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Live Reports from
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Pictures from the Front
Team
5.22  Urgent need from the front
line:
1. Tarp is needed
everywhere. It can work temporarily against the weather
when/where tent is unavailable.
2. Food such as rice, flour, oil and fresh
vegetables.
3. Protective
supplies like masks and rubber
gloves.
5.21 Now the relief effort has
entered another stage that's focused on preventing epidemic
outbreaks, and helping quake victims to settle
down.... More Details
5.21 More
than 600 children resumed their classes in Jiuzhou Stadium of
Mianyang, with 600 sets of school supplies donated by
OSCCF. More
Details
5.20 Now is not a good time
to adopt survived orphans. It takes several months to identity
find these children and help them find their family and
relatives. Families who wish to adopt should start learning
children psychology and getting prepared in the next months.
It takes more patience and wisdom to bring up traumatic
orphans.
5.20 In
the afternoon, 8000 N95 mask was delivered to volunteers in
Chengdu from Guangzhou. The masks filter out viral pathogens
and effectively protect the respirators system (nose and
mouth) in a pandemic environment. They will be distributed to
volunteers and survivors at the soonest time.
5.19 I went to Yingxiu
with several moms from Guangzhoumoms.com. We brought more than
20 boxes of baby stuff. The road was rebuilt with tremendous
efforts from soldiers but remained horrible... More
Details
5.19
On the day when the order of retreating was issued, I believed there were still survivors under the rubbles, unfortunately we have to retreat... More Details
5.17
OSCCF managed to borrow a loan of US $70,000 for the medicines. A cargo truck is on its way to ship the medicine from An Hui Province to the disaster area. More Details
5.16
We urgently need
the following supplies : Isolation Clothes, professional
level (protective masks, protective gloves), rubbing alcohol,
absorbent cotton, bottled water and medications. More
Details
5.16 Beichuan County is the worst affected area. We are disinfecting now
but are in urgent need of medical supplies. The place is
in danger of epidemic spread and is not properly equipped
to fight off this immediate danger. More details
5.15 The disaster site
was so much more miserable than what you saw on TV, more than
100 times worse. We were totally stunned, speechless and we
even forgot how to cry. Soldiers just dug out 7 kids live in a
middle school. More Details
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Medical
Supplies
OSCCF has
secured medical supplies worth $70,000 but needs
fund to ship them to BeiChuan. Please help us by making a
donation(instruction below).
Baby/Child
Supplies
OSCCF was among the
first groups that brought formula and other crucial baby/child
supplies to victims. These fragile beings needs our
help.
How to
Donate
Mail: Please make all checks or
money orders payable to
OSCCF and mail
to:
Overseas Save
the Chinese Children Foundation
793-10 Federal Road
Brookfield,CT 06804
On the memo line, please write 'Earthquake'
Donate via Paypal
to children@osccf.org
Please specify 'Earthquake'.
We appreciate your
generosity!
Sichuan Earthquake Facts
-- from
Multiple Sources
- More than 34,000 dead
- Thousands still missing
- Approximately 14,000 trapped under collapsed
buildings
- At least 436,000 homes have collapsed
- 159,000 injured
- At least 4.8 million homeless
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Students study at a temporary
classroom under a tent on an open field at Haihong primary
school in Dujiangyan, Sichuan province, May 17, 2008. None of
the school's 253 staff and students died in the May 12
earthquake that also left the school building unscathed. The
words read in Chinese, "Learning area".
REUTERS/Stringer (CHINA)
National Mourning Days(5.19-5.21)
China's national flag flies
at half-mast after the flag-raising ceremony in Beijing Monday
morning, May 19, 2008. China on Monday begins a three-day
national mourning for the tens of thousands of people killed
in a powerful earthquake which struck the country's southwest
on May 12.
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