[Ssf] FW: Tsunami solidarity

Wed Jan 5 20:19:04 GMT 2005

Thought people may be interested in an ethical / grassroots way of
donating to Tsunami relief.

Alison

From:    nico.verhagen at t-online.de (Nico Verhagen)
Date:    December 31, 2004 7:09:00 AM GMT+07:00
To:    "Via Campesina" <viacampesina at viacampesina.org
Subject    PLEASE DONATE TO VIA CAMPESINA TSUNAMI RELIEF FUND
Reply-To:    "Nico Verhagen" <nico.verhagen at t-online.de

PLEASE CIRCULATE WIDELY
Via Campesina

EMERGENCY: Please donate to Via Campesina Tsunami relief and
reconstruction fund. Via Campesina launches initiative to raise funds
for self-help by affected communities Please support fisherfolk and
peasant communities in their own relief and reconstruction from the
Tsunami disaster
Via Campesina (http://www.viacampesina.org) - the global alliance of
peasant, family farmer, farm worker, indigenous and landless peoples
organizations, and other rural movements - calls for solidarity with the
millions of people affected by the tsunami disaster and is launching a
global fundraising campaign to channel assistance to affected
communities of fisherfolk and peasants, for their own relief and
reconstruction efforts, through grassroots organizations.  We ask for
your donation for direct emergency support to provide basic needs of
food, clean drinking water, shelter and health care to affected
fisherfolk and peasant families, as well as to help us initiate the long
term work of reconstructing our own communities and rebuilding our
livelihoods.
Make a secure on-line credit card donation now by clicking on:
https://secure.groundspring.org/dn/index.php?aid=4589
[SEE BELOW IF YOU PREFER TO GIVE BY MAIL OR BY WIRE TRANSFER]
The relief philosophy of Via Campesina is that our communities should
participate actively and be the key actors in the re-construction
process, and that our fisherfolk and peasant organizations should play a
key mobilizing and supporting role. Via Campesina wants to give our
communities and organizations the political support they need in this
process, and to help get the funds we need for reconstruction.  The
funds raised in this campaign will be used to strengthen local
communities as the key actors in this process.
The success of local, self-organized, civil society disaster relief
efforts in previous disasters in Latin America, Asia, and Africa,
contrasted with government inefficiency and top-down, demobilizing
programs, has often marked a key stage in the empowerment and growth of
large, popular, grassroots, civil society social movements by which
previously marginalized people take control of their own lives. Let us
work together at this time, and let us do so in ways that help build
self-sufficiency, grassroots organization, and peoples power for the
future.
In addition to the millions who have been displaced or affected, many
tens of thousands have lost their homes and fishing equipment or farming
tools. Fisherfolk have lost their boats, and the land of peasant
families has been contaminated, their crops destroyed and their farm
animals lost. Your donation will help us get back on our feet.
Examples of actions already underway:
o In Indonesia, the National Federation of Indonesian Peasant
Organizations (FSPI), a member of Via Campesina, together with a number
of non-governmental organizations (NGOs), has created a civil society
relief team that is now working in Aceh (with an estimated 25,000 dead
and many times more missing and/or homeless) and in North Sumatra (5,000
dead) provinces to distribute supplies, and to carry out search and
rescue missions for missing people. The situation in dramatic, and at
the moment (30 Dec) there is no direct communication with many areas.
o In Sri Lanka, perhaps the country worst hit by the tsunamis, the
National Organization of Fisherfolk (NAFSO) has sent 5 teams to affected
areas for relief work and help communities start the task of
reconstruction. They have organized fact finding missions and are now
defining how to cope with the urgent relief needs while communities plan
and begin to carry the medium term work of rehabilitation.
Make a secure on-line credit card donation now by clicking on:
https://secure.groundspring.org/dn/index.php?aid=4589 or
SEE BELOW FOR INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO GIVE BY MAIL OR BY WIRE TRANSFER

INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO GIVE BY MAIL OR BY WIRE TRANSFER
1. If you are in Europe, you can deposit funds in the following account:

Account number: 3035 0022 4202 2005 5606
Beneficiary: Via Campesina-Honduras
IBAN code: ES23 3035 0022 4202 2005 5606
BIC/SWIFT code: CLPEES2M
Bank: Caja Laboral
Bank address: Calle 8 de enero, Guernika, Pais Basco
Tel: +34 94 625 0098
Fax: +34 94 625 6662
Please send an email alerting us of your donation to:
nico.verhagen at t-online.de

2. If you are in the United States (and/or have US dollar denominated
checks or money orders), and want to donate by mail:

Please make your check out to "Via Campesina/CENSA" and mail it to:
CENSA/Via Campesina
2288 Fulton Street, suite 103
Berkeley, CA 94704 USA

3. If you want to make a bank wire transfer for the relief campaign, you
can wire funds to:

NOTE: the funds must be transferred to the First Union Bank in the USA,
where the Banco Grupo El Ahorro Hondureño (BGA) has an account. In the
communication with the transfer you have to put in the data of the final
beneficiary.
a.    Data of the final Beneficiary Bank
* Bank: Banco Grupo El Ahorro Hondureño (BGA)
* Name of Beneficiary: Pedro Rafael Alegria, Maria Concepción Betanco,
Via Campesina
* Account Number at BGA: 107 108 6292
* Telephone: ( 504 ) 235-9915 and 239-4679
* Country and City: Honduras, Tegucigalpa M.D.C.
b.    Data of the Bank in the USA
* Bank: First Union Bank (now called Wachovia)
* ABA Code 026005092
* Swift Code B/C: PNBP US 3N NYC
* Account Number: 2000192001436
* Name: Banco Grupo El Ahorro Hondureño (BGA)
Please send an email alerting us of your donation to: 
viacampesina at multivisionhn.net

4. If you want to make a bank wire transfer for relief specifically in
Indonesia, you can wire funds to:

Bank: Standard Chartered Bank
Swift Bank Code: SCB LIDJ XAXXX
Address of Bank: Jl. Imam Bonjol No. 17 North Sumatera, Indonesia.

Account number : 047-1-005467-2

Name of Payee : Sintesa (Yayasan Sinar Tani Indonesia)
Please send an email to alert us of your donation to:
ilubis at cbn.net.id 

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT AND SOLIDARITY,

Via Campesina (http://www.viacampesina.org)

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