Appeal for Earthquake Victims: PLEASE DONATE TODAY

If you can, please make a donation.......

DCAA Announcement:

Funds Raised for Quake Relief

Our community has come together once again! We have raised over $30,000.

Yesterday, we wired out $20,000 to Red Cross Society of China.

We plan to send another wire early next week. We are grateful to everybody, including many of our school students, who has made donation. We thank you for raising fund in the companies you work.
The dead toll has risen to over 50,000. Reporters now speculate that up to 80,000 people could be dead. More than 30,000 are still missing. More than 250,000 were injured. More than 5 million people are homeless.

The need for our help continues to increase.

Another fund raiser has been planned for the next Saturday afternoon, 5/31, 1-5 PM, at Chinese American Community Center.

Free ice cream and Italian ice will be served. Please invite your colleagues, neighbors and friends...

Please send your tax deductible donations to:

EARTHQUAKE RELIEF: DCAA, PO Box 309, Hockessin DE 19707.

You can also send your donations directly to American Red Cross.

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Did you know that four of China’s most cherished World Heritage sites were affected by the earthquake that struck on May 12? One very important site is the Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries, home to 30% of the world’s remaining endangered giant pandas.

Aid teams working in the area need help to be most effective in their efforts to save the pandas and restore access to the sites. Check out the online campaign that Friends of World Heritage, a grassroots initiative created by the United Nations Foundation with Expedia, Inc. (NASDAQ: EXPE) and UNESCO’s World Heritage Centre, has created to raise awareness and funds to help.

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