Red Cross sets up Web site for tsunami victim contact

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GENEVA (Reuters): A Red Cross Web site to aid contact between survivors of the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster and their families in the region and across the world went into service on Wednesday.

The Swiss-based International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said its site www.familylinks.icrc.org was alreadygetting an active response and registrations were building up fast as its existence became known.

"It is important that both families at home and people in the tsunami region who have survived get to know about it quickly," ICRC spokesman Florian Westphal told Reuters.

The site has special sections for the four worst-affected countries -- Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Thailand and India -- where the overwhelming majority of the nearly 70,000 deaths so far have been reported.

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[Nothing Without Hope]

1. News like this should be part of home page

There should be an organized area where donation sites, victim news, aid updates, and other info relevant to the disaster can be posted and viewed. Not just a forum, because there information can disappear quickly.

Thank you for posting this.

[Just Me]

2. ICRC will provide the fastest, direct & needed aid.

I contributed $100 before they set up this site.

I would strongly urge cash donations to the ICRC ASAP.

[Brundle_Fly]

3. so did apple

www.apple.com

[MARALE]

4. This is a good site for donations as well

They are famous for helpingthe pooest of the poor in that area. They have a list for donations they need right away...
http://www.sarvodaya.org/