Hi everyone,
Yeah... I am Imelda Gani, buat yang blon kenalan, salam kenal.
Thanks buat FESIM to start the ball rolling. Anyway, aku mo nanya dunk... Bagaimana dengan penyalurannya? Currently, I am working together with other Indonesians from mahasiswa2 dari NTU, NUS, SMU, Muslim Society juga yang sedang mulai ngumpulin dana. We will try to consolidate by 31 December 2004 and our last attempt *tentatively* would be opening a booth during New Year's eve celebration at the Embassy.
Qta lagi mikirin gimana cara consolidate all the funds. Currently, qta juga lagi berusaha mengontek orang2 yang bisa qta 'percaya' di indo yang mengenal yayasan2 di mana qta bisa coordinate the fund. If you guys wanna join us, please do contact me at my mobile: 9749 0563.
I, personally, would encourage each of you to participate!!!
Thanks a lot guys! Wishing all of you Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year.
-Imelda-
iyus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
iyus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Pada kenal Imelda Gani? Well... barusan saja beliau menyampaikan
concernnya masalah korban tsunami di indo. Pada tau dong kalo ada
bencana ini? kalo belon silakan disimak di
http://www.channelnewsasia.com. Nah beliau mengajak kita semua buat
melakukan sesuatu neh buat korban korban di sana. Gua rasa ini hal
yang harus kita lakukan seh. Saatnya menatap dunia luar and do
something. I guess kelompok minat di IGCF pun bisa melakukan sesuatu
tentang ini kan? atau mungkin dari masing masing ISCF. Atau mungkin sg
bisa organize buat ini? I know we all have our own internal problem.
Tapi let's do something, biar visi kita bukan jadi sekedar visi...
Dibawah ini e mail nya Gani... silakan disimak.. beliau tau lebih
banyak detailnya..
Dear all,
Buat yang ngikutin berita, pasti tau donk kemaren ada Tsunami yang
menyerang Indo, the Maldives, India and Thailand. Buat di Indo, yang
kena paling parah adalah Aceh. To date, there have been 4,500 victims
from Indonesia and our President declares 3 days of mourning for the
victims. For futher information, kindly access to
http://www.channelnewsasia.com.
I am not sure whether ISCF or IGCF will open any monetary donations
for them. However, I guess we are obliged to pray for the family and
relatives of the victims. Hope they are given strength from God to
face this issue. I cannot say much but I just wish we can help them in
one way or another, either monetary or non-monetary.
Thanks for your attention and for your easy reference, one of the news
is as follow:
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia: The full horror of the destruction caused by
the largest earthquake in 40 years across swathes of Asia emerged as
the death toll soared over 17,000 and hopes faded for many thousands
still missing.
A relief and rescue operation covering a vast area was underway, with
hundreds of bloated and bloodied bodies piling up in makeshift morgues
at coastal cities, towns and tourist resorts across south and
Southeast Asia.
The trail of devastation came after an earthquake erupted off
Indonesia on Sunday, triggering giant tidal waves which battered Sri
Lanka, India, Thailand, Indonesia, the Maldives, Myanmar and Malaysia.
Indian towns began mass funerals, burying and burning some of the
country's more than 6,200 dead while western holidaymakers desperately
sought news of loved ones swept away in surging waters at tropical
palm-fringed resorts.
The situation in India's Andaman Islands, close to the epicenter of
the earthquake, was rapidly emerging as one of the worst hit areas,
with 3,000 dead in the archipelago.
"At a very conservative estimate I would say that 3,000 people are
dead and as many missing," said S.B. Deol, inspector general of
police, told NDTV news.
The United Nations rushed disaster teams to south and southeast Asia,
saying hundreds of thousands of people in coastal areas were at risk,
with livelihoods from fishing and farming wiped out and disease
threatening to wreak more havoc.
Sunday's quake, the fourth largest recorded since 1900 and measuring
9.0 on the Richter scale, occurred after a rupture on the Indian Ocean
seabed caused by the violent grinding of two tectonic plates.
Walls of water up to 10 metres high were reported around Asia, roaring
ashore with unstoppable speed, sweeping people off beaches, flattening
hotels and homes, uprooting trees and overturning cars.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said
the stricken countries needed portable sanitation facilities, medical
supplies, tents and helicopters to evacuate people.
India and Sri Lanka were mourning tolls of between 6,200 and 5,800
respectively, while the number of dead in Indonesia was given as 4,448
and rising as rescue teams moved into Aceh province on Sumatra island,
the closest populated region to the quake's epicentre.
A further 461 deaths were reported in Thailand, 44 in Malaysia and 32
in the Maldives, with Bangladesh and Myanmar recording a total of
three fatalities.
And another 300 people were feared missing on the picturesque Thai
island of Phi Phi, famed around the world as the setting for Hollywood
blockbuster 'The Beach'.
At dawn Monday, hundreds of awestruck residents of Indonesia's Aceh
province on Sumatra were still trying to comprehend the tidal waves
that engulfed their villages, carrying away homes and relatives.
"People told me it was as if God had unleashed his anger on the
people," said Haji Ali, a resident in Patong Labu, a small settlement
close to the north Aceh town of Bireuen.
An AFP reporter among the first to reach the province's main city
Banda Aceh, which has been in blackout since the quake struck,
described a scene of ruin and death, with hundreds of bodies and
pulverised buildings.
Bloodied corpses covered by plastic sheets lay rotting on the ground
at an Indonesian Red Cross office in Lambaro on the northern outskirts
of the city. Police said there were 500 bodies at the centre.
Health ministry officials in Jakarta said at least 3,000 of
Indonesia's total dead were from the city, while Wawan Setiawan of the
social welfare ministry's disaster team said the toll in the city
alone could be up to 5,000.
He said bodies were piling up across the region. Mosques were being
used to collect the dead as hospital morgues spilled over.
Television pictures showed rows of dead infants swaddled in
traditional cloths, lying on hospital floors as relatives wept
outside.
In Thailand, an estimated one-third of the dead were foreign tourists,
and the disaster also claimed the life of one of the kingdom's royal
family, with a grandson of King Bhumibol Adulyadej confirmed dead.
Survivors in Thailand told harrowing stories of seeing loved ones
washed away in front of their eyes.
The nation's top beach attractions were among the worst-hit as monster
waves swept scores of people out to sea, drowned snorkellers, sank
boats and shattered buildings along the coast.
At Phuket International Hospital patients like 44-year-old Swedish
tourist Gerdh Vall received treatment as they tearfully awaited news
of missing relatives and friends.
"My husband and 14-year-old daughter are missing since we were swept
off the second floor of our hotel on Phi Phi island," she said,
clutching the arm of her teenage son Johannes.
At the small Tatong hospital in Phuket, health workers struggled to
run a makeshift morgue in the car park. More than 30 bodies, ranging
from small children to the elderly, lay on the ground.
About one third were tourists, almost all still in their swimwear.
Dozens of stunned townspeople and tourists as well as the walking
wounded wandered among the swollen bodies, seeking a familiar face.
"We have had 68 bodies here since this began this morning but now even
more are coming" said a nurse in charge of documenting the bodies as
another ten corpses arrived in the back of pickup trucks and
ambulances.
Governments from France to Australia and Russia to the United States
pledged aid and assistance, despatched aircraft, doctors and
specialists to the worst-hit areas.
In Geneva, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent
Societies appealed for 7.5 million Swiss francs (4.8 million euros,
6.6 million dollars) to help an estimated 500,000 survivors.
In Malaysia, 44 people, including many elderly and children, were
drowned and many others were missing after tidal waves hit the resort
islands of Penang and Langkawi and the northwestern coast.
On the Indian Ocean tourist paradise of the Maldives, a British
tourist and 31 other people died after tidal waves lashed the
archipelago, officials said.
Three US citizens and a New Zealand woman were confirmed among the
dead across the region. Australia said six of its nationals were
missing. - AFP
"I am nothing, but I have Him who is everything"
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Nanyang Technological University
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