1) American Red Cross
A nice streamlined site allowing you to make a financial contribution, with additional information about the American Red Cross. A comforting tally box shows how many people have already made donations, and the total of all donations made so far. A nice way to reaffirm some faith in humanity. There are also links to help you find out about blood or tissue donation.
2) The Salvation Army
The Salvation Army also has a streamlined site allowing you to make a financial contribution to the relief efforts, also with the nice tally of donations received so far.
3) The United Way
You can also make contributions to the United Way to assist in relief efforts. Many of the major US corporations are making their donations public here; you can see a list of them if you scroll down. While you and I might not be able to match Microsoft’s $10 million donation, the list does put a human and compassionate face on our corporate neighbors. The United Way is also sponsoring something called the September 11th Fund, specifically targeted towards dealing with the events of that day.
4) Fire Fighters of New York
It is estimated that over 350 New York firefighters were killed in the line of duty when the World Trade Center Towers collapsed. The International Association of Firefighters has set up a nice web site where you can make a donation to support the families of those NY Firefighters. They also have the tally format, showing you the numbers and amounts of donations received so far.
5) Helping.Org
This web-based organization provides a nice starting point to link into many of the other organizations already listed. There is even a link just for residents of the United Kingdom. They include information on how you can help, how to get in touch with missing loved ones, and how to cope.
6) New York State World Trade Center Relief Fund
This site is organized through the office of the Governor of New York, with additional links to New York sites. There is information for how to donate to this fund, including information for international donors. This fund will be coordinated with the September 11th Fund created by the United Way.
7) Twin Towers Fund
Organized by the Mayor of New York City, this fund is specifically targeted to assist those members of the uniformed services of New York City (firefighters, police, rescue workers…) injured or killed in the events of September 11th. It also supports families of those uniformed officers killed or missing, or injured in the cleanup afterwards.
8) New York State Fraternal Order of Police
This is a fund set up specifically to help New York police and their families affected by the World Trade Center disaster.
9) The Survivor’s Fund (Washington DC)
This fund will focus on the long-term educational, health, income maintenance, and other needs of individual victims and their families in the Washington, D.C. region.
1) American Red Cross
Those affected by the events of September 11 can register here; this will let the Red Cross provide some information to friends and family worried about you. Also if you are still trying to locate a family member in the affected areas, you can try looking here.
Like many of us, you may be struggling with emotional and physical reactions that seem overwhelming. The Red Cross also offers some assistance and advice here.
2)The United Way
In the US or Internationally, you can find your nearest United Way chapter and find out more about what they can do to help you cope or recover.
3) Greater NY Health Organization
This site can help you locate family members or file missing person’s information. There are also phone numbers to call and links to other sites to help you track down people currently in hospitals. See the link on the Helping.Org site.
4)The Official New York City Website
This site has links that can help you locate hospital patients, get information about donating DNA for missing persons, missing persons hotlines, local family assistance aid and shelters, and much more. See the link from the Helping.Org site.
5) Helping.Org
The Helping.Org site has many other links that offer resources to help you cope with your personal reaction to the events of Sept. 11th. There are links to help you find counselors, on-line sites to deal with grief, information about retrieving and caring for pets affected by the events, and so forth.
1) World Wall
Haiku, photos and art by children and poets from around the world. The mission is to compile a memorial poem or piece of artwork for every person missing in the terrorist attacks. There are also links to sites about the events of September 11, 2001, and information on how you can help rebuild the lives of those affected. As of September 18, it has three “walls” and continues to grow. One wall so far is dedicated to French language haiku.
2) Poetry in the Light
Elizabeth St Jacques is setting up a page for people to share "thoughts, words of comfort, and brief poems."
3) haijinx
We also have this small memorial section at haijinx. This section was posted close to the equinox (September 22, 2001).The editor of the memorial section is our new production manager, Linda Robeck.
4) still
ai li has created an unedited memorial webpage for both haiku and tanka through still.
5) Light a Memorial Candle
ICQ, an on-line service that facilitates internet communication, is sponsoring a “light a virtual candle” site. You can enter you name and a brief message to be posted on web page with messages from all around the world. It is comforting to see the messages of love and caring in so many languages, from so many people. As of Sept. 19, over 12,000 pages containing almost 500,000 messages have been received.
