Hello Fellow TOTAs,

You may already be aware that the federal government is planning on matching the donations that Canadians will pledge for the Tsunami crisis.

I believe the deadline is midnight tonight. I know that some of us don't have much but as they say, a little multiplied by each of us is the equivalent to much of what is needed. Organizations are listed below! Also, the link provides you with direct links to the organizations.

Here is some info:
http://www.acdi-cida.gc.ca/cida_ind...d6?OpenDocument

REVISED: Government of Canada to match donations from Canadians to tsunami disaster

(2004-68) News Release
December 30, 2004


Ottawa — The Honourable Aileen Carroll, Minister of International Cooperation, announced today that the Government of Canada will match on a one-to-one basis donations from Canadians to the tsunami relief efforts.

"Canadians have responded with great generosity," said Minister Carroll. "By matching donations, I hope that Canadians will give even more to help the victims of this unprecedented disaster."

The Government will match donations made by individual Canadians to Canadian non-governmental organizations (NGOs) already involved in responding to the disaster. These include the Canadian Red Cross, CARE Canada, OXFAM, World Vision, UNICEF, Doctors Without Borders and Save the Children. Donations will be matched retroactive to December 26, 2004, the date of the earthquake and tsunamis. The program will end following the UN donors' conference on January 11, 2005.

Matching funds will initially be drawn from the allocation of $40 million announced Wednesday by Prime Minister Paul Martin. The matching will be based on proposals submitted by participating NGOs to the international humanitarian assistance section of the Canadian International Development Agency, in accordance with the regular guidelines governing responsive programming in the area of humanitarian assistance. Any additional funds required under the matching policy would be made available from within the fiscal framework. There is no ceiling on the amount of donations the government will match.


* Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA Canada)
* Canadian Centre for International Studies and Cooperation (CECI)
* Canadian Food for the Hungry International
* Canadian Lutheran World Relief
* Canadian Red Cross
* CARE Canada
* Christian Reformed World Relief Committee (CRWRC)
* Development and Peace
* Doctors Without Borders
* FOCUS Humanitarian Assistance Canada (no link available)
* Mennonite Central Commitee Canada
* Oxfam Canada
* Oxfam Quebec (French site only)
* Presbyterian World Service and Development
* Primate's World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF)
* Salvation Army
* Save the Children Canada
* UNICEF Canada
* United Church of Canada
* World Vision Canada
* World University Service of Canada (WUSC)

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what is the relief fund donation up to now???

anyone have total?

I haven't heard.

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heard on Omni yesterday that Canadian Govt is planning on passing a motion that'll allow the Govt to spend upto 400 million dollars for Tsunami Victims....

Way to Go Canada!!!

There is no ceiling on the amount of donations the government will match.

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quote:

PM boosts aid to $425M Canada now 5th largest relief donor, officials say Portion of money targets long-term rebuilding projects SUSAN DELACOURT OTTAWA BUREAU CHIEF OTTAWA - Canada will be spending $425 million over the next five years in relief efforts for the Asian tsunami — more than half of it in aid that's already starting to churn through the ravaged region, the rest of it in long-term rebuilding projects. Prime Minister Paul Martin announced yesterday that Canada's relief contribution would be jumping dramatically, from $80 million previously announced to more than five times that amount. "Make no mistake. Canada is absolutely committed to staying the course in the region where we are today and we will be there tomorrow. We will be there as long as it takes," said Martin, who leaves later this week to visit devastated sites in Sri Lanka, Thailand and India. Government officials boast that this makes Canada the fifth-largest contributor globally as of yesterday, though leading nations such as the United States, Japan, Australia and Germany could come up with more cash as early as today at a major humanitarian-assistance meeting in Geneva. At home, Martin's government also wants to quell fears that this huge outpouring of aid will come at a cost to other international relief operations, which are starting to reappear on the public's radar screen as the immediate shock and attention over the tsunami's damage is starting to fade. The New Democratic Party voiced fears that some of the money now being announced would be simply funds redirected from other international relief efforts. "Canadians want to be reassured that for each dollar they contribute, the federal government will not withdraw its matching dollars from other necessary aid programs already receiving federal funding," said the NDP's foreign affairs critic and former leader Alexa McDonough (Halifax). Until the tsunami struck on Dec. 26, for example, Canada's priorities were leaning toward Africa, particularly the AIDS epidemic there. But government officials insist no other worthy causes are being forgotten. The $160 million in long-term financing announced yesterday will be taken from extra money that was set aside in last year's budget to increase Canada's foreign aid by 8 per cent annually. This was estimated to represent about $248 million each year. So the $160 million will consume about one-sixth of this extra money. PMO officials said the government was being careful to ensure other key aid efforts — in Africa, for instance — weren't crowded out of the long-term picture by this current disaster. The lion's share of the cash outlay announced yesterday — $265 million — goes toward a wide array of humanitarian-aid projects already under way; everything from on-the-ground relief efforts to a moratorium on debt payments by affected countries. The government expects to throw about $150 million into matching the individual contributions Canadians make to aid organizations by today's deadline.

Source : http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/Co...d=1105397412230

the $20 i donated thru my bank (TD) is being matched by both the bank and the Gov't of Canada.. so all in all it turned out to be $60 .. not bad!

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Canadian Gov't has upped the fund to $425 million. In my division, we raised ~5k just this week that will be matched by the Gov't. Our VP announced that CIBC, as a whole, just doubled their donation from 100k to 200k as well.

Someone did make an interesting point on CBC Newsworld this morning, although I didn't catch the whole interview. The problem with this MASSIVE outpouring of help is that other areas will now be even more neglected as people feel they've "done their duty" by donating here.

In Africa alone, MILLIONS die each year from civil war, malaria and AIDS. But no one seems to really care unless there's a natural disaster of some sort?

"Sub-Saharan Africa is the region of the world that is most affected by HIV & AIDS. An estimated 25.4 million people are living with HIV and approximately 3.1 million new infections occurred in 2004. In just the past year the epidemic has claimed the lives of an estimated 2.3 million people in this region. Around 2 million children under 15 are living with HIV and more than twelve million children have been orphaned by AIDS."

http://www.avert.org/aafrica.htm


"Worldwide, there are at least 300 mn (million) acute cases of malaria each year, resulting in more than a million deaths. Around 90 per cent of these deaths occur in Africa, mostly among young children...."

http://www.fightingmalaria.org/news.php?ID=350


"The World Health Organization says that since March, at least 70,000 people in Sudan's western Darfur province have died because of poor conditions in camps for internally displaced people.

This estimate is higher than the 50,000 deaths initially reported by the UN health agency.

WHO says at least 10,000 people a month are dying from disease, malnutrition-related causes and violence in Darfur's squalid camps for homeless people."

http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/natio...rfur041016.html


something to think about. Various organizations needs donations year round...not just when there's an event such as this.

sweet!

I donated $20.


Though I wish we would see more fund raising like this for other natural disasters.

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The fundraiser party at 99 sudbury that I played at on Saturday raised over $10K in a single evening !

over the span of a week, CHUM has already collected close to 4 million dollars from listeners and viewers.

also the owner of Music World has donated 5 million dollars himself. And they showed him on TV and he was this old man that cried as soon as he started talking about the poor people affected by the tsunami.

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Originally posted by Skipper The fundraiser party at 99 sudbury that I played at on Saturday raised over $10K in a single evening !

nice! I was wondering how it went...obviously it went quite well