Posted on 09/06/2005 11:51:05 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
Americans are opening their pocketbooks so fast and so wide in the wake of Hurricane Katrina that donations have already dwarfed the first week's efforts to help victims of last year's Asian tsunami and the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
By Tuesday evening, U.S. charities had raised more than $500 million in cash and pledges — more than twice the $239 million donated in the 10 days after Sept. 11, and more than three times the $163 million raised in the nine days after the tsunami that hit countries along the Indian Ocean last Dec. 26.
The American Red Cross had raised $409 million by Tuesday afternoon — five times the $79 million that came in during the first week after the tsunami, the agency said.
The Salvation Army had raised $51 million — six times the amount the charity took in for tsunami relief and more than it collected over the last five years combined.
The outpouring of gifts eased the concerns of some charity groups that donations might not be so robust because so many Americans had given money earlier this year for tsunami relief. But the agencies remain worried that strains on the economy, including rising gas prices, will hamper the relief effort in the long run. The damage to people and places is so huge, relief workers said, that it will take this week's donations and millions of dollars more to ease the suffering along the Gulf Coast.
They said that despite a record-breaking first week, total donations for Katrina were still a fraction of the amounts raised over months and years for 9/11 and tsunami relief. Donations for 9/11 relief are now at $2.2 billion, and U.S. charities have collected nearly $1.3 billion for the tsunami so far
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Bravo to all who contributed! I hope and pray it will all go to where it can do the most good.
for the new orleans residents)orleans parish), that is about a million bucks a piece. good job.
now can they donate some wisdom too?
yeehaw, they are gonna want it to flood every year. wouldn't you if you could make a cool million out of it?
Makes sense to me. We've seen what has been done and we see what needs doing.
Have you seen a list of the Countries that have donated and the amounts donated ? I have looked but can not find one.
well, I was trying to be nice, but I was thinking the same thing.
Wisdom is usually what you get right after you needed it. ;o)
I can't believe all this money has been donated, I have been told repeatedly over the last few days from the msm, that America is racist.
I saw on the news that some Craigslist post turned into 17 tractor trailers worth of diapers, food, detergents, water, and other goods leaving Van Nuys, CA tomorrow morning.
Head to http://kcbs.dayport.com/launcher/8210/?tf=KCALvideo_player.tpl to check it out.
the story was updated tonight .....
....SELF RESPONSIBILIITY....
words that scare Jesse, Jesse Jr, Sharpton, Hillary and the rest of the dunces that are trying to spin this into a race issues.
Every color died in that storm. Most people lost their homes and businesses. Their lives never to be the same.
To have these so called leaders reduce it to race is an excuse to divert attention to their own failures.
Im sick too. Many of my friends and family are without homes tonight and no one says anything about them.
now can they donate some wisdom too
can you cash it in at stores for booze, cigs, or bread? Only way they will take it.
There is going to be updated numbers released today on this...
Help pours in for US from all over the world
India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh are among the fifty countries around the globe that have offered to the United States money and other relief assistance to help deal with the devastation left behind by hurricane Katrina in several southern states.
Tthe oil-rich nation of Kuwait said it will donate 500 million dollars in oil products and other humanitarian aid. Another Gulf Arab state, Qatar, has offered 100-million dollars in assistance.
Sri Lanka, still recovering from a massive tsunami that struck in December 2004, has urged Sri Lanka-born physicians now living in the United States to volunteer to treat hurricane victims.
Bangladesh, a country that has suffered repeated hits from devastating cyclones, has announced it plans to donate one-million dollars. Meanwhile, the European Union says US officials have requested supplies such as blankets, first aid kits, water trucks and food.
More than 50 nations have offered humanitarian aid since Katrina struck the US Gulf of Mexico coast last Monday.
Meanwhile, the United States has expressed its readiness to receive aid, with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice saying that ''no offer than can help alleviate the suffering of the people in the afflicted areas will be refused.''
In a statement she said the US expresses its ''heartfelt thanks'' for the ''warm and passionate'' response from the international community and its offers to help the victims of hurricane Katrina.
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has said that the United Nations is offering all the assistance it can provide to help the American people recover from the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina.
''The American people -- who have always been the most generous in responding to disasters in other parts of the world -- have now themselves suffered a grievous blow,'' Dr Annan said adding ''I know that I speak for the whole world in offering them my heartfelt sympathy, and any assistance that the United Nations can give.''
How can they call us racist when we have given so much and so quickly? I gave more this time than I did during 9-11. Granted, I had more to give, but still...
It's way late and I'm way tired and way sick of reading that I am a racist all day. I guess that makes me sick and tired lately.
experience is the best teacher
but here's what makes me burn
it's always teaching me the things
i do not care to learn
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