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Date: Friday, January 14, 2005
Title: Sri Lanka Kiwanians seek to restore hope
Children are playing again in Sri Lanka, but it is a sad scene.
“We spoke to several people in the makeshift camps,” reports Daya Ratnayake, who was among a team of Colombo City, Sri Lanka, Kiwanians who recently visited areas struck by the December 26 tsunami. “Almost all have given up hope, not knowing what lies ahead in their future. We saw children playing, not having the simplest clue their family perished—not knowing they have no breadwinner.
“We heard about many incidents of children and adults being sexually abused, kidnapped, and even sold by child traffickers in the aftermath of this disaster.”
The club is committed to serving the children whose lives have been tragically changed. “We will endeavor to prove that Kiwanians worldwide live by their beliefs,” Daya says.
The club has instituted the first phase of its assistance: providing milk, other food items, drinking water, and medicines to stop the spread of disease. Among the immediate needs are portable field toilets and a source of large tents to house displaced persons, 30 percent of whom are children.
A second phase of Colombo City Kiwanis assistance will address the long-term needs of children, including the construction and renovation of orphanages, schools, and child-care centers.
Contributions for relief efforts in Sri Lanka, Indonesia, and other areas affected by the December tsunami can me made to the  Kiwanis International Foundation Disaster Relief Fund. Monies will be released to clubs in the affected areas for use in projects benefiting the youngest victims: children.
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Date: Wednesday, January 12, 2005
Title: Indonesian Kiwanians pitch in to aid in tsunami relief
 Recently, Kiwanis Indonesia set up an office to take donations and work with local distributors to aid the immediate needs of the victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami. The tsunami, which struck the western edge of the country December 26, has left countless people without homes, food, heat and many without their families.
The organization is collecting food and goods such as drinking water, clothes, medical supplies and blankets as well as monetary donations to help and has even began adopting children and educating them in the Kiwanis Indonesia Orphanage.
 To date, they have collected over US$50,000 in items thus far, including oil stoves, white boards with markers, plastic tables and chairs and tents as well as nearly $100,000 in monetary donations from members.
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Date: Monday, January 10, 2005
Title: Medicine, clothing, relief en route to disaster scenes
 “Let us send our profound sympathy to you and yours concerning this terrible disaster. Our Kiwanis club wants to help.”—Glenn Moore, Kiwanis Club of Pioneer Community of Mason County, Shelton, Washington.
“If we can be of any help, please let us know. We will do our utmost best to serve the children of Indonesia during these hard times.”—Frank te Hennepe, Kiwanis Club of Arnhem, the Netherlands.
“Rest assured that we will do our best to help the poor children in Western Sumatra.”—Ernst Silbermayr, Kiwanis Club of Wels, Austria.
Offers of assistance pour into Sri Lanka and Indonesia from the Kiwanis world in the aftermath of December’s tsunami disaster. In addition to compassionate words, Kiwanis clubs are moving relief supplies and donations toward the hardest hit communities.
 In Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, a container of medical supplies, water, diabetic tablets, rice, bandages, diapers, baby bottles, pacifiers, clothing, water-purification tablets, and candies was loaded onto an Sri Lankan Airlines plane this past January 9, destined for Colombo City, Sri Lanka. The Kuala Lumpur Kiwanis club collected the supplies, along with financial donations totaling more than US$10,000.
 The Kiwanis Club of Sentosa, Malaysia, packed a 40-foot container of aid for Banda Aceh, Indonesia. Other Malaysian clubs add to the relief efforts, including US$2,500 donations each from the Kiwanis clubs of Klang, Johor Bahru, and Bukit Kiara. Members of the Circle K clubs of Metropolitan College and Taylors Business School collected commuters’ donations at the main stations of Kuala Lumpur’s Light Rail Transit system. The money will be used to buy household items, cooking utensils, nonperishable foods, generator sets, and provisions for children.
Other Kiwanis-family activity includes:
• The Kiwanis Club of Hollis, New York, and the Builders Club of Susan B. Anthony Intermediate School worked together to initiate a fund-raiser with a “walking” theme. The Builders designed a paper decal, shaped like a sneaker, which acknowledges each person who donates at least $1. The certificate includes the inscription: “Walk for the Victims of Tsunami Fund-raiser.” Banners, posted throughout the school, promote the ongoing activity, which collected $300 in its first two days. Weather permitting, the school will conclude the project with a walk around the school, and the money will be contributed to the Kiwanis International Foundation’s Disaster Relief Fund.
• The University of South Florida Circle K club has scheduled a book fair at a Tampa-area Barnes and Noble Book Store, which will donate up to 25 percent of all sales the club generates that day. “As Circle K members, we must make a difference,” says club member Rebecca Jetter, reporting that the proceeds will be donated to the KIF Disaster Relief Fund. “Our brothers and sisters need our help, and that is what we are going to give them.”
• “When you see the pictures of the survivors, especially the children, you would have to have the coldest heart in the world not to help,” says Charlotte S. Groome, a member of the Kiwanis Club of Cape May, New Jersey, which donated $500 to the KIF Disaster Relief Fund.
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Date: Friday, January 07, 2005
Title: Kiwanis family meets disaster challenge
Members of the Kiwanis Club of Allentown, Pennsylvania, expressed their hopes of assisting the youngest victims of Asia’s tsunami disaster with a US$50,000 to the Kiwanis International Foundation’s Disaster Relief Fund. The club presented the check to the foundation Thursday, along with a challenge to the Allentown community to contribute another $50,000.
Kiwanis-family assistance continues to increase throughout the world:
• “Because of the massive devastation in the areas hit by the tsunamis, the Kiwanis Club of Coronado, Albuquerque, New Mexico, wanted to provide aid to the children in the affected areas,” reports Bob Hoffman, announcing his club’s $1,270 contribution to the Disaster Relief Fund. “Since Kiwanis is a worldwide organization, the Kiwanis International Foundation is in the best position to get aid directly to the children in the affected areas. Additionally, the Foundation assured us that every penny donated would go to the children in the areas devastated by the tsunamis.”
• Normally, proceeds from a dominoes party go into the Belen Jesuit Preparatory High School Key Club’s budget to support club activities, but this year, the Miami, Florida, students will tighten their budget and give the estimated $10,000 to $15,000 to assisting the victims of the tsunami disaster.
• The Kiwanis Club of Moncton, New Brunswick, contributed CDN$5,000 through UNICEF. A matching donation from the Canadian government increased the gift to $10,000. The club also is working with the Sri Lankan government to determine how to assist children orphaned by the disaster.
• The Kiwanis Club of Kuala Lumpur assembled a shipment of medical supplies, but members also have included candies and baby food for children in the disaster area.
• Students and teachers will show off their various talents at a Seymour, Indiana, High School Key Club concert Friday, January 14. Supporters will vote for the best act by donating money, which is earmarked for the Kiwanis International Foundation.
• Amy Hammerle reports that her Lebanon, Indiana, Kiwanis club is contributing $1,000, to which members are adding their own donations.
• Similarly, the Kiwanis Club of Bangor, Maine, pledged to contribute $500, according to member Art Tilley Jr. But the club has challenged members to match the gift. And some members are asking their employers or businesses to contribute also.
• Richard Wade, a member of the Harney Point-Cape Coral, Florida, Kiwanis club, involved his co-workers in collecting funds. “I sent an e-mail to my office, telling the office manager about how to donate through our club to help the children in the areas hit by the tsunami,” Dick says. The e-mail was shared among Dick’s co-workers and e-mailed to other Century 21 AAIM Realty offices. At a sales meeting, the owner announced he would match the agents’ donations. “It just shows you,” Dick says, “most folks want to help when other people are having problems. All you have to do is tell them how.” In just its first day, the campaign raised $600.
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Date: Thursday, January 06, 2005
Title: Kiwanis rushes aid to tsunami victims
The people of Punta Gorda, Florida, know the lingering struggle and heartbreak that follows a natural disaster. Many of its citizens, including some of the community’s Kiwanians, remain displaced after a hurricane destroyed their homes this past summer.
But Punta Gorda Kiwanians also remember the outpouring of compassion they received in their time of need; so, they were among the first in the Kiwanis family to respond with assistance for the victims of the tsunami that swept across the Indian Ocean this past December.
“Time and money are urgently needed NOW!” wrote club secretary Bob “Carp” Carpenter in a letter to his club. “When we got hit by Hurricane Charley, Kiwanis clubs from all over came to our aid, as did the Florida Kiwanis Foundation. Now it’s our turn to help others in great need.”
The club wrote a US$2,000 check to the Kiwanis International Foundation’s Disaster Relief Fund. Other Kiwanis-family clubs also responded to the disaster:
• Members of the Kiwanis club of Colombo City, Sri Lanka, drove five hours to Trincomalee with medicine and other urgently needed supplies. Located on the eastern coast of the island, the Trincomalee District was one of the hardest hit areas in Sri Lanka.
• Salvation Army kettles, traditionally used only during the end-of-year holidays, are back on the streets in Oak Bay, Victoria, British Columbia, where Kiwanians are collecting donations for tsunami relief.
• One 40-foot container and two 20-foot containers left Singapore, destined for Sri Lanka. The Kiwanis Club of Singapore packed the containers with relief supplies. And the Kiwanis Club of Singapore-Delta Chapter collected 12 boxes of clothing.
• The Kiwanis Club of Stuttgart, Germany, sent 4,000 euros to the Colombo City, Sri Lanka, Kiwanis club.
• The Lindenwald-Hamilton, Ohio, Kiwanis club pledged US$5,000 for disaster relief.
• The Kiwanis Club of Taipei-Diana, Taiwan, is sending US$1,500 to each Kiwanis club in Sri Lanka and Indonesia.
• At a recent regular meeting of the Kiwanis Club of Bonita, California, members “passed the hat” and collected US$425, which the club “rounded up” to $500.
• The Lemon Grove Sunrise, California, Kiwanis club issued a call in its community for unwanted vehicles. The club works with You Auto Donate to convert the vehicles into contributions to Kiwanis’ tsunami relief efforts.
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Date: Thursday, December 30, 2004
Title: Foundation responds to tsunami tragedy
The Kiwanis International Foundation will use its Disaster Relief Fund to assist children affected by the recent tsunami and typhoons that have devastated much of the Asia-Pacific region.
“The Kiwanis International Foundation has received numerous messages of concern for the well-being of those distressed by the recent tsunami and typhoons in the Asia-Pacific region,” says Foundation President Ralph E. Wilson Jr. “Consequently, the Kiwanis International Foundation Disaster Relief Fund will be used to aid children affected by the devastating disasters.
“Our Foundation will be working through the districts and clubs within the affected areas to ensure that contributions will be directed to children with the most immediate and critical needs.
“Many of those expressing concern also ask if there is anything they can do to help. Contributions are being accepted. Please send your support to the Kiwanis International Foundation Disaster Relief Fund, 3636 Woodview Trace, Indianapolis, Indiana 46268, USA or donate via the secure online form at http://kif.kiwanis.org/kif/grants/disaster.asp.
“Our thoughts are with the countless individuals suffering because of these natural disasters. Please join us in serving the children who are truly the most innocent victims of severe tragedies.”
Several Kiwanis nations have been directly affected by the disasters, including Sri Lanka, Indonesia, India, Malaysia, Bangladesh, and Kenya.
“Almost 30,000 have died, and many more are missing,” reports Daya Ratnayake, a member of the Kiwanis Club of Colombo City, Sri Lanka, which was struck by enormous waves Sunday, December 26. “People are dying of water-borne diseases and lack of sanitation.”
Daya reported an immediate need for IV equipment, diabetic tablets, bandages, water-purification tablets, surgical needles, clothes (summer), and cough medicines.
Teguh Budiono of the Kiwanis Club of Senayan, Indonesia, reports that Kiwanis-family members are safe, because most of the destruction occurred in the northern part of Sumatra. (Kiwanis’s Indonesian clubs are located on the island of Java.) However, the clubs are sending financial assistance, as well as food, clothing, and medicine to Banda Aceh. The Aceh province is located near the epicenter of the undersea earthquake, which sent destructive waves throughout the Indian Ocean.
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KIWANIS und die Yehudi- Menuhin- Stiftung- Deutschland starten Modellprojekt: "mus-e elementar" in Solingen.Bärbel Schäfer gibt den Startschuss in der Kindertagesstätte Fuhr.
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Der KIWANIS Club Solingen hat am 28. November 2003 anlässlich des Konzerts POP meets CLASSIC des Top- Generation Showorchestras im Stadttheater Solingen den Solinger KIWANIS- Preis 2003 an die Schauspielerin Veronica Ferres verliehen.
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Renate Schmidt, Bundesministerin für Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend, hat in Fürth den KIWANIS-Preis 2003 in Empfang genommen.
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gefunden in Geo.de, Artikel vom 4.01.2005
Tsunami: Die unberechenbare WogeGEO.de zeigt Satellitenbilder, die das ganze Ausmaß der Tsunami-Katastrophe in Südostasien erkennen lassen und fasst zusammen, was Meeresforscher bislang über die Monsterwellen herausgefunden haben.Mit Animation
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