Comparisons between the American fund raising results for Haitian earthquake relief and the efforts after Hurricane Katrina and the Southeast Asian tsunami are inevitable. Here are the current results as recorded on this site.
Indonesia Opens Tsunami Museum
Mar 3rd, 2009
More than 700 families are still living in barracks in Aceh, which was home to two-thirds of the victims, and some were disappointed to see millions of dollars being spent on a monument.
Tsunami Relief Redirect
Aug 20th, 2008
Culture of Giving
May 12th, 2006
BBC
Philanthropy is so well established it has spawned its own academic discipline.
New York University has a department of philanthropy. There is also the Chronicle of Philanthropy.
I have even attended a philanthropy workshop in the bowels of Congress, where rich Americans learned how to give their money away and how to make sure it was spent [...]
Habitat for Humanity’s Tsunami Recovery Overview
Jan 25th, 2006
Habitat for Humanity
In the year since the Indian Ocean tsunami, Habitat for Humanity has assisted an estimated 6,000 households in India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Thailand to gain permanent housing. Over the next 24 months, Habitat for Humanity plans to provide direct housing assistance to as many as 20,000 families, and to assist 10,000 to [...]
Tsunami Anniversary
Dec 26th, 2005
It’s one year since the tsunami ravaged the coasts of South Asia. If you’d like to read about the initial relief effort, it’s fairly well documented in my blog. I originated the Stingy List, a PDF file listing the billion plus dollars donated to tsunami relief by Americans, individuals, businesses and groups.
The Financial Times had [...]
Time’s Person of the Year
Dec 18th, 2005
Poliblog points out this story. Time picks three very rich people as their person[s] of the year. For their giving, of course.
I agree with him that there were a number of better choices.
I once wrote that while it was laudable what Princess Diana did in her chairitable endeavours, she could afford to. Bill and Melinda [...]
Tsunami: Donations and Status
Aug 18th, 2005
I’m no longer working on the Stingy List, but I did want to point out that tsunami charity continues worldwide.Gulf TimesBRITISH Airways together with Ramada Hotel and Doha Golf Club has raised QR180,000 for Southeast Asia’s tsunami-stricken children. The money was raised at an auction gala dinner organised during a celebrity amateur golf tournament, with [...]
Tsunami: Six Months and Building
Jul 7th, 2005
I’ve completed a more detailed look at the state of tsunami aid on the six month anniversary of the disaster. That page is called Tsunami Aid. It’s not meant to be comprehensive, just representative of the work that’s been done and that to be done. It covers the world’s response, not just Americas. If you [...]
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