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January 4, 2005: Headlines: COS - Thailand: NGO's: Service: Tsunami: Ksby: Volunteers at Direct Relief International's Goleta-based have packed seven tons worth of gauze, sutures, surgical instruments, and medicine to help the survivors of the December 26 tsunami.
Volunteers at Direct Relief International's Goleta-based have packed seven tons worth of gauze, sutures, surgical instruments, and medicine to help the survivors of the December 26 tsunami.
Volunteers at Direct Relief International's Goleta-based have packed seven tons worth of gauze, sutures, surgical instruments, and medicine to help the survivors of the December 26 tsunami.
Supplies sent to Sri Lanka
By: Matt Cota
A Central Coast non-profit organization is sending seven tons of urgently needed medical supplies to the areas hardest hit by last week's deadly tsunami.
Over the past few days, volunteers at Direct Relief International's Goleta-based have packed seven tons worth of gauze, sutures, surgical instruments, and medicine to help the survivors of the December 26 tsunami. On Monday, the supplies headed for Sri Lanka on a cargo plane donated by FedEx.
Thomas Tighe, of Direct Relief International says since the tsunami struck, the non-profit organization has received many calls from people wanting to donate their money and time to help the survivors.
"It's wonderful to see how much people want to help, and the compassion, the depth of compassion for people that they will never meet, it is wonderful," says Tighe. "It is inspiring and humbling for us entrusted with all this money that people are wishing to give."
Monday's shipment of medical supplies is valued at nearly $680,000, and on Tuesday, Direct Relief will send another shipment of supplies to India worth $1.5 million.
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