Sri Lankan students collecting donations for aid to tsunami-devastated homeland
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Several students from Sri Lanka here in Latvia have begun to collect donations to send to their devastated country, LETA was informed by the Sri Lankan Honorary Consul in Latvia Arnis Ancupans.
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Among the legions of traumatized Sri Lankan fishermen whose lives were ravaged by the tsunami are many who are not sure they can go back to the simple lives they and their families once led by the sea.
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New Zealand Cricket (NZC) hopes to donate more than one million New Zealand (698,000 US) dollars to tsunami relief from the World XI series starting here as Sri Lanka's stars appealed for more assistance for their stricken country.
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Local outlets are available for people looking to donate money to the relief efforts taking place in Indonesia following a Sunday earthquake and tsunami that has claimed the lives of more than 100,000 people.
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The Asian Development Bank (ADB) said on  Friday it had made available up to $325 million in emergency  lending for tsunami relief efforts in Indonesia, Sri Lanka and  Maldives. The Manila-based lending institution said about $175  million could be diverted from existing projects in the three  countries, while up to $150 million in new low-cost loans could  be drawn.
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Cricket fans have bought almost 20,000 tickets in the first few hours of sales for next week's fund-raising match to aid victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami.
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A Welsh emergency aid worker co-ordinating help in Sri Lanka has talked of how a generation of children has been "wiped out" and others face disease and deprivation.
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People wanting to help victims of the tsunami may do so through the American Red Cross. The Wayne County Chapter has received several monetary donations already, said Chuck Waller, the director.
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Charities are using the Internet to bring in donations quickly, as bloggers bring eyewitness accounts from the disaster area. In the aftermath of the devastating South-East Asian tsunami, the Web has been
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Distraught Sri Lankans have wandered through debris-strewn streets, desperately looking for any sign of relatives swept away by a deadly tsunami that has killed at least 10,200 people in the country.
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Aid from the UK is already helping in countries worst hit by the tsunami.
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Colombo, Dec 27 (UNI) The toll in the devastating Tsunami that swept across Sri Lanka rose to 11,500 today while about eight lakh people were displaced.
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People around the world pitched in on Wednesday to help the millions left homeless and destitute by the Indian Ocean tsunamis, donating money, clothes, blood and even air miles to ferry doctors to the disaster ...
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With an image of the Christian &quot;Mother Mary&quot; attached to debris, a local resident salvages a bicycle from the devastation to his fishing village by the weekend&#39;s massive tsunami, Wednesday, Dec. 29, in the eastern coastal town of Batticaloa, Sri Lanka.
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Students at May Watts Elementary School held an emergency meeting this week to discuss something that's been tugging at them since winter break: how to raise funds for tsunami victims.
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Representatives of Sri Lanka's government and Tamil Tigers rebels, mortal enemies, are working together to help tsunami victims.
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Ethnic Tamils living in Britain are being pressured into donating money to support Tiger rebels in their native Sri Lanka, facing harassment if they refuse.