Pray For Japan
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The radiation leakage, the cold weather- rain and snow.
earthquake, tsunami,nuclear plant crisis (4 reactors), and also sea pollution from the damaged ships cause by the tsunami.
lets pray for them
and if possible donate what we can. I told my friend to do donation but someone told me most of the donation money dont go to the people so he dont donate. How to convince them?
a) Cash Donations
Donors may make a cash donation at the Singapore Red Cross at 15 Penang Lane (5 mins from Dhoby Gaut MRT Station) during these opening hours:
• Mondays to Fridays 9.30am to 9pm
• Saturdays, Sundays and Public Holidays 9.30am to 6pmb) Cheque Donations
Cheque donations to be made payable to the “Singapore Red Cross Society” and sent to the Singapore Red Cross at 15 Penang Lane, Singapore 238486.. Please indicate at the back of the cheque the following:
• Japan Disaster 2011
• Name of donor/organization
• Contact numbers
• Addressc) SMS Mobile Giving
Donors may make their donation via sms by sending a text message "REDCROSS" to 75772. For every sms, S$50 will be donated to the “Japan Disaster 2011” appeal fund.d) OCBC donation channels
Donors may make their donations via OCBC multiple banking channels. These include the ATM, Internet Banking, Mobile Banking, Phone Banking, PLUS! Internet Banking and PLUS! Phone Banking. These channels will be available to all customers from Tuesday, 15 March, 9am onwards to 13 April 2011. Please refer to Annex 1 for the user guide.e) DBS donation channels
Donors may make their donations via DBS’s ATM and Internet Banking from Tuesday, 15 March from 10pm onwards. Please refer to their website at www.dbs.com.sg for information.f) UOB donation channels
Donors may also make their donations via UOB’s Personal Internet Banking with effect from Wednesday, 16 March. For details on how to donate, please refer to their website at www.uob.com.sg.http://www.sg.emb-japan.go.jp/ryoji_THEQ_redcross.htm
- Individuals and private companies can also directly remit their donations by choice in support of:
- Disaster victims
Name of Bank: Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
Name of Branch: Ginza
Account No. : 8047670 (Ordinary Account)
Swift Code: SMBC JP JT
Payee Name: The Japanese Red Cross Society
Payee Address: 1-1-3 Shiba-Daimon Minato-ku, Tokyo JAPAN
*If you need a receipt, please make a remark on the payment slip. - The Japanese Red Cross Society for their rescue activities in this disaster
Name of Bank: Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
Name of Branch: Ginza
Account No. : 8047705 (Ordinary Account)
Swift Code: SMBC JP JT
Payee Name: The Japanese Red Cross Society
Payee Address: 1-1-3 Shiba-Daimon Minato-ku, Tokyo JAPAN
*If you need a receipt, please make a remark on the payment slip.
- Disaster victims
- "Restoring Family Links" Service
Singaporeans and Japanese residents who have diffculties locating their immediate family members due to the disaster can call the following hotlines provided by the Singapore Red Cross Society:
Hotlines: (+65) 6334-9152 / 6334-9153 / 6334-9154
- Individuals and private companies can also directly remit their donations by choice in support of:
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For those who feel uncomfortable revealing credit card number for online donation.. you can use Paypal to donate to the following supporting organisations
https://www.paypal-donations.com/pp-charity/web.us/campaign.jsp?cid=-12
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Another avenue for donation in kind.
Tzu Chi Japan Sets Up Relief Centre after Catastrophic Quake
http://www.tzuchi.org.sg/en/News/2011/20110314.html
Namo Guan Shi Yin /\
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Originally posted by simpo_:
For those who feel uncomfortable revealing credit card number for online donation.. you can use Paypal to donate to the following supporting organisations
https://www.paypal-donations.com/pp-charity/web.us/campaign.jsp?cid=-12
great. so which of the them is reliablily fast? heard the help is quite slow in reaching the disaster area.btw i normally use paypal donate to Jet Li One Foundation Limited also under Red Cross. seem bit quiet.
www.onefoundation.cn1person+1dollar+1month=1 big family
http://www.onefoundation.cn/html/en/beneficence_01.htm
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Red Cross should be fastest for now.
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Originally posted by realization:
Red Cross should be fastest for now.
in the link, u think the "American" Red Cross faster than the "in land" Japan's Hands On Tokyo ? -
Originally posted by sinweiy:
in the link, u think the "American" Red Cross faster than the "in land" Japan's Hands On Tokyo ?Red Cross is a recognized humanitarian relief organization. In any disaster, one of the first NGOs they let in will be the Red Cross. Don't forget they have Japan Red Cross in the country itself.
All funds we channel to any Red Cross worldwide will reach Red Cross Japan.
See this link http://www.handsontokyo.org/en/ways_to_give/japan_earthquake_and_tsunami
HandsOn Tokyo is more a civilian organization. I think they can help with after-aftermath (e.g. reconstruction and re-building), but not immediate aftermath which is now.
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i see. set. red cross then. :)
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Originally posted by Amitayus48:
Another avenue for donation in kind.
Tzu Chi Japan Sets Up Relief Centre after Catastrophic Quake
http://www.tzuchi.org.sg/en/News/2011/20110314.html
Namo Guan Shi Yin /\
I've called Tzuchi. Those who are interested to donate through TzuChi. Please send cheque dated 18 March as their donation license starts from tomorrow 18 March. 2011. Just indicate for Japan Disaster 2011. Send to the following address :
9 Elias Road
Singapore 519937
I think it is good to donate through them as they have people directly helping the Japanese who are affected by the disasters.
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Yes, I read that Tzu Chi has already sent off shipments of relief supplies from Taiwan to Japan.
Thanks for the information on where to send the cheques, and about how to date them.
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I am donating to red cross.
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Originally posted by sinweiy:
the statue still standing? similar to 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami where the temples/monestries were not destroy?
I assume it was standing. The caption for that picture was "A religious statue stands amongst debris in Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, on Monday." Everything is in such chaos, don't think anyone will think of setting the Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva statue upright.
Yes I think so.... In Otsuchi, only a supermarket and Buddhist temple was left standing. http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/14/uk-japan-quake-scene-idUSLNE72D02Q20110314
The Dao Ji Buddhist temple in Minamisanriku also survived the Tsunami and offered refuge for some of the people
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/304763
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2011/mar/16/japan-tsunami-buddhist-temple-video -
interesting. :) dharma protectors?
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Heard from news that everything was put on hold due to too many countries helping out in food and clothing. Airport jam up.
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it is foundation shaking moments for Japanese. as Japan always pride themselves on the technology cutting edge. perhaps it is a wake up call for us too, no matter how technology advance. we cannot supercede Mother Nature. pls offer a prayer for the dead and those who lost their loved ones that healing and restoration will come quickly through the Grace of triple gems.
Namu Myoho Renge Kyo
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Each time I wrote a comment, I deleted it for it felt so trivial and inadequate,
even as the gravity of disaster and suffering sank in, numbness set.Yet we cannot even begin to even near empathize even with our most immensesuffering that times over.How do we are able to imagine the most intense pain we go through andmultiply it by the numbers both dead and alive, when even one experiencedby one of us as an individual is deemed unbearable......What that many times and each of them is an individual like us not any lessendowed with the vulnerability to pain and sufferingCondolences for the dead,and yet, for the living, the suffering is not over.....We pray for the dead, and we pray for the living, in the hopes that we wouldnot appeaing blase to either party, encouraging and consoling the living withoutdisrespecting or dishonouring the dead.How will the living return to normalcy knowing full well that what that is normalas before will never be there again. The mark of impermanence we daily faceare gradual, not all changes so fast in one swift stroke.So normalcy may be replicated in that can be reconstructed with so familiarity,what of those full of life and as you turn to talk to them, only to realise thememories of them. To forget them that you would not feel the twang of loss,yet to do so is to live with the guilt of not holding them in loving memory......For even at this stage, now is not the time for grieving, for strength to rebuild isneeded, for is needed to be done, threat more danger still lurks.Please pray for the dead, please pray for the livingThat in this world of instant relentless flow information that we do not desensitizedourselves to be impersonal, because we cannot relate to the sheer scale of sufferings.more pictures -
Japan Disaster: The Tragedy In Pictures You May Have Not Seen! , page 1
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what remains is the glory of human spirit against defeat
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But the agony of suffering does'nt really goes, does it ?
Makes the three marks of existence is ever more poignant, is'nt it?
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its through agony that one is enlightened in spirit
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don't donate to Red Cross.......................
families of 9/11 victims had to sue Red Cross to get money that were donated to them...............
Red Cross CEO has annual salary of over USD600,000..........................
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nvm la, donated already.
can donate others, donate others. still, they are fastest to reach there is also a pro. it's ur sincerity in helping that count.
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wow!
Eerie tape captures sound of Japan's quake
Listen to Japan’s massive quake
According to Science Daily, the sounds of Japan's 9.0-magnitude quake "have been accelerated 16 times so that they can be audible to human ears." The red and yellow colors on the spectogram represent the most intense parts of the quake. You can also listen to the first and second aftershock on the LIDO site.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110318/ts_yblog_thelookout/listen-to-japans-massive-quake
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'Nuclear Ninja' Suicide Mission To Save Japan
3:44pm UK, Friday March 18, 2011
A handful of "heroes" working to avert a total meltdown at Japan's crippled nuclear plant have told loved ones not to expect them to return home.
Police officers wore protective suits as they drove near the nuclear plant.
The Japanese media have dubbed the elite squad of 180 technicians the "Samurai Warriors" and even the "Nuclear Ninjas" as they try to save their country.
One man, having already been exposed to dangerous levels of radiation, told his wife: "Please continue to live well, I cannot be home for a while."
While the young daughter of one of the workers wrote on Twitter: "My dad went to the nuclear plant. I have never heard my mother cry so hard."
She begged: "Please dad, come back alive."
Nuclear experts have said the men are on a suicide mission and that not even their airtight suits can save them from contamination.
And if they survive, they will face a lifetime of health problems.
The group, whose identities remain a mystery, stayed at the plant after 700 of their colleagues fled when radiation levels peaked at lethal levels.
Of those who decided to stay, five are known to have already died. A further two are missing and at least 21 others have been injured.
The seriously damaged Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant.
Their bravery is reminiscent of the three men who volunteered to swim to their deaths to save Russia during the Chernobyl disaster in 1986.
Engineer Alexei Ananenko and soldiers Valeri Bezpalov and Boris Baranov suited up in scuba-gear and swam through the radioactive waters of the flooded chamber to release the gate valve and allow the trapped water to drain out.
Many firemen and rescue workers also died from radioactive contamination after rushing to the scene to help despite knowing the risks.
A former worker at Chernobyl said: "The general came and said: 'I would rather have 2,000 people contaminated if it lets 200 million people live.'
"We were sent to work at the reactor, to clean up the waste.
