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Date Posted: 09/22/05 11:53:40am
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's message, "Re: "Ante up for America" http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=3241" on 09/22/05 9:12:36am
sorry abt that...i didn't realize it was on the restricted part of the site...it's free but still you have to fill in the blanks and who needs another website to read?
let's see how this copy/paste works from their nice chart on the website:::::::::::::::::::
Ante up for America
Page 1 of 1
Posted September 2005
America’s friends abroad, and even some of its foes, have responded to the horrific destruction to the Gulf Coast in the wake of Hurricane Katrina by pledging money and sending supplies to assist the recovery effort. Qatar, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates lead the pack, offering $100 million each. A touching $25,000 was pledged by tsunami-ravaged Sri Lanka. And Iran offered 20 million barrels of oil—if the United States lifts its sanctions. FP offers a complete breakdown of the kind (and sometimes surprising) generosity of more than 50 countries around the world.
Afghanistan $ 100,000
Albania Pledged $ 300,000
Argentina 6 disaster relief & rescue coordinators
Armenia $ 200,000
Australia $ 7.6 million
Austria Water pumps, plastic sheets, cots; an Austrian Red Cross team is in Houston to set up a communication network
Azerbaijan $ 500,000
Bahamas $ 50,000 for victims Additional aid to Bahamian citizens in stricken areas
Bahrain $ 5 million
Bangladesh $ 1 million
Belgium Medical and logistics support, civil engineering, diving teams, pumps, generators
Bosnia and Herzegovina Pledged $ 6,414
Britain 400,000 ready-to-eat meals, medical experts, search-and-rescue gear, marine engineers, high-volume pumps
Cambodia Pledged $ 20,000
Canada Pledged $5 million to Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund 3 Navy ships, a Coast Guard vessel, several Sea King helicopters, and about 1,000 personnel, including divers to help clear waterways and inspect damaged levees.
Chile Pledged sheets and blankets, diapers, and bandages
China $ 5.1 million to survivors 1000 tents, 600 generators, bedsheets
Colombia Offered rescue and paramedic teams
Cuba 1,100 doctors
Cyprus $ 50,000
Czech Republic 24,000 blankets, 600 camp beds, 14 large tents, rescue teams, a field hospital, pumps and water processing equipment, as well as transport planes
Denmark 50,000 blankets, 3,500 first-aid kits, water purification units, and personnel
Djibouti $ 50,000
Dominica Police to help patrol disaster zone
Dominican Republic $ 50,000 Offered rescue workers, doctors, and nurses
El Salvador 100 Army troops, including medical personnel, and engineers
Equitorial Guinea $ 1.5 million
Finland 3 logistics specialists and a search-and-rescue team, offered sheets, tarps, first-aid kits, and pillow covers
France Pledged $1 million in private donations 300 tents, 980 cots, 60 generators, 3 water purification units, 30 water pumps, offered aircraft and 2 ships with helicopters, disaster unit with 20 soldiers, civil defense detachment of 35 people
Gabon $ 500,000
Germany 70,000 meals, medical supplies, vaccination teams, water purification equipment, medical evacuation aircraft, and crisis management experts
Greece 2 cruise ships to house homeless, 2,000 face and body towels, relief supplies, and rescue crews
Georgia $ 50,000
Guatemala 80 specialists from Army, health, and interior departments
Honduras 134-member medical and rescue brigade; mayor of capital, Tengucigalpa, offers a similar group
Hungary $ 5,000
Iceland Pledged $ 500,000 to Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund
India $ 5 million 22-ton shipment of supplies (tarps, blankets, personal-hygiene kits and sheets), medical teams with experience in waterborne diseases, offer to set up water purification plants
Indonesia Pledged $ 25,000 Medical team of 45 doctors and 155 other staff, 10,000 blankets
Iraq $ 1 million
Ireland $ 1 million
Israel Sending medical team, offering hundreds of doctors, trauma experts, and other medical staff, as well as a field hospital
Italy 300 cots, 300 blankets, 600 sheets, a water pump, 6 life rafts, 11,200 chlorine tablets, first-aid kits, and baby food
Japan $ 200,000 cash, $ 1.5 million in private donations
Kenya $ 100,000 to the Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund
Kosovo $ 500,000
Kuwait $ 100 million $ 400 million in oil
Latvia A disaster-relief team, financial aid, blankets, bottled water
Liberia Pledged $ 100,000
Lithuania Pledged EURO 10,000 Rescue teams, meals, building materials
Luxembourg 2 jeeps, 1,000 cots, 2,000 blankets
Malaysia $ 1 million
Maldives $ 25,000
Marshall Islands $ 10,000
Mauritania $ 200,000 from the American-Mauritanian Business Council
Mexico Government set up bank accounts to collect donations, which reached $ 1 million so far 45 truckloads of supplies, health brigades, water-treatment plants, mobile kitchens with capacity to feed 7,000 people a day, search-and-rescue team, Navy ship carrying food, amphibious vehicles, helicopters, and a medical team.
Mongolia Pledged $ 50,000
Morocco Pledged $ 500,000
Nepal Pledged $ 25,000
The Netherlands A frigate with water, medicine, helicopters, and beds; offered 3 giant water pumps, expertise in dike and water engineering, and forensic identification help
New Zealand $ 1.4 million Offered to send an urban search-and-rescue team, a disaster vistim identification team, or recovery personnel
Nicaragua Flooding and sanitation experts
Nigeria Pledged $ 1 million
Norway $ 1.54 million 12,000 blankets, Navy divers, first-aid kits
Organization of Amercan States $ 25,000
Palau Pledged $ 50,000, another $ 50,000 from donor drive
Pakistan $ 1 million Doctors and paramedics
Panama nearly 120,000 pounds of bananas for hurricane victims
Papua New Guinea $ 10,000
Peru 80 to 100 doctors with expertise in tropical diseases and disasters; U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld requested Peru instead send medical supplies;
Peru will try to comply.
The Philippines Philippine Red Cross donating $ 25,000 Government offers 25-person relief team
Portugal Lending 2 percent of its strategic oil reserve, equivalent to 500,000 barrels of oil
Qatar Pledged $ 100 million in humanitarian assistance
Romania 2 teams of medical experts, tents
Russia 3 transport planes with generators, food, tents, tents, blankets, drinking water, and medical supplies.
Samoa Pledged $ 10,000
Sao Tome and Principe Pledged $ 18,000
Saudi Arabia Pledged $5 million from Aramco, $250,000 from Agfund Offers to increase oil production to replace
shortfalls caused by Katrina
Singapore 3 CH-47 transport helicopters and 38 soldiers
Slovak Republic Water purification gear, cots, water, 25,000 blankets, 500 camp beds, 1,000 first-aid kits, more than 20,000 fluid ounces of liquid soap
Slovenia 780 blankets, 250 camp beds, 250 mattresses, 2,000 first-aid kits
South Korea $ 30 mllion in government and civilian assistance Sending search team and relief supplies
Spain Firefighters and equipment, medical staff, search-and-rescue expertise, tents, ctos, blankets, water treatment units, heating equipment, meals, water, generators
Sri Lanka $ 25,000
Sweden Telecommunication equipment and technicians, first-aid kits, blankets, meals, generators, plastic sheeting, 2 water purification units and instructors, aircraft ready for immediate employment
Switzerland Blankets, 50 tons of aid supplies, 2 logistics experts from the Swiss agency for Development and Cooperation, 2 doctors and 2 water specialists
Taiwan $ 2 million Medical Supplies
Thailand At least 60 doctors and nurses, supplies of rice
Trinidad Local Red Cross sending 10-15 relief workers
Tunisia Blankets, sheets, relief supplies
Uruguay 2 mobile water purification units and 2 tons of powdered milk
United Arab Emirates $ 100 million Tents, clothing, and food
Uganda Pledged $ 200,000
Ukraine Pledged $ 2 million covering transport for Dutch water pumps
Venezuela Pledged up to $ 1 million
Vietnam $ 100,000
Yemen $ 100,000
Sources: Department of State, Associated Press, www.reliefweb.int
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