I have already pledged a donation online at www.oxfam.co.uk
The reason I used them is I am in Bahrain at the moment, and we are watching Sky News all the time, and its the web address that was shown on tv at the time as a place to make a donation. The donation figures for different countries below are in pounds sterling;

15 million from UK Govt
20 million from UK public (people donating from their own pockets
18 million from US
21 milliion from total EU govts.(including UK govt)

I am not stating my opinions, but I can understand why the west was critisied in being stingy if you do the math in amount donated per head of population. EU included. I am Irish myself, and I am not at home, but would not be surprised if the Irish govt has not donated much themselves.

I think that this event exceeded peoples expectations in terms of damage done and lives lost, and perhaps that might explain why the initial donations are not very representative on a per head of population. I think as time progresses and more is learnt, the level of donations will rise hopefully enough to help these people.

I know that you get hurricanes in the US, but this is on another level altogether. When was the last time over 100k people were killed anywhere in the world from a natural diaster?

This link poped up while I was typing this post. Look at the satelite photos.

http://drudgereport.com/

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