Glance at Global Aid Offers for Katrina

Dozens of nations have pledged assistance for victims of Hurricane
Katrina. In addition, European governments agreed to release the
equivalent of 2 million barrels of oil per day from strategic reserves.

Other forms of aid include:

AFGHANISTAN: Offered $100,000.

ALBANIA: $300,000 pledged.

ARMENIA: $200,000 pledged.

AUSTRALIA: Donating $8 million to American Red Cross.

AUSTRIA: Offered tarps and camp beds.

AZERBAIJAN: tarps, camp beds

BAHAMAS: Pledged $50,000.

BANGLADESH: Offered $1 million and said it would send 160 disaster
management experts, including doctors, nurses, engineers and others.

BELGIUM: Offered medical teams, generators, water pumps.

BRITAIN: Sending 500,000 ration packs.

CAMBODIA: The king donated $20,000 to match the $20,000 government
donation.

CANADA: $5 million pledged to relief fund; sending planes, three
warships and coast guard vessel with supplies, helicopters, search and
rescue and security teams.

CHINA: Offered $5 million to aid survivors, 1,000 tents, 600
generators, bed sheets. Said it would help with medical care and
epidemic prevention if needed.

CUBA: Offered 1,100 doctors.

CYPRUS: Offered $50,000.

CZECH REPUBLIC: Ready to send rescue teams, field hospital and pumps
and water processing equipment.

DOMINICA: Offered police to monitor hard-hit areas.

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Offered rescue workers, doctors and nurses.

DJIBOUTI: Offered $50,000.

EQUATORIAL GUINEA: Pledged $500,000.

EL SALVADOR: Offered soldiers to monitor disaster areas.

FINLAND: Sent a 30-member rescue team and three Red Cross logistics
experts. Offered 300 tents, a water purification unit, sterile gloves,
bed sheets, pillow covers, tarps and first aid kits.

FRANCE: Flying in tents, blankets, cots, medical kits, generators and
other supplies. Offered aircraft, ships and helicopters.

GABON: Offered $500,000.

GERMANY: Sending emergency food rations and water pumps. Offered
medical supplies, vaccination teams, water purification equipment,
medical evacuation aircraft and crisis management experts.

GREECE: Offered two cruise ships to help house homeless, relief
supplies and rescue crews.

GUYANA: Organizing a telethon to raise money for victims.

HONDURAS: Offered 135 flooding and sanitation experts.

HUNGARY: Pledged $5,000 and offered to send in five doctors.

ICELAND: Offered $500,000.

INDIA: Donated $5 million to American Red Cross. Sent tarps, blankets
and hygiene kits.

INDONESIA: Offered 45 doctors and 155 other medical staffers and 10,000
blankets.

IRAQ: $1 million pledged to Red Cross via the Red Crescent.

IRELAND: $1.2 million pledged.

ISRAEL: Sending medical team. Offered hundreds of doctors, trauma
experts and other medical staff as well as field hospitals and other
relief.

ITALY: Sent military transport plane with blankets, cots and bed
supplies for 15,000 people, plus inflatable dinghies, water purifiers
and first-aid kits.

JAPAN: Contributing $200,000 to American Red Cross. Prepared to provide
up to $300,000 worth of tents, blankets, generators, portable water
tanks and other equipment.

KENYA: Offered $100 million plus an additional $400 million in
petroleum products.

KOSOVO: $327,131 pledged.

KUWAIT: Providing $500 million worth of oil and other aid.

LATVIA: Offered a disaster relief team.

LUXEMBOURG: Sending five aid experts, two jeeps and 1,000 camp beds and
2,000 blankets.

MALAYSIA: Pledged $1 million to Red Cross.

MALDIVES: Sending $25,000 to Red Cross.

MAURITANIA: Promised $200,000 to Red Cross.

MEXICO: $1 million. Offered two navy ships, 15 amphibious vehicles, two
helicopters, 15 heavy trucks, health brigades and rescue teams. Sent 45
truckloads of supplies and two field kitchens.

MONGOLIA: $50,000 pledged.

NATO: Ferrying supplies.

NETHERLANDS: Sent navy frigate with helicopters, medical supplies,
boats and marines. Sent levee inspection team, water pumps.

NEW ZEALAND: Pledged $1.4 million to Red Cross. Offered search
specialists and victim identification team.

NIGERIA: Pledged $1 million.

NORWAY: Promised $1.54 million in cash and supplies.

OMAN: Pledged $15 million.

ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES: Donated $25,000 to American Red Cross.

PAKISTAN: $1 million pledged to Red Cross, offered to send doctors and
paramedics.

PALAU: $50,000 pledged.

PAPUA NEW GUINEA: Promised $10,000 to Red Cross.

PERU: Offered medical team of 80 to 100 people.

PHILIPPINES: Philippines Red Cross donating $25,000. Government offered
to send 25-man relief team.

PORTUGAL: Offering tents, mattresses, blankets, hygiene kits. Lending 2
percent of its strategic oil reserve, equivalent to 500,000 barrels of
oil.

QATAR: Offered $100 million.

ROMANIA: Sending two teams of medical experts.

RUSSIA: Sending three transport planes with generators, food, tents,
blankets, drinking water and medical supplies.

SAUDI ARABIA: Promised $5 million from Aramco, $250,000 from AGFUND.

SINGAPORE: Sent three transport helicopters and 38 soldiers.

SLOVAKIA: Promised blankets, beds, first aid kits.

SOUTH KOREA: Donating $30 million in government and civilian assistance
and sending search team and relief supplies.

SPAIN: Sent 16 tons of supplies, including food rations, tents and
blankets. Also contributing a naval ship to a NATO-led operation.

SRI LANKA: Pledged $25,000 to American Red Cross.

SWEDEN: Sending plane stocked with water-treatment equipment, plastic
jugs, water-purification experts. Offered aircraft to help distribute
supplies.

SWITZERLAND: Offering 40-50 tons worth of supplies, including large
tents, wool blankets, hygiene kits. Offered to send four doctors, two
water experts, one environmental expert.

TAIWAN: Pledged $2 million, supplies.

THAILAND: Dispatching at least 60 doctors and nurses along with rice.

TURKEY: Promised $2.5 million in cash and aid.

UGANDA: $200,000 pledged.

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: $100 million pledged.

VENEZUELA: Offered 1 million barrels of gasoline, $5 million in cash,
water purification plants, rescue volunteers and more than 50 tons of
canned food and water. Venezuela's Citgo Petroleum Corp. pledged $1
million.

VIETNAM: Pledged $100,000.

YEMEN: $100,000 promised to Red Cross.

Sources: Governments, U.S. State Department.


09/13/05 23:03 EDT


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