More ways to help

Network For Good -
A website that lets you donate to a cause via any charity (e.g. Save the Children, Shelter Box, Convoy of Hope)

Lady Gaga has designed a special bracelet for the Japanese disaster; all proceeds will go to Japanese relief efforts.

Google has restarted its missing person finder, which proved useful during other times of natural disaster. It is currently tracking over 64600 people.

BREAKING NEWS
The Japanese government is preparing to hand out iodine tablets which reduces radiation within the body, a precaution taken for fear of radiation spreading from the Fukushima Nuclear Plant whose reactor exploded earlier today.

HELP

There are several organisations that have set up ways to help Japan already:

Global Giving -
Text "JAPAN" to 50555 to donate $10
or
donate online

Salvation Army -
Text "JAPAN or "QUAKE" to 80888 to donate $10
or
donate online

Red Cross -
Text "JAPAN" to 90999 to donate $10
or
donate online

More ways to help coming soon

Video: Eyewitness Uploads on Youtube

It is heartbraking...

March 12th, 2011

In the wake of the multiple disasters to hit Japan in the last 36 hours, I was deeply moved and decided I needed to do something. The earthquake that hit was an astounding 8.9 on the Richter scale; the most powerful earthquake to hit Japan (since record keeping started 150 years ago) and the fifth largest earthquake to shake the world. 32 people were pronounced dead soon after the earthquake, but death tolls are expected to pass 10,000. The small coastal town of Minamisanriku alone is missing 9,500 of its 17,000 residents.

The earthquake was soon followed by a tsunami that swept 6 miles (9.6 kilometers) inland. The nuclear reactor at Fukushima nuclear power plant exploded (although the explosion is speculated to be a man-made error).

Please, Japan and the Japanese people are in need of our help.