LeeAnne:

Your company, Amgen, is displaying great corporate responsibility in this donation, and matching donations. Thank you for reporting this. It is good to hear of a corporation doing some good for mankind these days, and I hope you can find a way to convey to your management what a great thing they are doing.

jhp:

Thanks for your kind words. Actually, we are not ordinarily much in the way of philanthropists. But the magnatude of this disaster has truly touched us, as I hope it does with many. With the confusion in the area, and the known death toll standing at 155,000, few doubt that it will end at less than 250,000. One hundred times greater than Pearl Harbor. Seventy two times greater than 9/11. and 1,480 times greater than the Okla. City bombing. And, this has happened in countries without the internal economic infrastructure to provide the needed help.

joannapv:

I admire your chruch for raising $20,000 for this cause! As you mention your priest, I assume your church is Roman Catholic (though it could be Episcopalian or Orthodox). In any event, Catholic Charities has been mentioned by a number of sources (not church related) as a good place to donate for relief in this area. And, there are a number of other good charities as well. Regardless of whatever faith you church is, God bless it and its members.

Thanks,
Richard

PS: I don't know how to get rid of my "tag line" for these more serious posts. So just read it as meaning that there is an end to these problems somewhere.