How can you help in the Japan disaster?
Posted March 11, 2011 5:07 pm.
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VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – The Canadian Red Cross is responding to the quake and urging people to help.
Cellphone users on most carriers, including Rogers and Fido, can text ASIA to 30333 to donate $5 to earthquake relief efforts. 100% of all donations will go to the Canadian Red Cross Japan Earthquake/Asia-Pacific Tsunami fund.
Donations can also be made online, at your local branch office or by calling toll free 1-800-418-1111.
Rogers is also making TV Japan available on free preview on Channel 829 to all digital cable customers to help keep people up to date.
United Nations
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki Moon says the UN will do everything it can to help Japan.
“We’ll talk with our humanitarian coordinator’s office and we will… mobilize humanitarian assistance and risk reduction teams,” he says.
He says they will move into action as soon as possible.
