Cox. "We have to aim for reconstruction plus." HOW DO I PICK A CHARITY? If you already support a charity that works...
WHAT KIND OF HELP IS NEEDED NOW? While immediate relief needs are being addressed, long-term development work--rebuilding schools, making microloans to rejuvenate businesses, providing trauma counseling--has barely begun. Large international charities with development projects in places like India, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Indonesia include Oxfam, CARE, Save the Children, World Vision and the International Rescue Committee. "Emergency relief is sexy, but people need sewers and roads and health clinics," says Daniel Borochoff, president of the American Institute of Philanthropy...
...million to relief charities as well as in-kind support to Electriciens sans Frontières, which is sending 15 electricians and more than 50 diesel-fueled generators to help restore power in Sumatra and Sri Lanka. Aid groups have been heartened by the outpouring of corporate generosity. Oxfam International's British chapter has been so overwhelmed by donations that it's still counting the money. "The response this time from corporations has been much larger than usual," says spokeswoman Anna Mitchell. But with the tsunami-torn countries facing a long, slow, painful recovery, Oxfam and other groups hope this...
Harvard released a list of 26 charities—from the American Red Cross to Doctors Without Borders to Oxfam America—for which it would match donations and established a website yesterday to coordinate the effort...
...Oxfam Oxfam, which is concentrating its efforts in the worst hit areas, has flown 27 tons of emergency equipment to Sri Lanka and Indonesia and is distributing food and shelter supplies from its base in Trincomalee, Sri Lanka...