Tsunami Donations: Money Raised and Spent

AMERICAN RED CROSS

Washington
Amount raised: $567.3-million
Amount spent: $166.8-million
Where the money is going: To provide food, water, medical services, shelter, and to vaccinate children and take other measures to prevent diseases. In addition, donations are paying for improvements in water and sanitation systems; for training to prepare people in tsunami-ravaged countries to deal with future disasters; and for boats, docks, and other items needed to restore the fishing industry.

WORLD VISION
Federal Way, Wash.
Amount raised: $246-million
Amount spent: $90-million
Where the money is going: To provide food and water and offer programs to help tsunami victims with hygiene; to provide cash payments to local residents hired to aid in cleanup work; to rebuild and reopen schools, clinics, and community centers; and for efforts to restore farming, fishing, and small-business activities. The charity says it also plans to build up to 4,000 new houses in Indonesia.

CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES
Baltimore
Amount raised: $159.6-million
Amount spent: $41-million
Where the money is going: To provide food, water, and medical supplies; to rebuild homes; to provide fishing boats and equipment, as well as job trainiing, educational materials, and school uniforms.

U.S. FUND FOR UNICEF
New York
Amount raised: $137-million
Amount spent: Not available
Where the money is going: To provide food, water, temporary shelter, immunizations and medical care; to rebuild 500 schools in Indonesia; to train teachers and provide school supplies and textbooks; to provide aid for orphanages and foster-care programs.

SAVE THE CHILDREN USA
Westport, Conn.
Amount raised: $132-million
Amount spent: $53-million
Where the money is going: To provide food, water, and medical services and to help reunite families. The charity is also providing temporary, transitional, and permanent housing, with a goal of building at least 3,300 permanent houses in Indonesia by 2007; building new schools and community centers; and helping to restore farming, fishing, and small-business activities.

CARE USA
Atlanta
Amount raised: $56-million
Amount spent: $40-million
Where the money is going: To provide food and water; temporary and permanent housing, with plans to build as many 10,000 new houses. In addition, the donations are helping to pay local workers hired to remove debris and help with construction, as well as efforts to restore jobs.

HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
Americus, Ga.
Amount raised: $50-million
Amount spent: $8.5-million
Where the money is going: To repair damaged housing and construct new homes; to create centers to train construction workers and to manufacture building supplies.

AMERICARES FOUNDATION
Stamford, Conn.
Amount raised: $45-million
Amount spent: $22.5-million
Where the money is going: To provide medical services, supplies, and equipment, including support for 37 health centers in Indonesia; for efforts to prevent malaria, and to finance water and sanitation projects.

MERCY CORPS
Portland, Oregon
Amount raised: $33-million
Amount spent: $13-million
Where the money is going: To provide food, water, medical services, shelter, and school supplies; cash payments to local residents hired to aid in cleanup efforts. The charity is also working to restore farming, fishing, and small-business activities.

OXFAM AMERICA
Boston
Amount raised: $30-million
Amount spent: Not available
Where the money is going: To provide food, water, and medical supplies, as well as temporary shelters; to restore local water supplies, as well as farming, fishing, and small-business activities; to conduct advocacy work on behalf of “vulnerable” populations, such as widows, orphans, and members of ethnic minorities.

SAMARITAN’S PURSE
Boone, N.C.
Amount raised: $30-million
Amount spent: Not available
Where the money is going: To provide food, water, and medical supplies, and make efforts to prevent malaria; to build up to 3,000 houses in Indonesia; and to provide fishing boats and equipment to tsunami victims.

SALVATION ARMY
Alexandria, Va.
Amount raised: $24-million
Amount spent: $11.5-million
Where the money is going: To provide food, water, medical supplies, and clothing; to construct up to 1,000 houses in Sri Lanka; and to make repairs to local roads, bridges, and other “infrastructure” destroyed by the tsunamis.

LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF
Baltimore
Amount raised: $23.4-million
Amount spent: $4.1-million
Where the money is going: To provide food, water, health services, and shelter; to construct permanent housing and schools; to restore farming, fishing, and small-business activities; to provide psychological services for traumatized children and adults.

AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT
Distribution Committee
New York
Amount raised: $18.5-million
Amount spent: $9.6-million
Where the money is going: To provide food, water, and temporary shelters; to assist small businesses; and to buy school uniforms and build playgrounds.

INTERNATIONAL RESCUE
Committee
New York
Amount raised: $15.3-million
Amount spent: $10.7-million
Where the money is going: To provide medical care and supplies; efforts to improve water and sanitation systems; to construct health centers and schools; to restore farmland; and to train teachers and health-care workers.

DIRECT RELIEF INTERNATIONAL
Santa Barbara, Calif.
Amount raised: $14.3-million
Amount spent: $9.5-million
Where the money is going: For grants to local medical groups; to build 34 health facilities; to buy 23 ambulances and mobile emergency medical units; to refurbish clinics, buy new medical equipment, and train mental-health workers.

MENNONITE CENTRAL COMMITTEE
Akron, Penn.
Amount raised: $13.9-million
Amount spent: $5.6-million
Where the money is going: For grants to local hospitals; prostheses for amputees; to construct permanent housing, with plans for 250 houses in Indonesia; to provide new and repaired fishing boats and equipment; to restore agricultural land, and to buy 4,500 farm animals.

CHURCH WORLD SERVICE
Elkhart, Ind.
Amount raised: $11.4-million
Amount spent: $7.6-million
Where the money is going: To provide food, water, and medical supplies, as well as temporary and permanent housing; to improve water and sanitation systems; to run agricultural and animal-husbandry workshops.

AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE
New York
Amount raised: $11.1-million
Amount spent: $2.4-million
Where the money is going: To provide food, shelter, and water supplies; to repair and build new housing; to provide tsunami victims with fishing boats, agricultural equipment, interest-free loans, job training, and free legal assistance.

DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA
New York
Amount raised: $8.2-million
Amount spent: $7.7-million
Where the money is going: To provide emergency medical care, mental-health services, counseling, and immunizations. In addition, donations are being used to rehabilitate and operate hospitals and health clinics.

INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS
Santa Monica, Calif.
Amount raised: $6-million
Amount spent: $2-million
Where the money is going: To provide emergency medical care and mental-health services in Indonesia and Sri Lanka; to repair hospitals and clinics; and to train health-care workers.

FOOD FOR THE HUNGRY
Phoenix, Ariz.
Amount raised: $4.4-million
Amount spent: $2.2-million
Where the money is going: To provide food and medical supplies; to pay local workers hired to remove debris and help with construction; to provide aid to small businesses; to restore agricultural lands and replace livestock.

INTERNATIONAL AID
Spring Lake, Mich.
Amount raised: $3.2-million
Amount spent: Not available
Where the money is going: To provide food, water, and medical supplies; to build a facility in Indonesia to repair medical equipment and train people to work in the facility.

BROTHER’S BROTHER FOUNDATION
Pittsburgh
Amount raised: $2.1-million
Amount spent: $1.1-million
Where the money is going: To provide food as well as building and medical supplies and ambulances; to construct schools and repair waters systems.

AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION
New York
Amount raised: $2-million
Amount spent: $350,000
Where the money is going: To provide medical supplies and fishing boats; and to help schools and students.

ACTION AGAINST HUNGER
New York
Amount raised: $1.4-million
Amount spent: $1.3-million
Where the money is going: To provide food and water as well as water- purification systems, sanitation equipment, and farming and fishing equipment.

RELIEF INTERNATIONAL
Los Angeles
Amount raised: $875,000
Amout spent: Not available.
Where the money is going: To provide food, water, medical care, and temporary shelters; to make loans to families and small businesses; to rebuild schools; and to improve water and sanitation systems.