This portion of my blog was accidentally erased, so I’m not going to try to re-write my former entry; I will just say that I still cannot get my head around this horrendous tragedy, and the least I can do is offer a list of organizations accepting aid in the relief and rebuilding efforts in Southeast Asia.

List of aid agencies that you can contribute to:

American Red Cross
http://www.redcross.org

Care USA
http://www.careusa.org

Direct Relief International
http://www.directrelief.org

International Medical Corps
http://www.imcworldwide.org

International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
http://www.ifrc.org/

American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Raising Funds
http://www.jdc.org

Lutheran World Relief
http://www.lwr.org

MAP International
http://www.map.org

Mercy Corps
http://www.mercycorps.org

Operation USA
http://www.opusa.org

Oxfam America Asia Earthquake Fund
http://www.oxfamamerica.org

Save the Children
http://www.savethechildren.org

US Fund for UNICEF
http://www.unicefusa.org

World Concern
http://www.worldconcern.org

World Vision
http://www.worldvision.org

Contributions directly to the banks through their branches
1) State Bank of India
2) Central Bank of India
3) Union bank of India
4) Dena Bank
5) Syndicate Bank
6) Corporation Bank
7) Bank of India
8) Indian Overseas Bank
9) Punjab National Bank
10) Indian Bank
11) Allahabad Bank
12) Citi Bank
13) Contributions can also be sent through Money Orders with no commission chargeable.

Donate through Greek Orthodox organizations:

Donate now via IOCC to the Tsunami relief efforts:
https://www.iocc.org/giving/giving_earthquake.shtml

IOCC, Partners Step Up Relief Efforts to Tsunami Victims
http://www.goarch.org/en/news/releases/articles/release9098.asp

Indian Organizations:

Indian Red Cross Society,
Red Cross Building,
50 Montieth Road,
Egmore,
Chennai-600008.
Ph : 044-8554548, 8554117 (R) 4980971, 8511711 BB-8554425
Fax : 8586997
Telegram : "SAMARITAN"
email: ircstnb@vsnl.net , web: www.indianredcrosstnb.com
Cheques or DDs should be in favour of "SECRETARY GENERAL, INDIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY, NEW DELHI -
1", payable at New Delhi. (The contributions are exempted under section 80G of the Income Tax Act, 1961. )

RELIEF FOR INDIA
The Times Group (publisher of Indian newspapers such as The Times of India www.timesofindia.com) has a relief fund.

Foreign donors can donate directly as Times
Foundation is registered (Registration No. 231660504) with the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India, under the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA - 1976). Payments can be made online via Mas-ter/Visa/Diners by logging on to http://timesfoundation.indiatimes.com

Non-institutional short term contributions in kind. For instance, plan to collect clothes, food etc and want to send it across directly to the relief teams, here are two organisations that are actively involved and need relief support.
M. Subbu
Tamil Maanila Kattida Thozilalar Sangham (TMKTS)
1, Cross ST (F.F.) Kilpauk Garden,
Chennai-600010
Ph: 044-26478386
Email: msubbu_cwbc@vsnl.net

T. Peter
National Fishworkers Forum
Velankanny Junction, Valiathura
Vallakadavu P.O.
Trivandrum - 695008
Ph: 0471-2501376/2505216
Email: nff@vsnl.com

Jesurathinam, SNEHA, Nagapattinam
Tel: 04365-222907, 240622
These organisations are credible and are using local volunteer base

Indian Express Citizen's Relief Fund
If you are from Mumbai you can send Cheques.
If you are outside mumbai you can send demand drafts in favour of "Indian Express Citizen's
Relief Fund" to following address,
The Indian Express,
3/50, Lalbag Industrial Estate,
Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Road,
Lalbag, Mumbai - 400 012

The Hindu Relief Fund" from Hindu group of publications
A relief fund has specially been set up to receive contributions, which may be sent as cheques or drafts payable to "The Hindu Relief Fund."
Send to:
Kasturi Buildings
859 Anna Salai
Chennai 600 002
INDIA
Make the contribution online at http://pay.hindu.com/thrfpay/thrfpay.jsp

T.N. Chief Minister's Public Relief Fund.

The Contribution may be sent either by cash or cheque or Demand Draft drawn in favour of 'CHIEF
MINISTER'S PUBLIC RELIEF FUND' addressed to :
The Joint Secretary to Government and Treasurer,
Chief Minister's Public Relief Fund,
Finance Department,
Secretariat,
Chennai-600 009.

HOPE - the NDTV Tsunami Relief Fund
Send donations to help those affected by yesterday's disaster through NDTV's trust fund, The Hope
Trust.
Donations can be made to: "HOPE - Tsunami Relief Fund" and sent to:
The Company Secretary
W17, Greater Kailash - 1
New Delhi
INDIA

AIDINDIA
Address:
Old no. 132, New 242, Avvai Shanmugam Salai, Gopalapuram, Chennai - 600 086
Contacts:

T.Ramakrishnan, Chapter co-ordinator (A)
E-mail: ramkey_t@yahoo.com
Telephone: +91-44-2483 2256

Vibha Ravindran, Projects Co-ordinator (B)
E-mail: vibha_ravindran@rediffmail.com
Telephone: +91-98402 63275

Medical Aid on behalf of Ranbaxy. Whoever is willing to be a part of this effort,
Apurva can be contacted at:
Apurva Chamari
Manager- Marketing,
Ranbaxy Australasia Pty. Ltd,
13th Floor, Devika Towers , Nehru Place , New Delhi-19.
Tel:+ 91 11 26286624 (D) ,9811332259 (M) Fax: 26222780
apurva.chamaria@ranbaxy.com

PM's Relief Fund
The Prime Minister's Office,
South block,
New Delhi,
India - 110001"

Control Room Helpline Numbers

India's External Affairs Ministry has set up control rooms in Delhi besides Thailand, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Maldives, Singapore and Malaysia to provide assistance to Indians in the tidal wave-hit areas.

The Delhi control room will be headed by Additional Secretary Talmiz Ahmed.
The telephone numbers are:
00-91-23011849/23382248. E-mail: asad@mea.gov.in & psasad@mea.gov.in
For Maldives, you can bank in money to two special bank accounts created for the tsunami relief efforts.

Name of the Accounts:
Ministry of Finance and Treasury – Disaster Relief Fund

Bank:
Bank of Maldives PLC,
Male’, Republic of Maldives

Bank SWIFT Code:
MALBMVMV

Account numbers:
7701 – 147 900 – 002 (Foreign Currency)
7701 – 147 900 – 001 (Local Currency)

Find out more on the President's website:
http://www.presidencymaldives.gov.mv/v3/pages/News.php3?NewsID=2713

The Southeast Asia Earthquake and Tsunami Blog
http://tsunamihelp.blogspot.com

For information on the effect of the Tsunami on Thailand, unidentified victims in Thailand, and other news sources:

OneThailand.com provides information, resources and other links to tsunami caused by a 9.0 earthquake near Sumatra which devastated southern Thailand on Dec. 26, 2004. Please bookmark this page and point your family and friends to the site in order to get quick information on this disaster.

Additionally, this might be of use:

The Charity Navigator: Your Guide to Intelligent Giving
http://www.charitynavigator.org/

I obtained much of this information on this website.