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Central Emergency Response Fund > Contributors > Pledged
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$4.00
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[4th of 28]
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Funds commited to Tsunami aid
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$7.00 |
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[7th of 22]
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Funds committed to emergency Tsunami aid
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$8.00 |
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[8th of 22]
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Hurricane Katrina > International aid response
Royal Netherlands Navy Frigate Hr.Ms. Van Amstel has arrived from the Netherlands Antilles. The frigate is filled with supplies and has helicopters on board that can be used in rescue actions. Further, The Netherlands have sent experts on the subject of water containment and dikes, identification teams and pumps to deliver clean drinking water, F-16s and divers from the Royal Netherlands Marine Corps. |
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Tsunami > Foreign tourists missing
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23 |
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[23rd of 37]
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Tsunami > Foreigners death toll
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19 |
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[19th of 34]
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Tsunami > Funds pledged
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$7.00 |
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[7th of 37]
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Tsunami > Funds pledged by NGOs and public
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$4.00 |
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[4th of 24]
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Tsunami > International aid packages
Donated $34m by the government and aid groups say a further $35m has been raised in private donations. A Dutch police identification team has been sent to Thailand. |
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Tsunami > Total aid package
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$6.00 |
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[6th of 37]
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Tsunami aid commitments as a percent of pledges
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13% |
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[13th of 16]
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SOURCES:
; Total amount of funds commited to Tsunami aid. Fund commitments refer to the amount of money governments have officially set aside for Tsunami relief. Funds pledged (click here to view the statistic) refers to the amount countries have publicly announced they would contribute. Hence, pledges can often fall far short of the final commitment.; Amount of funds (in US Dollars) committed to emergency aid. Emergency aid commitments refers to the amount of money governments have officially contributed and have quickly dispersed for emergency Tsunami relief. This amount is taken out of the total aid commitment (click here to view the total Tsunami aid commitment statistic).; International response to the Hurricane Katrina disaster.; Number of foreign tourists visiting the tsunami hit areas who are not reachable, (as of Saturday, Jan 22nd, 2005 - 06:30 PM GMT).; 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).; 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.; 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.; 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.; 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.; Percentages of Tsunami aid committed out of the aid originally pledged. For example, if a percentage on this statistic is above 50%, this means the country in question contributed over 50% of the amount of Tsunami aid it originally promised.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES:
Netherlands, Kingdom of the Netherlands, Koninkrijk der Nederlanden, Nederland, the netherlands
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