CNN reports that "The United Nations says $100 million is urgently needed to help survivors of Indonesia earthquake, as the injured and bereaved marked the Islamic day of prayer amid the rubble of their homes."
The international relief effort to help the victims of Saturday's earth quake in Indonesia got off to an unusually fast start, but fundraising is now progressing slowly.
Thankfully, reports The New York Times, many nonprofit groups already had staff and supplies in Indonesia from the tsunami that struck in the final days of 2004. So they merely had to shift those resources to Yogyakarta, the site of the earthquake.
Also, the Indonesian government and military, as well as several relief groups, had been preparing for the potential eruption of Mount Merapi when the earthquake hit and so were able to use that advance planning to address a different emergency, relief workers said.
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