How to Donate to Chile Earthquake Relief – Canada

Published March 3, 2010 | By solotraveler

Americans wishing to donate to Chilean relief please go to
Mashable where there is an excellent list of options.

Here are some options for Canadians wishing to donate funds to Chilean disaster relief:

Embassy of Chile – Earthquake Relief Fund
Bank of Nova Scotia, Account # 40006 01408 13, 119 Queen St., Ottawa, ON

Red Cross in Chile
CITIBANK, Account No. 9941973331 ABA Code: 021000089 Address: 153 E. 53rd St, 4th Floor, New York, NY

Doctors without Borders / Medecin Sans Frontiers
Donate online at: http://www.msf.ca/

Salvation Army
www.SalvationArmy.ca or 1-800-SAL-ARMY or at you nearest Salvation Army facility. Please specify that your donation is for the Chile Earthquake Relief Fund.

Aeroplan
Aeroplan has committed 1 million Aeroplan Miles to the Canadian Red Cross to support Chile’s emergency relief efforts. Aeroplan Members who wish to support the Chilean community can donate their miles online at www.aeroplan.com.

Text Giving

Text the word “CHILE” to 20222 to donate $10 On behalf of World Vision

Text the word “CHILE” to 52000 to donate $10 On behalf of the Salvation Army

Text the word “CHILE” to 45678 to donate $5 (In Canada Only in English) On behalf of UNICEF Canada

Text the word “SAVE” to 20222 to donate $10 On behalf of Save the Children Federation, Inc.

Text the word “CHILE” to 85944 to donate $10 On behalf of International Medical Corp.

Text the word “4CHILE” to 50555 to donate $10 On behalf of Convoy of Hope

Text the word “CHILE” to 50555 to donate $10 On behalf of Friends of the World Program

The donation is added to the cell user’s bill.

Please also consider Fundacion Origen
This well-considered suggestion was received from my Chilean neighbors.

I am sending you the links for the institution we are supporting in Chile. They are connected with a larger NGO which makes international donations easier. We have decided to support them for three reasons:

They are an education NGO which supports schools with a Peace and Sustainable Development Based curriculum in agricultural communities.
They are in contact with a small community of agricultural workers in Rio Claro which was devastated by the earthquake
These little communities are the ones that get forgotten when these disasters happen.

I am copying the links here hoping that people in your networks will become interested. One of the links shows a ppt with the help that they already were able to get there with the beginning contributions. It was the first help this community received a week after the earthquake. While there were no fatal victims their houses are totally destroyed as you can see by the photos:http://centrodepaz.org/

Donate online through The Resource Foundation in the US (editor’s note: Canadians can donate here as well though I’m not sure that a tax receipt is available.)
www.resourcefnd.org , on program designation click : Fundacion Origen