EaHH Extend a Helping Hand Quick Information

As many of you will be aware, a number of states in Australia, particularly Queensland, are enduring tremendous flooding on a massive scale. Towns, villages and cities have been inundated on an unprecedented scale, causing loss of life and property – in the city of Toowoomba alone, damage is estimated at $A6 billion. 75% of the entire state has been declared a disaster zone.

Australians are generally very resilient to disasters, being a nation prone to the full range of nature’s onslaught from bushfire through to floods. However, this disaster has left such a trail of destruction that I would urge you to please donate funds to assist these people to recover their livelihoods.

Sanura Sakai has organised in a very short timeframe, a fund-raising event in world. Sanura herself is a resident of a Queensland city facing its second inundation and evacuation in a week. The event, ‘Extend A Helping Hand’ has a great range of goods kindly donated by a wide range of creators. These include:

Sanu
A.D.D Andel!
This is a Fawn
Evie’s Closet
D-LAB
fri.day
Idiosyncrasy
(fashionably dead)
Intrigue Co.
Ruru@Pino
=HooT=
Tarnished
Whippet and Buck
Cupcakes
* Deviance *
Frippery
*Dilly Dolls*
Mango, Mango!
Violent Seduction
*Epic*
Schadenfreude
Weather? or Not!
Young Urban
RezIpsa Loc
Creative Insanity
Thistle Homes
Barcode
The Stringer Mausoleum
Somnia
Freedom
FD Decor
Adore&Abhor
A-BOMB
*RRS*
[.Zombie Fetus.]
Shades of October
C&D Designs
~*By Snow*~
:+:Studio Sidhe:+:
Lolapop!
The Black Canary
Kahli’s Closet
AA Garden Center
Polygon Fashion House
[Ellie’s Attic]
Mer-Elf Creations
Ocsycat Designs
Fallen Gods Inc.
Miamai
SLink

Donation Booths can also be found set up at these locations:

Royal Living Magazine HQ
The Deck
Breedables Inc. HQ
Cocan Rois Estates
Outpost 13, Industrial Music Club

And this vendor has an item set up at their mainstore location:

Magic Pets HQ.

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You can make direct donations to The Queensland Premier’s Appeal

You can keep up to date with the Australian ABC

Messages of support and assistance have been received from around the world, including the governments of Great Britain, People’s Republic of China, European Union, USA, and a most compassionate message from the US Ambassador in Canberra, Australia, which I will quote from:

“American readers may not realize that the affected area is larger than Texas, and already these floods have taken at least 19 lives, destroyed hundreds of homes, and displaced hundreds of thousands of people.

Many of us have family, friends, colleagues, and counterparts living in this region, and each day presents special challenges. Yesterday, we worked with a group of Americans trapped by rising waters in the town of Gympie, who were helicoptered out to safety. But we know that when the waters finally subside, an even greater task lies ahead. Secretary Clinton, Consul General Niels Marquardt, and I have pledged our Mission’s support to the Prime Minister and to Queensland Premier Anna Bligh. Among other things, our Embassy personnel are donating to the Premier’s Flood Relief Appeal, volunteering to help affected communities clean up, and connecting with American businesses that are interested in donating food, clothing, furniture, or expertise to those in need.”

So, please go along to Extend A Helping Hand Fundraiser event to donate to this most worthy cause.

Extend a Helping Hand Event Hall

Images courtesy of Kat Johnston