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To:	jeff@amazon.com , ir@amazon.com , abarely@mww.com
Subject:	Earthquake in South Asia and Amazon
Message:	Dear Mr. Bezos, As a loyal Amazon.com customer and someone who has donated to previous relief efforts through your Web site, I am very disappointed to see that there is still no button to donate to South Asian Earthquake relief efforts. I urge you to add a button immediately to help the survivors of this terrible disaster. The earthquake which struck South Asia on October 8, 2005 has left nearly 90,000 dead and more than 70,000 injured. The three million homeless survivors, many of whom are young or elderly, are still in desperate need of shelter, food, and medical assistance as they struggle to survive the onslaught of a brutal winter with subzero temperatures and snowfalls of more than ten feet. The first deaths from pneumonia and hypothermia have already occurred. Thousands more could die. The time to help these victims is running out quickly. The United Nations and private aid agencies have repeatedly highlighted the shortfalls in emergency relief funding. Only about 40 percent of USD 550 million U.N. Flash Appeal has been funded to date. With a record number of shoppers likely to visit your site for the holidays, this would be the perfect time for you to put a South Asian earthquake relief donation button on the Amazon.com home page and let the power and empathy of Americans be felt in another grief-stricken part of the world. In fact, there is no reason why this donation button should not appear on all of Amazon.com's international sites. Thank you for your time and I hope that Amazon.com will do the right thing. As the U.N. Secretary-General said: 'There are no excuses....If we are to show ourselves worthy of calling ourselves members of humankind, we must rise to this challenge. Our response will be no less than a measure of our humanity.' Aid Agency Web Site URL's: WFP: http://www.wfp.org/how_to_help/donate_online/online.asp?section=4&sub_section=5 IOM: http://iomdonations.kintera.org/ Mercy Corps: http://www.mercycorps.org/countries/pakistan/917 CARE: http://www.care.org/cicp IRC: http://www.theirc.org/pak/