转载自lemon

Dear friends,

 

As you may know, a severe earthquake hit my home country in the afternoon of May 12th, 2008 (local time). Up to now, more than 12,000 people were killed and this number is keeping increasing... Townships were buried under landslides; schools and hospital buildings collapsed and thousands of students and patients were buried; millions of people got injured and lost their homes. The troop and emergency teams are exerting to rescue people that remain buried and injured, despite the heavy rain and disrupted traffic that hampered the rescue work greatly.

 

In case you want to donate to help the people there, some organizations that accept donations are listed below. Your generous support will assist the relief work, and help the people rebuild their lives.

 

1> American Red Cross has set up China Earthquake Fund. You can donate by phone (800-435-7669). Please indicate China Earthquake. Online donation is NOT available now.

2> Red Cross China accepts online donation using visa card. However their website is in Chinese. But you may also donate through Tsinghua Alumni (http://tsinghuafoundation.org/earthquake08/index.html). They accept PayPal and wired transfer and they will transfer the donations to Red Cross China promptly.
3> Hong Kong Red Cross also has China Earthquake Fund, and it accepted visa/mastercard donations(https://www.redcross.org.hk/donation/user_donation.asp).

 

I think 2> or 3> should be the most efficient ways but I am not sure whether they are tax exempt (probably not).

 

大家circulate出去吧。

国内现在都很难去到灾区，捐点钱也能有帮助！