Home / International / State Exchanges Tools: Save | Print | E-mail | Most Read | Comment
NZ donates $380,000 for China earthquake
Adjust font size:

New Zealand will donate 500,000 NZ dollars (380,000 U.S. dollars) to the International Federation of the Red Cross (IFRC) to assist victims of the Sichuan earthquake in China, Foreign Minister Winston Peters announced on Friday.

"The full scale of this disaster is rapidly emerging, and it is important New Zealand does what it can to assist China to make the most effective response possible to this crisis," Peters said.

The Chinese government has reacted rapidly to the situation, but people in the earthquake-stricken areas will obviously require basic humanitarian supplies such as shelter, water and food in order to survive, he added.

"Utilizing Red Cross channels will ensure our help gets to those most in need, as quickly as possible," Peters said.

New Zealand's contribution will be made by the government's international aid agency, NZAID, via the New Zealand Red Cross.

Current figures suggest around 20,000 people have died, and 25,000 remain buried following the 7.8 magnitude earthquake which struck on Monday. The Chinese government fear the toll could reach50,000.

(Xinhua News Agency May 16, 2008)

Tools: Save | Print | E-mail | Most Read
Comment
Pet Name
Anonymous
China Archives
Related >>
- Cambodia donates $100,000 to China for quake relief
- Hope amid the ruins of China's quake disaster
- Quake survivors evacuated for treatment, shelter
- Traumatized quake survivors to receive psychological intervention
- Emergency funds earmarked for quake-damaged reservoirs
- Finland's torchbearer deeply concerned with quake victims
- Gov't to probe of school collapses in quake
- Official worries over possible post-quake plague
- China accepts quake rescue offers from Russia, S Korea, Singapore
Most Viewed >>
- Myanmar cyclone death toll rises to 38,491
- Chinese, Russian FMs meet on disaster relief, Olympics
- China accepts Japan's offer of emergency quake team
- Chinese, Russian FMs meet on quake disaster relief
- More countries offer aid to quake-hit China
> Korean Nuclear Talks
> Reconstruction of Iraq
> Middle East Peace Process
> Iran Nuclear Issue
> 6th SCO Summit Meeting
Links
- China Development Gateway
- Foreign Ministry
- Network of East Asian Think-Tanks
- China-EU Association
- China-Africa Business Council
- China Foreign Affairs University
- University of International Relations
- Institute of World Economics & Politics
- Institute of Russian, East European & Central Asian Studies
- Institute of West Asian & African Studies
- Institute of Latin American Studies
- Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies
- Institute of Japanese Studies