Glance at Int'l Aid Offers for Katrina By The Associated Press
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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: $490,000 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.
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Sources: Governments, U.S. State Department. |
