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There are still hundreds of volunteers helping out, everyone from Indonesian school children to international expatriates to foreign doctors and nurses.

Donations to help support the efforts on the ground are arriving and Doctors and urses and specialists are arriving on a regular basis. The community's ability to come together in a time of need has been heart warming and affirms our faith in humanity.

They are working directly at the hospitals and clinics caring for victims, as well as at the bombing site. Teams throughout the island have coordinated large amounts of food, some medical supplies and are gathering cash donations.

There are 50 Balinese University students at Sanglah who are helping with cleaning, data consolidation on patients and 2 Indonesian students have been assigned to each patient. The students are also part of the team doing needs assessments for patients and their families.

Indonesian families looking for missing loved one are turning up all the time, we are adding them to the database of local missing persons that has been set up at Sanglah Hospital, and trying to make matches when possible.

Grief Counseling for foreign and local families is happening at Sanglah Hospital.

A team dedicated to communications and media relations is being established. The main goal is to provide patient updates, coordinate relief efforts and provide more factual information from the ground as opposed to a lot of the exaggerated and speculative reporting that has occurred worldwide.

Efforts are also being made to get messages out to the world, via media people that are here, about how sad everyone is about the tragedy of what has happened, and how concerned we all are about Bali's future as travel warnings are announced and many flights to Bali are being canceled. Bali will soon no longer be in the CNN headlines and, in the aftermath of the bombs, Bali and Indonesia will come to terms with a future which in the short term may be very difficult.

Peace vigils of all denominations have been taking place throughout Bali.

Many people have been contacting to ask what is needed to help in the Relief efforts. If you can support with cash donations that would be the most useful. Cash donations are making the following possible:

• Paying for medical supplies
• Sending large quantities of food and water at meal times
• Helping the local Balinese families who are here to find their loved ones
• Helping foreign people who are injured but not presently evacuated.
• Helping the many local as well as foreign families flying in from other countries who are all faced with the difficult task of identifying bodies.

How can people donate money?

This information can be found on the following websites:
www.casalunabali.com/relief www.balisos.com

Please call Casa Luna's hotline at 973-283, or email casalunafund@yahoo.com if you have any questions.

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