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Central Emergency Response Fund > Contributors > Pledged	$1,000,000.00	[15th of 28]
Hurricane Katrina > International aid response On September 2 the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that it will offer USD 5 million along with emergency supplies, including 1,000 tents, 600 generators, bed sheets, immediately for disaster relief. China will also send medical care and rescue workers if they are needed. This aid package consisting of 104 tons of supplies later arrived in Little Rock, Arkansas. A chartered plane carrying the supplies has arrived on September 7.
DEFINITION: International response to the Hurricane Katrina disaster.
SOURCE: Wikipedia: Central Emergency Response Fund
Tsunami > Foreigners death toll	15	[9th of 34]
DEFINITION: The number of foreigners feared dead is in the range of thousands. Only 112 foreigners have been confirmed dead and the countrywise breakup of the persons identified is given below (as of Saturday, Jan 22nd, 2005 - 06:30 PM GMT).
SOURCE: Wikipedia, CNN
Tsunami > Funds pledged	$63,070,000.00	[16th of 37]
DEFINITION: Funds pledged by the governments of developed countries for tsunami relief (as of September 30th 2005). The World Bank has pledged $250 million and the European Union $44 million. There have been significant amounts coming in from the UN and other aid agencies like IMF, UNDP, UNESCO, Red Cross, etc. which are not mentioned here. Private donations and collections from media campaigns are also high in many European countries, but have not been included here.
SOURCE: BBC, CNN, Wikipedia, Norwegian ministry of foreign affairs and French deputy foreign minister Renaud Muselier
Tsunami > Funds pledged by NGOs and public	$12,000,000.00	[20th of 24]
DEFINITION: Funds pledged by the NGOs and public of developed countries for tsunami relief (as of Saturday, Jan 22nd, 2005 - 06:30 PM GMT). This list does not include corporate donations.
SOURCE: OECD, Wikipedia, The Australian, BBC, Bloomberg, The Indian Express, CNN and The Reuters
Tsunami > International aid packages Pledged $63.1m in government donations, plus $1.8m donated to the Chinese Red Cross.
DEFINITION: Countries around the globe have stepped forward with pledges of cash and assistance to the victims of the southern Asian earthquake and tsunami disaster. The following is a list of contributions pledged by countries, (as of Saturday, Jan 22nd, 2005 - 06:30 PM GMT) compiled from reports by Reuters bureaux and United Nations agencies. There are packages coming from international Aid agencies like the IMF, The Red Cross, UNEP, UNICEF and WHO.
SOURCE: Wikipedia, The Australian, BBC, Bloomberg, The Indian Express, CNN and The Reuters
Tsunami > Total aid package	$95,070,000.00	[17th of 37]
DEFINITION: This is a chart of the total aid coming in from the following countries. It includes the funds pledged by the respective governments and the amounts collected by NGOs and the public (as of Saturday, Jan 22nd, 2005 - 06:30 PM GMT). Aid" is an ambiguous term that may cover a wide variety of methods, such as 'soft' loans or 'tied aid', where the money has to be spent buying goods ands services from the donating country. The numbers below also represent only the pledged contributions. Arguably, only funds that are actually transferred should be counted. For example, after the Bam earthquake in December 2003, the Iranian government received only USD 17.5 million of the USD one billion that was promised.
SOURCE: BBC, Alert net by Reuters, Sify news and The Age

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SOURCES: Wikipedia: Central Emergency Response Fund ; Wikipedia, CNN; BBC, CNN, Wikipedia, Norwegian ministry of foreign affairs and French deputy foreign minister Renaud Muselier; OECD, Wikipedia, The Australian, BBC, Bloomberg, The Indian Express, CNN and The Reuters; Wikipedia, The Australian, BBC, Bloomberg, The Indian Express, CNN and The Reuters; BBC, Alert net by Reuters, Sify news and The Age

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