Burma

Donate what you can. Save the Children. Red Cross. The death toll may have crossed 100000.

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Medecins Sans Frontieres already get a quarterly donation from me, but I just hope like hell that they and the other agencies are actually allowed to get in to Burma and do their work. The signs aren't good.