Quake disaster
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Jesus get of Frances back, dont belevie what CNN tell you. I think the first donationa are just the begining. Also looks like Spain are reaching out after the world helped after Madrid. Lets take what good we can from this..
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Spain on Wednesday announced the largest single contribution - $68 million.
Japan has pledged rice and $30 million in emergency aid and sent disaster relief and medical teams to Thailand and the Maldives.
Britain pledged $28.9 million for the relief effort.
"Yesterday we completed the process of purchasing 20,000 tarpaulins, 4,500 cooking sets, 40,000 sleeping mats that we are going to get to the region as soon as we can," said Britain's secretary for international development, Hilary Benn.
The British-based relief agency Oxfam raised $1.2 million in three days from private donors.
Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said Britain also sent a planeload of bottled water to the Maldives archipelago, where 37 of the islands have no drinking water.
France announced $20.5 million in aid Wednesday and said it was sending 60 tons of aid to Sri Lanka, Indonesia and the Maldives.
Australia said Wednesday it would give another $19.5 million in aid, increasing its total pledge to $27.6 million. Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said the government could give more if necessary.
"It's going to be a very expensive exercise for Australia but it's also the fact of life that we have very great responsibilities," Downer said. "We should, when it comes to a situation like this, be prepared to use some of our prosperity to help some of our fellow human beings."
Denmark said it will head a Nordic-British-Dutch effort to establish a U.N. disaster coordination center on Indonesia's Sumatra island, which was closest to the epicenter of the earthquake and devastated by tsunami waves. Denmark donated $15.5 million toward that effort. The Czech government said it would send a military plane with more than 10 tons of water and medicines to Phuket on Thursday and return with stranded Czech tourists. Some 263 Czechs remained unaccounted for in the region Wednesday
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