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Collision of the plates
The current Asian crisis is one of the worst natural disasters of our time, and most of its victims are young people. Over 250,000 people got affected by the tidal waves, suffering from injuries and diseases and losing their basic needs. Americans care about the international community, and they are enthusiastic to help affected people immediately.
What kind of help is needed?
The most important thing you can do to help right now is send money. Funds are desperately needed to rebuild communities and economies in Asia that have been destroyed by the tidal waves. Things like rebuilding houses and schools, buying food, clothes and medicines, providing medical care, and also purchasing house supplies all can be accomplished through utilizing these funds.
How our team raised money to help
- Went to our parents office and collected money from their colleagues.
- Went store-to-store and collected money.
- Collected money from families and friends.
Our team collected about Nine hundred dollars ($900) and we found that people are very generous and appreciated all the hard work that we did.
How can you raise money to help the victims and their families of the Asian Tsunamis?
There are lots of ways you can raise money to help other than what we did as a team. Remember, even the smallest donation can make a huge impact! Here are some ideas to get your creative juices flowing:
- Baby-sit
- Have a bake sale
- Make a hot chocolate and/or lemonade stand
- Do housework in exchange for donations from your parents (vacuum, make beds, take out the garbage, serve your parents breakfast in bed, etc.)
- Go door-to-door and collect donations from your neighbors
- Shovel snow or rake leaves
- Collect and recycle soda cans for the 5 cent deposits
- Ask local businesses if you can set up collection jars that say "Tsunami Relief Collection"
- Organize a yard sale or a garage sale and sell your old toys
What should you do with the money once you have raised it?
Do not send cash - cash can get lost or stolen in the mail, and there's no way to keep track of it if something should happen to it. Instead, you should get a bank check and send it to someone you trust, like UNICEF, Red Cross, etc.
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Credits
Credits: Individuals
- Ms. Irivinti for teaching us how to use Dreamweaver for our web design, Photoshop and Fireworks for graphics as well as animating our logo. She taught us how to create different background (fading) effects, how to pick appropriate colors, and how to generate theme specific images, spacers etc. She also assisted us with all programming aspects of our website.
- Mrs. Cataldo, Ms. Irivinti and our parents for guiding us with research and content development. It was difficult to find information we needed in one place and their assistance helped us a lot in this regard.
- Mrs. Cataldo and Ms. Irivinti for reviewing and editing what we wrote. They told us when our writing needed more work and also taught us how to cite sources, obtain permission for images that we borrowed from other websites and also the proper way to credit them.
- Photos: USAID
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Further Reading on Helping Tsunami Victims
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| Vocabulary on Recovery : Help |
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Crisis - crucial or decisive point or situation; a turning point.
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Disaster - A grave misfortune.
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Desperately - Having lost all hope.
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Enthusiastic - Demonstrating enthusiasm.
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