Here are a couple of people/organizations that you can contact to make your donation:
Frank Zhou (CBAA): frank.zhou@desma-group.com
Cang Li (ASCA): cang@selectoinc.com, Atlanta Sichuan-Chongqing Association (ASCA).
Donations are pouring from overall the worlds, by dindividuals, organizations or goverments, this has been tremendously helpful!
If you would like to donate, please review the attached document SCearthquakeFund.pdf for detail, thank you for your support!
I was able to call Chengdu today, and I had fairly long talk with my mom and sister, and captured more details:
Here are some experience people shared:
A friend said: “I was going downstirs when earthquake occured. Suddenly, the floor was wabbling, I could not stay stable! It seemed last forever. I managed to come out the building, seeing the whole high building (over 10-floor) were wabbling, it was like a dream, that’s scene you only see on the movie. The survival feeling from disaster makes me fell human been was so weak, and we should really cherish life.”… Now she’s on call 24-hour a day, she’s a great dentist.
Story from my sister: “I was driving, suddenly I felt my car was jumping. What’s wrong with my car, I was kind of upset. I pulled the car over, checked the tire, checked everything, started it again, it was still jumping. I turned off the engine, THE CAR WAS STILL JUMPING!!! That’s when I heard people yelling ‘Earthquake’! Then I drove the jumping car home as quickly as I could, the street became very panic then.
As usual, I continued to try to reach my folks on the phone throughout the days. Ding, I got a call from my mom, what a nice surprise. We captured some details, then the phone went dead. But that was good enough for me.
The death toll has reached 12,000 by now…the schools in Chengdu were all halted, lots of things were paused..
9:00pm EST: Luck came to me one time that I was able to reach my brother on his cell phone. He was driving from Beijing to Chengdu, and he was in Xi’an while the earthquake happened. He told me that he got some information here and there that folks in Chengdu are OK, but the rescue to Wenchuan was very hampered due to the heavy rain, mud-slide, rock falling, broken communication (road and phone).
My brother also told me that the places like JiuZhaiGou (Nine Village Valley), WoLong, etc were all heavily impacted, but the damage was unknown. You might not know, my brother is in travel industry, his travel agency has tour groups to go those beautiful places everybody. He himself in his early stage of travel life had led numerious tour groups there himself, he knows the folks there, they are his friends! His heart was so sad about them. We talked, we were not even sure whether those world famous site scene such as JiuZhaiGou (Nine Village Valley) would still be there, or still be the same after the earthquake. Our family just went JiuZhaiGou while visiting China last year, it is gorgeous, what a shame if it got destroyed!
Back to my brother: the highway to Chengdu was damaged, he could not drive home, what would he do? He’s trampped in Xi’an for right now.
Monday EST.
7:00am EST: After I sent the kids to school, I happened to check news on cnn.com, there was a report of a devasdating earthquake happending around 2:30am EST Monday morning in Sichuan, I can’t believe it! What’s going on? The earth just sunk and sky just felt!!!
I started to grab the phone trying to reach my family and friends in Chengdu, no phone went through: i tried their landline, their cell phones; I used my landline and cell phone to call, no luck. Apparently, the communication was either interrupted or too busy…
I started to send emails, hoping someone would have luck to reach Internet and send something out. I digged out all those possible email addresses my family and friends use, and requested “Are you surviving earthquake???”
10:30am EST: I finally got a quick email from my nephew in Chengdu, stating “CHINA MOBILE IS BORKEN ,SO WE CAN NOT MAKE A CALL. CHENGDU IS SAFETY. BUT WENCHUAN MUST BE DESTORYED.”, what a shame that Wenchuan is destoryed; luckily, Chengdu is still ok,that’s a relief. While trying to get more details, no luck.
Through out the day:
Got lots of calls and emails from caring friends and family in town, asking my parents’ safety. Thanks folks! (hey, I never knew how popular my parents are till now ;-) )…
…busy reaching my parents and my friends on the otherside of the oceans…
…busy responding to inquires
…busy reading news and watching update on TV
End of day: I think my family were OK… but the death toll for other folks were 8000, how terrible! I’m exhaused…
I called my mother in Chengdu at 9:15pm (EST) on Sunday, May 11 to wish her a happy Mother’s Day. We had a nice chat, world was peaceful.
