China Earthquake, Qinghai Relief: How You Can Help

China's Qinghai province -- an area bordering Tibet -- was hit by a 7.1 earthquake early Wednesday morning. Three-hundred deaths have been blamed on the quake, with considerable damage and injuries also reported in the area. Ninety percent of the buildings in Golmud have been destroyed.

Nonprofit, non-governmental groups are now arriving in the area to help with relief, and some have already released calls for aid. Here's how you can help:

HuffPost Impact is continuing to monitor the efforts of relief organizations in China and will update this page as more information is received.

•Members of the Tibetan Village Project have flown in from Chengdu to coordinate the efforts of local NGOs. Their work will promote sustainable reconstruction of the area and provide aid to any schools that have been affected in Qinghai. Volunteer in America or even coordinate a trip to Tibet. You can also make a financial contribution online.

•Mercy Corps is on the ground in Qinghai province and has set up a China Earthquake Fund, to be used for recovery efforts after the damage is fully assessed.

•According to International Medical Corps' Margaret Aguirre, the emergency medical care organization is assessing the situation and is prepared to deploy their team from Indonesia. They are also holding, based on potential requests from the Chinese government. Donate to International Medical Corps now and stay tuned for updates on their response to the earthquake in China.

• World Vision is sending a team to determine the damage and aid needed in Qinghai. With a donation you can help provide immediate aid like food, water purification tablets, storage containers, cooking supplies, shelter, blankets and hygiene products to those in the area.

• UNICEF asks for your aid in China. Money is urgently needed to provide safe drinking water, shelter and medical supplies. According to UNICEF, 20 children remain buried under debris -- help UNICEF provide care to the children who need it most. To donate, visit: www.unicefusa.org or call 1-800-4UNICEF.

• Direct Relief is teaming up with its partners in Tibet and China to assess what is needed. They estimate that tens of thousands of people are injured and will be needing their help. Direct Relief will sponsor its partners in Tibet with medical materials. They will also directly help One Heart, a mother and child health organization based in Tibet and also the Amitabha Foundation that focuses on mother, child and general health for Tibetan nomads.

• Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is collecting donations to send a three-person team to assess the immediate medical, psychological and non-medical needs of earthquake survivors.

• AmeriCares is sending response teams to China. They are organizing medical supplies and other humanitarian aid. AmeriCares Emergency Response Manager is going to Qinghai to speak with local relief workers to assess the immediate needs.

• Church World Service (CWS) Emergency Response Program reports that 80 percent of homes in the Quinghai Province have collapsed -- what is needed most at this time is shelter, food and safe drinking water. CWS will support efforts made by the Amity Foundation who has close ties to local partners in China. To help:

1. Send contributions to your denomination or to Church World Service, P.O. Box 968, Elkhart, IN, 46515.


2. Call the CWS Hotline, [phone].


3. Call CWS Emergency Response Program special contacts: [phone]


4. Email the program director at [e-mail]

•Machik is an organization that educates children and creates new work opportunities in Tibetan communities. They have mobilized their resources to help bring relief to earthquake victims. You can read their appeal for aid or donate directly.

•GoChengdoo has a list of Chinese-based organizations accepting donations. If you live in Asia, you may consider donating directly to one of these relief groups.

•Give through the Give2Asia 2010 Qinghai Earthquake Fund. They've partnered with the China Charity Federation to provide relief and support recovery for local communities in the future.

Comments

[yefei1982]

03:16 AM on 04/24/2010

Chinese television stations to raise money to 320000000 USD finally, there is no U.S. corporate contributions.

[yefei1982]

11:14 PM on 04/14/2010

"Water and food can meet the two days, but not enough tents and medicines." Last night, Yushu Prefecture earthquake rescue headquarters staff said, as local temperatures below freezing at night, in addition to much-needed tents, medicines, large-scale excavation equipment, also need warm bedding and other living materials used.

[yefei1982]

11:00 PM on 04/14/2010

Ended at 6:00 p.m. on the April 14, hit the aftershocks were recorded a total of 606 times, of which more than 4.0 4. In the aftershock, China Earthquake Administration of Qinghai-site emergency response team and the Seismological Bureau of Yushu Secretary had arrived at 18 o'clock meet to discuss the next action.
19 am, Qinghai major disaster emergency rescue teams first reinforcements arrived from State Road 214, Yushu disaster. Meanwhile, the third air force reinforcements have arrived in Yushu airport. Deadline 19:40, Qinghai Province has been a major disaster emergency rescue team of 139 officers and men, 9 rescue vehicles, and carrying two rescue dogs and rescue equipment have been put to the intense relief work.
Deadline 17:55, Yushu in Qinghai Fire Brigade officers and men of a total detachment rescue, evacuation of 180 people trapped.
Gansu, Guangdong, Sichuan, Yushu Fire Brigade to reinforce the 720 soldiers hit will be this evening arrived in Xining.

[yefei1982]

10:57 PM on 04/14/2010

Yushu in Qinghai Province earthquake caused 589 people were killed and 10 people need rehousing

[shmoonie]

09:51 PM on 04/14/2010

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=1&ved=0CAgQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fearthquake.usgs.gov%2Flearn%2Ffacts.php&ei=HW7GS8T_IZTUsAPIoc36Dw&usg=AFQjCNHoRfYR-oEZ2-BQk9j8ILU_Y6Iw-Q&sig2=hMFytZ91xdVbeSJwxM16bg

This site is from the USGS and explains that in any given year there are about 500,000 earthquakes. Many not felt but about a hundred are. Its geology folks not armageddon or 2012.

[yefei1982]

10:50 PM on 04/14/2010

I am a Chinese, I want to tell you that the frequent disasters in China this year, large dust storms, April snow, earthquake, need good experts to China to help!

[BigBrickHouse]

09:27 PM on 04/14/2010

I'm completely out of "disposable income". Have been for years. If I had any extra money to give, it would go to Americans in need. I agree with ZiloRS that people are going to start getting fatigued with all the requests for donations recently. I look around and ask where does it end? I gave to Hati and I'm done for the year. Anything else will be local.

[keramos]

10:59 PM on 04/14/2010

There is enough of our money there already. The day I see the Chinese acting humanely towards their own people and towards the rest of the world in general is the day I'll consider donating money or any other type of support. Well, I would consider sending them the entire RNC and every MBA that has been inflicted upon us the last thirty years. Oh, and boy George the shrub, too.

[Chinalover]

12:07 PM on 04/15/2010

China has one of ,if not the best, emergency preparedness teams in the world. They are on site and enroute to the Quake zone. They are there to help and save people. Is that humane enough for you? China helps countries all over the world with loans, technology transfers, infrastructure construction, energy development, and many other projects. Your comment shows that you have exposed yourself solely to US activist kool-aid. If you are that biased against people because they are Chinese, thanks, but keep your money. We will somehow muddle through without you.

[Chinalover]

08:20 PM on 04/15/2010

China has one of ,if not the best, emergency preparedness teams in the world. They are on site and enroute to the Quake zone. They are there to help and save people. Is that humane enough for you? China helps countries all over the world with loans, technology transfers, infrastructure construction, energy development, and many other projects. Your comment shows that you have exposed yourself solely to US activist kool-aid.

[fayted]

06:53 PM on 04/14/2010

In the end of time there will be an earthquake after another, and the human inperfect system will colapse, as we have been wittnesen for the last decade, it will only get worse, you can already see what is happening with religion and the greed of mankind. GOD help us all.

[GrownupStewie]

06:35 PM on 04/14/2010

china has a 500 billion dollar surplus....i would rather die then give money to help them....

I didnt see much chinese help with katrina..


and once again...your asking US FOR HELP!?!? LMAO how dare you...

[jamesharper]

08:06 PM on 04/14/2010

Actually you are mistaken Stewie. China donated millions of dollars to Katrina relief efforts in addition to emergency supplies, including 1,000 tents, 600 generators, bed sheets, immediately for disaster relief. China also offered to send medical care and rescue workers if they were needed. This aid package consisting of 104 tons of supplies arrived in Little Rock, Arkansas and was later chartered into New Orleans.

However, it great to see when there is a human tragedy on the other side of the world, you can only think of yourself and not spare a dime.

[Chinalover]

09:09 PM on 04/14/2010

Your insular, ill informed arrogance is breathtaking!

[CampCalifornia]

06:09 PM on 04/14/2010

China gets enough US dollars. They have the money. Let them take care of their own just like here in the US. In the US if there is calamaity does any other nation help us....hell no, so why should we help China, they aren't poor just communist.?

[Chinalover]

09:03 PM on 04/14/2010

During Hurricane Katrina, when the US government sat without action for more than three days, Cuba offered doctors and emergency medical supplies. This offer was arrogantly refused by the US government.

[honeydew419]

05:30 PM on 04/14/2010

I think it's great that Huff Post readers want to help out tragedies in other countries, but are you aware of the flooding we just had in Rhode Island? President Obama declared it a federal disaster. A lot of Rhode Islanders lost their businesses and homes to this flood, and this is a state already beleaguered by high unemployment. How about a fundraiser for us? Show us a little love. Think globally but act locally.

[Jamie J Delman]

05:22 PM on 04/14/2010

Please tell your TV stations, radios, newspapers that the earthquake was in Kham Keykudo in Yushu Tibetan autonomous prefecture, It is NOT China.

[Chinalover]

05:45 PM on 04/14/2010

Tibet is, was, and always will be a province of China. You can take that to the bank!

[dadawa]

01:55 PM on 04/16/2010

This is what your communist dog eaters always saying. Tibet is a free country which you communist had occupied. One day your ugly red flag will be burn into ashes in Tibet. LONG LIVE TIBET and down with dog eater HU Ji To,

[yefei1982]

11:05 PM on 04/14/2010

IT IS CHINA````` That's the same language, why not in China, I hope you understand more about Chinese history

[Camis]

03:05 PM on 04/14/2010

if you want to help through a reliable organization, go to the Website of the Tibetan Village Project

http://tibetanvillageproject.org

The Tibetan Village Project is a non-profit and non-political organization dedicated to alleviating poverty in Tibet through healthcare, education and other sustainable development projects that empower Tibetans to live self-sufficient lives.

They have geared up to help. I lost someone in this, it is not a distant mystic land.

[devildog21]

02:31 PM on 04/14/2010

Is it just me, or does there seem to be a proliferation of serious quakes recently? Prelude to 2012?

[ZiloRS]

03:29 PM on 04/14/2010

It's not just you. I don't know. Maybe we're just noticing them more now after Haiti. I don't want to sound rude, but people are going to get fatigued caring about all of these disasters so close together. AND when money is tight anyway. I don't think they're going to collect much money for this.

[devildog21]

04:34 PM on 04/14/2010

Not rude, just a truth. I had the same thought when I saw this. Difference is, China isn't dirt poor like Haiti, so they shouldn't need as much financial assistance.

[juicyhopfrog]

04:37 PM on 04/14/2010

I personally don't think it has anything to do with 2012 stuff, mainly because i don't buy into prophesy. But it does stand to reason that large quakes could trigger other quakes on shaky fault lines. Either way, it's a rough time for a lot of people.

[devildog21]

05:29 PM on 04/14/2010

The 2012 reference was more intended as a joke, but it does seem like there are a lot of big temblors happening in closer proximity to each other than I can ever remember. Seismologists have said that there is no geologic connection, but the reality is, we really know very little about the world we live on.