11-01-2005 Other site Asia disaster: additional (non-Red Cross) sites to help locate family members Many sites are offering help for people trying to locate relatives following
the earthquake and tsunamis that devastated coastal regions of Asia on 26
December. Links organized according to their sources: governmental, non-governmental organizations, press and media, individual websites, forums, blogs and wiki portals The ICRC has put together a list of some sites that it has found by searching the web; however, under no circumstances can it endorse claims made by these sites or their methods, or guarantee their success. The ICRC's sole aim is to help families by providing additional search tools. Foreign and Commonwealth Office: 020 7008 0000, British Embassy emergency office, Phuket, Thailand: 00 66 76 264 473/4/5 and 00 66 76 264 484 France Crisis cell "Raz de marée en Asie", searching for French people and hot line number From France 0 800 174 174 From abroad: 00 33 1 45 50 34 60: Sweden Emergency numbers and contact for Swedes in S.E.Asia Foreign office Phone: 08-405 41 00 or 08-405 10 00 (Government switchboard), Switzerland Hot line DFAE (++41 31 325 33 33) for families and relatives. Australia Consular Assistance : Hotline: 1800 002 214 for friends and relatives missing NGO sources Locators online (Turkey), with links to missing persons lists. Statisticson 03.101.05: STATISTICS: Number of requests: 1689 Number Found: 76 Pending: 1613 National Next of Kin registry (USA) , Individual website, forum, blog, wiki: Tsunamilhelp, the South East Asia Earthquake and Tsunami, the biggest blog that works as a portal (updates, needs, missing list, etc..) , Tsunami missing people, searches by country or nationality, Blog in Portuguese. With picture of wounded unaccompanied children, I Am Alive Alliance, IAAA The IAA system (I Am Alive system) is a disaster victims information registration and retrieval system (english, japanese). Based in Japan. Tsunami Forum, Forum with post, Forum Lonely Planet, Forum with post, Portal: Tsunami Help Missing & Found – Wikinews, List of other sites about missing people,
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