Unless you’ve been stuck in a basement for the past 24 years you would no doubt have heard about the devastating earthquake in China on Monday. I was in the office at the time and, although I didn’t feel a thing, many in Beijing did – but little did we imagine at the time the scale of the devastation.
Continued news coverage is available at numerous online and offline news sources, with the death toll currently estimated to be around the 50,000 mark.
Those interested to donate could do so through various outlets: in Hong Kong you can donate through the Hong Kong Red Cross (donations above HK$1000 are tax-deductible) or in China most major payment gateways such as YeePay are offering similar services. At Jipingmi we have also listed various options for those within China.
The US based Mercy Corps with long established projects in Sichuan Province accept donations in USD and, just so that Burma isn’t entirely shunned from the news, i’ll mention that Mercy Corps also accepts donations towards Burmese cyclone survivors – something unfortunately now being overshadowed by events in China, albeit that the Burmese government is much to blame for its refusal to accept foreign aid.
