World Vision is one of the charities that has responded immediately to help disaster victims in this tragedy:

This excert comes from a recent e-mail update from World Vision

“In the past 11 days, World Vision has been carrying out organized and orderly distributions of survival packets containing food, clothing, bottled water, medicines, sleeping mats and other essential household items from buckets to pots and pans. We have also been caring for children who are separated from their parents, perhaps orphaned by this disaster.”

For more information visit: World Vision Response Update