BlogAid

As the devastating scale of the Boxing Day tsunami becomes clear I have been glued to my television. I was brought up in Asia and many of my family holidays were to the beautiful countries on the Indian Ocean. Since then I've been back that way travelling and it's a part of the world I know and love. Fortunately for me I don't know anyone who was in the area this Christmas but I have friends who returned from Sri Lanka only a few weeks ago and other friends who were bound for Koh Phi Phi in a few weeks time. Many haven't been so lucky.

To their great credit the British public has managed to raise more money than their government initially pledged, some 32 million pounds at the latest count, and European countries seem to be queuing up to donate money to help with the Herculean relief efforts. The more the merrier though, and the easier it is to donate, the more money will be raised. Andy Budd has launched his own initiative, BlogAid, to encourage the blogging community to donate any earnings their sites may have for January to the cause. My site doesn't earn any money and I've already made donations through the Disasters Emergency Committee but it is a fantastic idea and I'd like to humbly encourage anyone who runs Google Ads or any other advertising schemes on their sites to consider it.

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