If anyone has the time, please volunteer to blog for SEA-EAT blog. This local initiative, by people from the affected areas is a tremendous source of links, news and charities, as well as emergency phone numbers and ways people who want to volunteer to help in the areas can contact the relevant authorities. It's a valuable and very worthwhile service. You can see how it all came about, by reading the article at The Guardian.

They need blog volunteers to help the rescue groups by posting relevant information. (You'll have to process tons of e-mail.)

Interested people should contact Rohit Gupta(fadereu@gmail.com), Dina Mehta (explore@vsnl.com) or Peter Griffin (zigzackly@gmail.com) as soon as possible!

Family link

To help those separated restore contact, the International Red Cross has established new Family Links pages for India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Thailand.

Please help wherever you are. Anything you can do, no matter how small it may seem will help. I urge you to get out in your local area and make contact with places like the Red Cross. Even a few hours collecting money, answering phones, giving out information, donating money, expertise or whatever you can. It may not seem like very much, but a groundswell of support at grassroots level is really needed and any donation of money, time, expertise will help out.



This is the front page of today's Adelaide Advertiser. I know some of my family and friends back home read this. Please think about donating time to help out. This is a tragedy that crosses all boundaries of politics, religion, race etc. It's about humans helping out each other.

In Sweden, New Year's Day has been declared a national day of mourning. There are emergency numbers and links to donate on that link from The Local. For those in Sweden who were planning parties and setting out to Systemet or buying fireworks, please send that money instead to help out the relief effort.