Earthquake in Chile Leaves Devastation

Tuesday March 02, 2010
How you can respond to Chile's earthquake

Organizations providing direct relief
to the people of Chile:

Americares:
88 Hamilton Avenue
Stamford, CT 06902, USA
info@americares.org
Direct: 1-203-658-9500
Toll Free: 1-800-486-HELP (4357)

AmeriCares relief efforts are focused on providing medical aid including antibiotics, infection control items and surgical equipment. With regard to health care, the most serious problems have occurred in southern Chile, where six hospitals collapsed and two others were damaged severely and left unable to function.
Americares is currently sending a rapid response team to help provide disaster relief in Chile. Medicines, medical supplies and other humanitarian aid are being readied for immediate shipment. Since 1989, AmeriCares has delivered over $16 million in medical and humanitarian donations to Chile.
Web Address: http://www.americares.org/newsroom/news/help-chile-earthquake-quake-relief-aid.html

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)
By phone:
Call our toll-free number at 1-888-392-0392
24 hours a day, 7 days a week
By mail:
Doctors Without Borders USA
PO Box 5030
Hagerstown, MD 21741
Webb Address: http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/aboutus/?ref=main-menu
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international medical humanitarian organization created by doctors and journalists in France in 1971.

(MSF)has sent the first members of an exploratory team and workers to Santiago in order to assess the needs of victims. MSF is already in contact with Chilean government authorities to coordinate the relief effort.

Oxfam International
Chair Janet McKinley
Director Raymond Offenheiser
226 Causeway Street , 5th Floor
Boston, Massachusetts 02114-2206
Phone: 617 482 1211 (Toll-free 1-800-77-OXFAM)
Email: info@oxfamamerica.org
Oxfam International is an international group of independent non-governmental organizations dedicated to fighting poverty and related injustice around the world. The Oxfams work together internationally to achieve greater impact by their collective efforts.
A team of water engineers and logisticians from Colombia and senior humanitarian staff has been sent to Chili from its center in Mexico.
Web Address: http://www.oxfam.org/en/pressroom

Save the Children
For Donor Services Please call toll-free 1-800-728-3843
Save the Children U.S. Headquarters:
54 Wilton Road
Westport, CT 06880
(203) 221-4030 (8:00AM - 5:00PM EDT)
(800) 728-3843 (8:00AM - 5:00PM EDT)
E-mail: twebster@savechildren.org

2000 L Street NW, Suite 500
Washington, DC 20036
202-640-6600 (8:00AM - 5:00PM EDT)

The mission is to create lasting, positive change in the lives of children in need in the U.S. and around the world. The priorities are to ensure that children in need grow up protected and safe, educated, healthy and well-nourished, and able to thrive in economically secure households.
Currently an emergency assessment team has been sent to Chile.
Webb Address: http://www.savethechildren.org/emergencies/latin-america-caribbean/chile/earthquake-10/

World Vision
World Vision
P.O. Box 9716, Dept. W
Federal Way, WA 98063-9716
Toll free: 888-511-6548
E-mail: info@worldvision.org
World Vision is a Christian humanitarian charity organization dedicated to working with children, families, and their communities worldwide to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice.
We serve close to 100 million people in nearly 100 countries around the world. World Vision serves all people, regardless of religion, race, ethnicity, or gender.
Currently teams are distributing hundreds of blankets and some water containers to Santiago's earthquake survivors, preparing to start an extensive response in the hardest-hit areas south of the capital. World Vision flew a team of six relief and logistics experts from Santiago to Concepcion to assess the severity of the damage. The team will also open a second operations center in the south to coordinate with World Vision's relief teams in Santiago.
Web address: http://wvi.org/wvi/wviweb.nsf

Please continue to check our Web site in the coming days
for updated information about organizations providing direct relief
to the people of Chile.  

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