More donations pour in for tsunami victims in RI<\/p>\n
Veeramalla Anjaiah, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta<\/p>\n
More countries, and people across the globe, continued to donate
\ncash, food, clothes and medicines to the tsunami victims in Aceh
\nand North Sumatra provinces and other countries.<\/p>\n
The British public alone have raised more than US$115 million,
\nmuch higher than their government's $96 million grant, the
\nBritish Embassy in Jakarta said in a press release sent to The
\nJakarta Post on Monday.<\/p>\n
The British government will pay for the cost of transporting
\nall relief supplies raised from the money the British public have
\ndonated, the Embassy said.<\/p>\n
\"We will pay the cost of transporting relief supplies raised
\nfrom the money that the British public have very generously
\ndonated, whether from the UK or elsewhere in the world, to get to
\nthe region,\" British secretary of state for international
\ndevelopment Hilary Benn said in the press release.<\/p>\n
The first Royal Air Force (RAF) planes arrived in Banda Aceh
\non Sunday to deliver the materials to establish the UN
\noperational headquarters there. Britain has also provided two
\nhelicopters to assist with food distribution in Aceh and North
\nSumatra, the release said.<\/p>\n
The Swedish government and Swedish citizens have so far
\ndonated around $125 million -- $75 million from the government
\nand $50 million from the public -- to tsunami victims in
\nIndonesia and other countries, the Swedish Embassy said in a
\npress release sent to the Post on Monday.<\/p>\n
\"A major part of the Swedish funds will be directed toward
\nIndonesia, the country most affected by the tsunami,\" the release
\nsaid.<\/p>\n
The Swedish government said on Monday that more than 3,000
\nSwedes are still missing, mostly in Thailand. Sixty Swedish
\ncitizens have been confirmed dead.<\/p>\n
Aceh and North Sumatra were the worst-hit areas, where more
\nthan 94,000 people were killed and hundreds of thousands made
\nhomeless.<\/p>\n
France, which has pledged to donate $60 million to all the
\naffected countries, handed over $2 million to Indonesia as
\nbilateral assistance, the French Embassy said in a statement.<\/p>\n
Besides money, France has sent a civil protection team, 19
\ntons of emergency humanitarian aid, and a field hospital with 72
\ndoctors and paramedics, to Aceh and North Sumatra.<\/p>\n
French naval ships Jeanne d'Arc and Frigette Georges Leygues
\nare on their way to Indonesia, the statement said.<\/p>\n
The Algerian Embassy in Jakarta announced on Monday that
\nAlgeria has donated $2 million through the United Nations to meet
\nemergency needs of victims in Indonesia and other affected
\ncountries.<\/p>\n
Tunisia has sent two Hercules aircraft loaded with tents,
\nmedical supplies and food to Aceh and North Sumatra, the Tunisian
\nEmbassy said on Monday in a press release.<\/p>\n
Jordan has sent a field hospital along with a medical team and
\n23 tons of humanitarian aid to Indonesia, the Jordanian Embassy
\ninformed the Post through a press release on Monday.<\/p>\n
The Egyptian Embassy said in a press release that its
\ngovernment has dispatched a medical team to Indonesia and the
\nEgyptian Red Crescent Association pledged to supply medicines
\nworth of 500,000 Egyptian pounds to the affected Asian countries,
\nincluding Indonesia.<\/p>\n
Egyptian Embassy staff have donated a truck load of food and
\nclothes to Indonesian victims.<\/p>\n
The Turkish Ambassador, Mrs Feryal Cotur Onder, Mrs Stela
\nSavuica and Mrs Monica Sette Camara -- the wives of the Romanian
\nAmbassador and the Brazilian Ambassador to Indonesia respectively
\n-- took the initiative in their personal capacity to collect
\nfood, water and clothes from the members of the diplomatic
\ncommunity in Jakarta for the tsunami victims in Aceh and North
\nSumatra.<\/p>\n
These women have already donated 500 food boxes and 3,000
\nbottles to the Indonesia Red Cross.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the Slovak media has reported that Slovakia has
\npledged to donate $230,000 to the tsunami victims in Indonesia
\nand other countries.<\/p>\n
The African Union has donated US$100,000 to tsunami-affected
\ncountries, including Indonesia.<\/p>\n
Beslan, a small town in Russia that was devastated by a major
\nterrorist attack, has decided to donate one million rubles
\n(around $37,000) to tsunami victims from its global donations
\nfund, RIA Novosti Russian news agency said.<\/p>\n
Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin on Sunday doubled Canada's
\nfinancial contribution from C$40 million to C$80 million to
\ntsunami victims in Asia, the Canadian Embassy said in press
\nrelease.<\/p>",
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