Help Needed in Asia

Hoc Poeng on Thursday, May 15, 2008 3:35AM

Dear Ningin Community,

In the past week, Asia has endured two massive natural disasters, a cyclone in Myanmar and a magnitude 7.9 earthquake in China’s central Sichuan province. Combined, these two events leave possibly 100,000+ people dead and hundreds of thousands more homeless, hungry, and suffering.

While the majority of the news and content on Ningin is entertainment focus, allow me to interrupt you from that and ask for your help. You see, after reading about the NYTimes article about a school collapse in the Chinese city of Duijiangyan killing 900 school children and watching videos of terrified kids huddling under tables, I was overcame with unbearable sadness.

It’s very easy to get absorbed in our own lives, not noticing the rest of the world. However, the scale and depth of the tragedy and lost of life suffered is just too devastating for me not to do something.

Both Mixr Media (parent company of Ningin) and I personally will be making donations to the Red Cross and MercyCorps. These are two charities with tremendous track record for providing aid. It is my wish that you all do the same with whatever you can spare.

Red Cross – Earthquake

Red Cross – Cyclone

MercyCorps – Earthquake

MercyCorps – Cyclone

Thank you for your help.

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Updated Nationwide Casualties:

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Over 50,000 lives lost (estimated) and 22,069 of them have been confirmed; 14,000 buried, 60,000+ trapped, 166,045 injured. Thousands of victims are students under 17.

http://news.sina.com.cn/pc/2008-05-13/326/651.html

Donations:

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We have following VERIFIED options to donate for the earthquake relief:

1. China Red Cross 中国红十字总会 (Chinese Site)

http://www.redcross.org.cn

If connection fails, please try

http://202.108.59.10/wsjz/wsjz.asp

Visa card acceptable.

中国红十字会总会救灾专用账号和热线是：

开户单位：中国红十字会总会。

人民币开户行：中国工商银行北京分行东四南支行。

人民币账号：0200001009014413252。

外币开户行：中信银行酒仙桥支行。

外币账号：7112111482600000209。

热线电话：(8610)65139999。

2. Chinese Consulate in San Francisco, please write a check and put “5.12 Sichuan earthquake donation” as the memo.

Mailing Address:

Consul Yan Li

Education Office,

The Consulate General of the People’s Republic of China,

1450 Laguna street, San Fransisco, CA 94115.

The consulate will forward your donation to China Red Cross

3. Chinese Consulate in Houston

Acceptable：check/money order/cashier’s check

Payable to：Chinese Consulate General in Houston

Memo: Earthquake donation, 捐款救灾

Address：811 Holman Street, Houston, TX 77002

Tel：(713)522-0438

4. Chinese Consulate in New York

http://www.nyconsulate.prchina.org/chn/ttxw/t434163.htm (Chinese)

http://www.nyconsulate.prchina.org/eng/xw/t434656.htm (English)

5. Chinese Embassy in UK

http://uk.china-embassy.org/chn/zyxw/t434143.htm (Chinese)

http://uk.china-embassy.org/eng/sghd/t434204.htm (English)

6. Chinese Embassy in Australia

http://au.china-embassy.org/eng/sgjs/sghd/t434408.htm (English)

Your ENTIRE contribution is guaranteed to go to the earthquake relief directly if you choose above options. However, for convenience, if you prefer to pay online, you can try the following. Administrative or transactional fee may apply.

Other options:

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* International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) 国际红十字会 (English, Francais and Espanol)

http://www.ifrc.org/

Credit card acceptable. Click on “how to help”–>“online donations” –> “China Earthquake”

* Hongkong Red Cross 香港红十字会 (English and Chinese)

http://www.redcross.org.hk

Visa and Master card acceptable. Donation amount in HK dollars.

* American Red Cross 美国红十字会（English）

https://american.redcross.org/site/Donation2?df_id=3198&3198.donation=form1

Major rredit cards acceptable.

* Canadian Red Cross 加拿大红十字会 (English, Francais)

https://www.paypaq.com/redcross/new/

Credit Card or Interac Online Payment Service

* British Red Cross

http://www.redcross.org.uk

Donation in GBP only and major credit cards acceptable.

* Mercy Corps

http://www.mercycorps.org/chinaearthquake/ (English)

Major credit card acceptable. US dollars only.

* Silicon Valley Tsinghua Network (SVTN) 硅谷清华联网 (English Site)

http://tsinghuafoundation.org/earthquake08/index.html

(1). Donate by wire transfer:

Bank name: Washington Mutual

Payee title: SVTN (special fund for earthquake relief)

Routing #: 322271627

Acct #: 3170415745

Address: 690 RIVER OAKS PKWY, SAN JOSE, CA 95134-1905

(2). Donate by check:

SVTN

Attn: China Earthquake Relief

P. O. Box 1295, Fremont, CA 94538-0129

Please make your check payable to SVTN and indicate “China Earthquake Relief” in the memo area.

(3). Donate by Paypal:

Please pay to:

Pay to China Earthquake Relief .

* Company Matching Program (applicable to some US companies)

You can refer to a topic at the discussion board on this donation option.

大部分美国公司都有Matching Gift Program for慈善捐款，通常是1：1或更多。也就是说，你捐100，公司也捐100。

请各位在捐款中国红十字会之前跟公司人事部联系，看接受捐款部门是否符合本公司的要求。如果中国的机构不合要求，可以等美国红十字会开始这项募捐，美国红十字会肯定符合要求。

Currently, 6 known companies are willing to match your donation to SVTN : Google, Yahoo, Spansion, Qualcomm, eBay, HP.

It is required to add Silicon Valley Tsinghua Network into your company’s database for matching purpose. The process to add SVTN into your company’s database might take 2 day to 2 months. But you could make your donation today and send the matching request to your company HR department.

Also, please remember, company matching program do not send check for individual donation. They will collect all employee donations in certain period. Then, the company will send us a check. Typically, they send one check per quarter. We will send our company matching money to China Red Cross.

Please visit http://www.tsinghuafoundation.org for more info.

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