Apoyo Para Chile: Como Pueden Ayudar a Chile: Donen a La Cruz Roja Chilena. Miren Lo Que Necesitan Alli

Siguiente esta una lista de articulos que la Cruz Roja Chilena necesita de la comunidad internacional:

"....Nuestra Institución solicita el apoyo de la comunidad a través de diferentes donaciones que irán en beneficio de los damnificados por la catástrofe. Los aportes en dinero se recibirán exclusivamente en la cuenta del Banco Estado Nº 362883, a nombre Cruz Roja Chilena Rut: 70.512.100-1 e-mail: finanzas@cruzroja.cl.

A nivel internacional, los aportes monetarios se canalizaran a través de la Cruz Roja de cada país, quienes han abierto ya, cuentas bancarias para los depósitos, que se transferirán a la brevedad a la Cruz Roja Chilena.

En este momento la comunidad puede donar lo siguiente:

Artículos de aseo:
Jabón de tocador
Shampoo
Desodorante
Pasta dental
Cepillos de dientes
Papel higiénico
Frazadas nuevas
Pañales..."

http://www.cruzroja.cl/noticias/noticia_414.php

Chile's Death Toll is Rising, More than 800 Thus Far: Complete Destruction of Constitucion, Talca, Talcahuano, Curico, Cauquenes and More

Tourists, retirees and vacationers staying at coastal village hotels and homes had no time to run to higher grounds.  Chilean authorities are pointing fingers at Navy for not sounding sirens to alert the population.  The huge waves slammed into homes, businesses, Summer vacationers, carried boats into streets, brought tons of debris all over town.  Animals got stranded on top of homes just like Katrina did to New Orleans.  The waves that destroyed homes took adults as well as young people, residents of these coastal villages.  Babies, women and men were heard crying as they got slammed against freight and other hard objects and tons of debris from all the destroyed infrastructures.  Animals such as dogs, cats, chickens, cows, donkeys, horses were passing by.  Every living thing was surprised by the ferociousness of the waves and the large-scale destruction.

Hundreds of people are homeless and have no food and water.  Dehydration will be a problem if the authorities do not act quickly or do not accept international help.  Chile's wealth will make a difference in the days ahead.  Until everybody can feel safe, many will suffer and go without.......

The 40 retirees enjoying summer vacation at a seaside campground nestled under pine trees knew they had to move fast after Chile's powerful earthquake struck.
They didn't make it. The tsunami came in three waves, surging 200 meters (yards) into this Pacific Ocean resort town and dragging away the bus they'd piled into, hoping to get to high ground. Most of those inside were tourists, and only five of their bodies had been found by Monday, firefighters and witnesses said.
Pelluhue's horror underscored the destruction wrought by Saturday's pre-dawn 8.8-magnitude quake and the tsunami that ravaged communities along Chile's south-central coast — those closest to the quake's epicenter. Chile's death toll reached 723, and most died in the wine-growing Maule region that includes Pelluhue.
Survivors here found about 20 bodies, and an estimated 300 homes were destroyed. Most residents were aware of the tsunami threat; street signs pointed to the nearest tsunami evacuation route. The ruins of homes, television sets, clothes, dishwaters and dead fish cover the town's black sand beaches.
"We ran through the highest part of town, yelling, 'Get out of your homes!'" said Claudio Escalona, 43, who fled his home near the campground with his wife and daughters, ages 4 and 6. "About 20 minutes later came three waves, two of them huge, about 6 meters (18 feet) each, and a third even bigger. That one went into everything."
"You could hear the screams of children, women, everyone," Escalona said. "There were the screams, and then a tremendous silence."
Destruction is widespread and food scarce all along the coast — in towns like Talca and Cauquenes, Curico and San Javier. In Curanipe, the local church served as a morgue. In Cauquenes, people quickly buried their dead because the funeral home had no electricity.
President Michelle Bachelet said authorities were flying hundreds of tons of food, water and other basics into the region.
After the quake rocked the gritty port town of Talcahuano, Marioli Gatica and her extended family huddled in a circle on the floor of their seaside wooden home, listening to the radio by a lantern's light.
They heard firefighters urging citizens to stay calm and stay inside. They heard nothing about a tsunami — until it slammed into their house with an unearthly roar. Gatica's house exploded with water. The family was swept below the surface, swirling amid loose ship containers and other heavy debris that smashed buildings into oblivion all around them.
"We were sitting there one moment and the next I looked up into the water and saw cables and furniture floating," Gatica said.
Two of the giant containers crushed Gatica's home. A third grounded between the ocean and where she floated, keeping the retreating tsunami from dragging her and other relatives out to sea. Her 11-year-old daughter, Ninoska Elgueta, clung to a tree as the wave retreated.
All the family survived except Gatica's 76-year-old mother, Nery Valdebenito, Gatica said. "I think my mother is trapped beneath" the house.
Firefighters with search dogs examined the ruins of her home. The group leader drew his finger across his neck: No one alive there.
Close to 80 percent of Talcahuano's 180,000 people are homeless, with 10,000 homes uninhabitable and hundreds more destroyed, Mayor Gaston Saavedra said.
"The port is destroyed. The streets, collapsed. City buildings, destroyed," Saavedra said.
In Concepcion, the biggest city near the epicenter, rescuers drilled through thick concrete to look for survivors trapped inside a toppled 70-unit apartment building. Firefighters had pulled 25 survivors and nine bodies from the structure

Epicenter at Parral and Talca's Photos

Imagenes, Fotos del Terremoto: Chile Needs Your Help: Chile Necesita Su Ayuda

Concepcion, Chile Info

Concepción's history of earthquakes may end up being her salvation. Because of a previous earthquake, engineers and local authorities have been stressing the needs to build quake resistant buildings in the major towns. However, due to lack of money, many Chileans were not able to abide by the building codes. Poor indigenous people built adobe, mud homes which are destroyed by the massive quake.


"Concepción was a military outpost on the border between the Spanish controlled areas of what was then a portion of the Viceroyalty of Peru, and the Mapuche nation, a fierce ethnic group that was not brought under Chilean control until the 1870's. Even today there is an uneasy situation as the Mapuche Indians struggle to take back the forests.Concepción did not have an easy early history. Subject to Mapuche raids and earthquakes, the city was moved several times to its present location. In spite of its precarious situation, Concepción, familiarly called Conce, held a vital position in early Chilean history. It was the site of the Real Audiencia, the most important government organization during Spanish colonial times and it was from here that Spanish forces attempted to subdue the independence efforts.Due to earthquakes, the city has been rebuilt at various times. You won't see colonial buildings clustered around a central plaza, but you will see a modern city and port supported by the coal, steel, petrol-chemical, and fishing industries. Associated with the nearby port of Talcahuano, Conce is a vital part of the Lake Region. The people of Concepción are proud of their role in Chile's political, economic and cultural growth....."

Como Pueden Ayudar a Chile Despues del Terremoto: How You Can Help Post-quake Chile

The following organizations are accepting SMS donations in the US only:

* SMS text “CHILE” to 25383 to donate $10 to Habitat for Humanity
* SMS text “CHILE” to 20222 to donate $10 to World Vision
* SMS text “REBUILD” to 50555 to donate $10 to Operation USA
* SMS text “YOUTH” to 20222 to donate $10 to UNICEF

Estas organisaciones acceptan dinero a traves de SMS. Favor de darles dinero para las victimas del terremoto de Chile!