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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Thought people may be interested in an
ethical / grassroots way of donating to Tsunami relief.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Alison</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'><br>
From: <u>nico.verhagen@t-online.de</u> (Nico Verhagen)<br>
Date: </span></font><font size=2 face="Comic Sans MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>December 31, 2004</span></font><font
size=2 face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>
</span></font><font size=2 face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>7:09:00 AM GMT</span></font><font size=2
face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>+</span></font><font size=2 face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>07:00</span></font><font
size=2 face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'><br>
To: "Via Campesina"
<viacampesina@viacampesina.org<br>
Subject PLEASE DONATE TO VIA CAMPESINA TSUNAMI RELIEF FUND<br>
Reply-To: "Nico Verhagen" <<u>nico.verhagen@t-online.de</u></span></font></p>
<h5><b><font size=2 face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>PLEASE CIRCULATE WIDELY<br>
<i><span style='font-style:italic'>Via Campesina</span></i></span></font></b></h5>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>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<br>
Via Campesina (<u>http://www.viacampesina.org</u>) - 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.<br>
Make a secure on-line credit card donation now by clicking on:<br>
https://secure.groundspring.org/dn/index.php?aid=4589<br>
[SEE BELOW IF YOU PREFER TO GIVE BY MAIL OR BY WIRE TRANSFER]<br>
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.<br>
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.<br>
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.<br>
Examples of actions already underway:<br>
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.<br>
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.<br>
Make a secure on-line credit card donation now by clicking on:<br>
https://secure.groundspring.org/dn/index.php?aid=4589 or<br>
SEE BELOW FOR INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO GIVE BY MAIL OR BY WIRE TRANSFER</span></font></p>
<h5><b><font size=2 face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO GIVE BY MAIL OR BY WIRE
TRANSFER<br>
<i><span style='font-style:italic'>1. If you are in Europe, you can deposit
funds in the following account:</span></i></span></font></b></h5>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>Account number: 3035 0022 4202 2005 5606<br>
Beneficiary: Via Campesina-Honduras<br>
IBAN code: ES23 3035 0022 4202 2005 5606<br>
BIC/SWIFT code: CLPEES2M<br>
Bank: Caja Laboral<br>
Bank address: Calle 8 de enero, Guernika, Pais Basco<br>
Tel: +34 94 625 0098<br>
Fax: +34 94 625 6662<br>
Please send an email alerting us of your donation to:<br>
nico.verhagen@t-online.de</span></font></p>
<h5><b><i><font size=2 face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Comic Sans MS";font-style:italic'>2. If you are in the United
States (and/or have US dollar denominated checks or money orders), and want to
donate by mail:</span></font></i></b></h5>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>Please make your check out to "Via
Campesina/CENSA" and mail it to:<br>
CENSA/Via Campesina<br>
2288 Fulton Street, suite 103<br>
Berkeley, CA 94704 USA</span></font></p>
<h5><b><i><font size=2 face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Comic Sans MS";font-style:italic'>3. If you want to make a bank
wire transfer for the relief campaign, you can wire funds to:</span></font></i></b></h5>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>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.<br>
a. Data of the final Beneficiary Bank<br>
</span></font><font size=2 face=Symbol><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Symbol'>…</span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font><font size=2
face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>Bank:
Banco Grupo El Ahorro Hondureño (BGA)<br>
</span></font><font size=2 face=Symbol><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Symbol'>…</span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font><font size=2
face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>Name
of Beneficiary: Pedro Rafael Alegria, Maria Concepción Betanco, Via Campesina<br>
</span></font><font size=2 face=Symbol><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Symbol'>…</span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font><font size=2
face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>Account
Number at BGA: 107 108 6292<br>
</span></font><font size=2 face=Symbol><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Symbol'>…</span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font><font size=2
face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>Telephone:
( 504 ) 235-9915 and 239-4679<br>
</span></font><font size=2 face=Symbol><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Symbol'>…</span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font><font size=2
face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>Country
and City: Honduras, Tegucigalpa M.D.C.<br>
b. Data of the Bank in the USA<br>
</span></font><font size=2 face=Symbol><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Symbol'>…</span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font><font size=2
face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>Bank:
First Union Bank (now called Wachovia)<br>
</span></font><font size=2 face=Symbol><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Symbol'>…</span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font><font size=2
face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>ABA
Code 026005092<br>
</span></font><font size=2 face=Symbol><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Symbol'>…</span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font><font size=2
face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>Swift
Code B/C: PNBP US 3N NYC<br>
</span></font><font size=2 face=Symbol><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Symbol'>…</span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font><font size=2
face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>Account
Number: 2000192001436<br>
</span></font><font size=2 face=Symbol><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Symbol'>…</span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font><font size=2
face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>Name:
Banco Grupo El Ahorro Hondureño (BGA)<br>
Please send an email alerting us of your donation to: <br>
viacampesina@multivisionhn.net</span></font></p>
<h5><b><i><font size=2 face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Comic Sans MS";font-style:italic'>4. If you want to make a bank
wire transfer for relief specifically in Indonesia, you can wire funds to:</span></font></i></b></h5>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>Bank: Standard Chartered Bank<br>
Swift Bank Code: SCB LIDJ XAXXX<br>
Address of Bank: Jl. Imam Bonjol No. 17 North Sumatera, Indonesia.</span></font></p>
<h5><b><i><font size=2 face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Comic Sans MS";font-style:italic'>Account number : 047-1-005467-2</span></font></i></b></h5>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>Name of Payee : Sintesa (Yayasan Sinar Tani
Indonesia)<br>
Please send an email to alert us of your donation to:<br>
ilubis@cbn.net.id </span></font></p>
<h5><b><font size=2 face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT AND SOLIDARITY,</span></font></b></h5>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Via Campesina (</span></font><font size=2 face="Comic Sans MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>http://www.viacampesina.org</span></font>)</p>
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