Eshin Direct

The International Red Cross has launched its own website to help track down survivors and relatives of those missing in the tsunami disaster. The link is http://www.icrc.org/familylinks although it is hard to get on the site. I’m posting this up in response to some searches already on my site looking for survivors.

I’d suggest that if you don’t have immediate friends and family you are trying to locate, that you avoid connecting to the site so that other more direct family members and friends can locate their loved ones. It sounds cold but if you haven’t spoken to that one friend for about five years who might have been in Indonesia on holiday, then I’m sure it can wait while mothers, fathers, etc. try to locate their kin.

And a good online resource for information is http://tsunamihelp.blogspot.com/. These volunteered IT resources are probably going to buckle under the strain of so many genuine hits and visits, that if you’re just going to gawp, then get your tragedy fix from CNN or someone else. You wouldn’t go sightseeing to Thailand now just to see the suffering, would you?

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