How To Help Earthquake-Tsunami Survivors

An injured Acehnese girl who also lost her entire family when a tsunami hit the region last week, wipes her face as she takes a rest at a hospital in Banda Aceh, Aceh province, Indonesia. (AP/Binsar Bakkara)

Groups Aiding Disaster Survivors

• American Friends Service Committee
  
• American Jewish World Services
  
• American Red Cross
  
• Care
  
• Catholic Relief Services
  
• Doctors Without Borders
  
• International Medical Corps
  
• International Orthodox Christian Charties
  
• World Vision
  

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One of the long term needs of the survivors is shelter.

The philosophy guiding many groups involved in housing
relief is that homes are the foundation for restoring
a destroyed community.

The Architecture for Humanity, a five year-old nonprofit
organization with members in over 100 countries is one
such group.

Here is a Blog by Andy Carvin, basically a Tsunami information clearinghouse