I need to know how many children were orphaned by the tsunami. Can ANYONE help? :(
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A report issued by the World Bank and Indonesian authorities last month estimated that nearly 8,000 children may have lost both their parents. Tens of thousands more are thought to have lost one parent.
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Not as many as the amount of patients die everyday in hospitals due to neglect. That is 200 every day...unless it's gone up. Sorry I don't have your answer.
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You need more details.. ages, area taken from, etc.. Check out some of the missing and exploited children sites. They can help you get notices posted.. Good luck..
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How many kids are in foster homes and how many families are torn because of drug abuse (use)
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there is no word. Agree with other posters - devastation-incredible sadness, emptiness. No parent should survive their child. \n\nOur son was killed in Feb '81 (automobile accident--driving too fast and with a few beers in him - he was clocked by a cop doing 90 mph (we got the traffic ticket in the mail day after we buried him)) - and not a day goes by that we do not think of him (even though we have been blesssed with 3 other children and grandchildren).  \n\nHis birthday is coming up (coincidentally it is the same date as our youngest and they are mirror images - we called them our bookends. The 2 in the middle are blond/blue eye. The 'bookends' are dark hair, tall....) . My husband and I will be putting up his 'birthday' flower bouquet in the next few days....they stay there until the fall, then we do a Halloween theme...and so it goes on thru the year. \n\nTo top it off, we buried him on Father's DAy those many years ago.\n\nWe wonder what he would be doing today. How many children, would he still be an artist at heart?  We pray and have Faith that he is all of that and more - because God has made it so. Only our Faith and love of family and friends has carried us thru - Now we can all sit around a table (took a while) to laugh and wonder "how many pancakes" (we have pancake breakfast parties every so often just the family) he would have had. \n\nSometimes, even after alllll these years, we still buy a postcard for him, when we travel...then realize we have one to many!  \n\nThere is sadness but there is joy.  He is in a better place - we BELIEVE this because we have to!  Otherwise too hard to deal with.
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Explanation of tsunamis would be interesting. More specific the tsunami alert system of the Pacific ocean involving mainly USA and Japan.
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Here's a link that talks about basic characteristics of tsunamis.  It was easy enough to search.  Thanks for the 2 points.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsunami#Characteristics
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my son went through the same thing 3years in a row one was brother and sister .what the kids did was talk about what happened and really was there for each other.theres not much else you can do .just be there for those who need a little more help getting through it.im so sorry
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Try contacting the West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center in Palmer, Alaska. ( wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov)  Also try the University of Alaska- Anchorage. (uaa.alaska.edu) They may not have the exact info you need, but they can help you find they sources that do.  Also try the National Parks page - \nus-national-parks.net/state/ak.hm  Good Luck!
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actually, the one out of every 500,000 is just short hand for we don't have enough cases to figure out what the real statistics is for this disease. This fact was actually brought up in an class on evolution I had the other week, but yeah, don't rely on the one out 500,000 or 1 out 200,000 statistics, it's just some guestimate that sounds better then we don't know.
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Too many to count, we will never know for sure. Many thousands. Sad
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For you information, we did NOT get aid immediately, it was nearly 1 week and a half after that we got ANY acknowledgment of being alive.  I live in Northwest Florida and we still have damage.  There are people with blue roofs still after nearly 2 years (Hurricane Ivan).  We had no help from anyone, we were completely ignored!  The gym at one of the local high schools had the roof ripped off, and just recently was it replaced.  The reason we were "better off" was that we actually prepared. I feel pity for them yes, but hardly guilt, they got relief faster than we did.
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I am extremely sorry to hear your story and you have my hearfelt sympathy.  I can only imagine the deep pain of hurting you must go through everyday.  I really feel for you and I hear and support what you are saying about paying more attention to your kids and looking out for any early 'warning signs'.  I can't really advise you on anything you're asking for but I just wanted to write and wish you well, may God help you in whatever you do.
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you should read these the book "Echoes of the Soul" by Echo Bodine. Some kids remember details from previous lives. Some of the stories and examples she relates will give you goose-bumps--I mean that in a good way! Another good book is 'Indigo Children" by Lee Carroll and Jan Tober. When one of my nephews was around four, he told my sister that he wanted 'to visit the people who lived on the farm across from the church' My sister was adament he had never been to anyplace like that, let alone visited people in that location...Unless you plan have more details as to the 'other family' i.e., name and location, you  would have to search every newspaper in the world. If you know an approximate location (in the US) I would try the state or local Historical Society...they may either a record of deaths (usually by county or parish) or have an index of local newspaper obituaries. Also, keep in mind, your previous life may not have been at all recent...
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Referrals of possible child abuse and neglect, 2003 - 2,958,000\nChildren substantiated or indicated as abused or neglected, 2003 - 906,000\nChildren who died as a result of abuse or neglect, 2003 - 1,177\nChildren in foster care on September 30, 2003 -523,085\nChildren adopted from the public foster care system, 2003 - 50,362\nChildren waiting to be adopted on September 30, 2003 -124,665\nChildren living in poverty, 2004- 11,000,000\nNational Poverty Rate, 2004 13.1% *\nNational Poverty Rate for children under 18, 2004 18.4% *\nNational Poverty Rate for children ages 5-17, 2004 16.9% *\nNational Poverty Rate for children birth to age 4, 2004- 21.0% *\n\n\nHope that helps... Good luck!
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It really depends on who you are looking to help.\n\nThe children need clothing and school supplies.  Many NGO's (non-profits) are set up to keep kids in school and off the streets.  \n\nFamiles need food, clothing, etc, which can be donated again to the NGO's.\n\nCambodia also had very poor medical facilities and practice. Dentists are set up on the street and hospitals are almost non-existant.  The sick and unhealthy really need help with medical supplies, doctor and medical assistance, and many need shots to keep them health for the future.
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Projections have the world population hitting six billion sometime around the middle of next year. Beyond that, it's hard to give you an exact answer. We can tell you that there are approximately 25 more people in the world than there were when you started reading this paragraph. That's because current research indicates that about five people are born every second, while two people pass away, leaving us with a population rate of three new humans per second.\n\nhere I found this site also... this is better and this can show your 8 year old alot more!  Have fun!\n\nhttp://www.census.gov/population/www/popclockus.html