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Update: More ways to help tsunami and earthquake victims in Japan
photo by DigitalGlobe-Imagery (Flickr CC)
In addition to Google Person Finder’s 2011 Japan Earthquake service and ShelterBox’s aid program for victims, several other organizations are mobilizing to help those affected by the recent tsunami and earthquake in northern Japan. Japanese authorities have upgraded the quake to a 9.0 on the Richter scale.
I have been keeping up to date on the situation via the Guardian’s live news blog, where it was posted that Save the Children has set up a fund for Japan’s earthquake/tsunami victims. You can access Save the Children’s UK earthquake/tsunami site here and the US version here.
Yahoo News has also provided a list of other organizations working on the relief effort in Japan.
Click on any of the names below to make a donation:
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Two people being sent from Map Action in Britain to Japan tonight to begin mapping the Tsunami affected areas and produce real time maps to help the rescue and relief effort.
They are a fun bunch of geographers who volunteer for free for each mission and their support costs are £8k per deployment.
We will be updating their See The Difference project page with news as we have it: http://www.seethedifference.org/charities/mapaction/emergency-deployment-in-disaster-zones
“People are surviving on little food and water. Things are simply not coming,” said Hajime Sato, a government official.
from AP article:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ap_on_bi_ge/as_japan_earthquake