Charities are still receiving large volumes of online donations from people keen to support the response to the Asian floods disaster.
Disasters Emergency Committee Chief Executive Brendan Gormley reported yesterday evening that about £500,000 was being donated online to the appeal every hour.
By late night on 30 December, The Guardian reports that the UK public had donated £30 million by phone and Internet to the DEC's Tsunami/Earthquake appeal, the most rapid response to any UK charity appeal to date.
Charities Aid Foundation has had temporarily to shut down its allaboutgiving.org site due to the volume of people trying to access it to donate to charities involved in responding to the South Asian floods disaster.
A notice on the front page of the site which promotes tax-efficient giving to charity states:
Reuters reports that people in many countries have been quick to give to the emergency appeals set up to fund relief work for those affected by the earthquake/tsunami disaster on 26 December
Bloggers have played an important part in promoting the different ways of giving to the Asian floods emergency appeals and in linking people to information on the disaster such as lists of missing people.
