# Tsunami Relief

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**Created:** [December 25, 2018, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tsunami-relief/826703 "2018-12-25T23:47:38Z")\
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Tsunami Relief–what is a good charity to help the tsunami victims?

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**Post date:** [December 26, 2018, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tsunami-relief/826703/2 "2018-12-26T01:34:01Z")

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Your national Red Cross / Red Crescent organisation is probably able to collect and transfer funds. They may have an existing fund-raising structure for the tsunami from earlier this year.

The Indonesian RC organisation - Palang Merah Indonesia - [webpage](http://www.pmi.or.id/)is in Bahasa but with a translation function into English as well and accepting donations.

I expect at this stage focus is mainly on disaster relief and temporary housing, feeding and health of the dislocated. If you have a particular interest in supporting recovery programs, like school rebuilding for example you might need to wait until those charities gear up.