15-05-08
The death toll caused by earthquake is nearly 15,000 and looks set to rise in the disaster area- SiChuan. 10,000 people were thought to remain buried and massive landslides had buried roads to outlying villages. A lot of pupils are buried by the collapsed school buildings too.
The local authorities spoke that water, clothes, medicine, and food are mostly needed. Long haul travel is not recommended at this moment due to seriously damaged local traffic.
The Chinese Students & Scholars Association (CSSA) at Queen Mary has started calling for help and donations. The CSSA has circulated e-mails regarding the call among Chinese students and many of them have already sent their donations. It is now time to join all our forces and help those who are suffering. Recommendations on the methods of donations are in the following.
The Chinese Embassy in the UK has set up a dedicated bank account for donation to the SiChuan Earthquake. Donations can be made through money transfer or cheques. Details of the donation including account details can be found on the Chinese Embassy’s website
http://uk.china-embassy.org/eng/sghd/t434619.htm
Alternatively the British Red Cross has also started a program to appeal for help on the SiChuan Earthquake since yesterday. Donations can be made online through the British Red Cross website at http://www.redcross.org.uk/news.asp?id=81083
To help children and orphanages in the disaster area, along with Chinese Embassy, Mother Bridge of Love (MBL) is also making an urgent appeal to all to donate money for the disaster relief, targeting at helping the SUFFERING CHILDREN SPECIFICALLY. MBL thank for friends who called, donated money and shared their concerns. They are calling for more people to join the rescue action.
Last year, MBL donated money to the flood-hit area in Sichuan directly. They will guarantee that 100% of the donation will be sent to Sichuan again to urgently save the life of Children. Their focus will be helping children to recover from physical and physiological damage. A website dedicated to the SiChuan Earthquake has been also set up by MBL at http://sichuanearthquake.org.uk/
To make a donation to help the MBL at this moment; the efficient way is to support their Edinburgh Marathon Runners. Please go to website: www.justgiving.com/rbsjames to give your contributions. Any other form of support you could provide please contact MBL through headoffice@motherbridge.org 020 70340686
If you are having any suggestions please contact the CSSA at qmcn.info@googlemail.com . The CSSA has a Chinese language forum at www. qmcn.org/bbs and the earthquake thread is http://www.qmcn.org/bbs/read.php?tid=4228
Yours Sincerely,
CSSA-QM
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