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My brother's in Bangkok at the moment so he's unaffected, but he's working for various charities over there so he will probably be helping people soon. I volunteer at the Oxfam Community Aid Abroad offices here and just did eight hours non-stop at the call centre getting donations for the Earthquake/Tsunami disaster, I'm amazed at the generosity out there. The average donation is $100 or so, with a lot of $1,000 donations and one $10,000 donation from a single person. Others offered clothes and food, some said they were medical professionals prepared to go there to help, and one nice old lady offered the spare rooms in her Sydney house for anyone who needed somewhere to stay. I didn't want to tell her the expense to take three people from Sri Lanka to Sydney for a few nights would be overwhelming but in her case it was the thought that counted, but in most cases it's not the thought that counts, it really is the raw money.
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