MRCS needs You

The Malaysian Red Crescent Society will be emphasising on its international relief efforts, apart from helping tsunami victims at home. In particular, they will be providing aid in Acheh, which is bearing the brunt of this horrific disaster.

They have already sent a team to Acheh, and is expected to send another soon. This is where your help is most needed. Our heart goes out to those affected in Perlis, Penang and Kedah, but their welfare is pretty much well taken of by government agencies and relief operations here. But Acheh -- I trust you've seen the pictures on TV. I have no words to describe the sheer magnitude of the tragedy.

MRCS needs volunteers, especially doctors, nurses, psychiatrists, psychologists, midwives, and engineers. If you can't offer services, send donations in kind. They need plastic sheets, tents, blankets, jerry cans, cooking utensils, medicines and if you can, water filtration systems. They also need medicines for water-borne diseases, which I don't have the list for right now. If you have means or contacts for transport in Sumatra, or to the island (cargo ships, planes whatever!!), please lend a helping hand. Malaysia Airlines have offered free flights for relief workers, but any other large scale transport would definitely be a help.

There would be a press conference tomorrow, and there should be more details then. This has been called the "greatest humanitarian crisis in history". You, the living and the able, should be a part of it.





mokciknab muttered at 9:19 pm ~ ~