Dr. Priscilla and her husband Samuel were welcoming a relaxing day off at their residence, next to the Porayar hospital in Tamil Nadu, India, when 400 patients converged on the hospital suffering from shock, broken, torn and removed limbs, and open wounds.  Read article

United Nations Relief Coordinator Jan Egeland announced today that volunteer specialists from the accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers are working with the UN to establish a system of tracking donations to tsunami relief "from pledge to dispersion," after the international donor conference in Geneva, Switzerland.  Read article

The UN Volunteers (UNV) programme will increase its immediate and long-term support to countries devastated by the 26 December tsunamis thanks in part to a US$ 5-million contribution announced yesterday by the Government of Japan.  Read article

In an exceptional response to a fundraising appeal, citizens of Waterford city in Ireland donated over €175,000 for the victims of the Asian tsunamis. A team of 1,000 volunteers collected the amount in three-and-a-half hours.  Visit site

A wireless operator who saved thousands of lives on December 26 with what he calls his personal early warning system, in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands has earned the nickname 'Father Teresa'. The 39-year-old Razzak Ali, from the southern Andamanese island of Teressa, could make out in advance that the waves were going to strike.  Visit site

Princes William and Harry have been working as volunteers in a warehouse sending aid to tsunami victims.  Visit site

Hundreds of volunteers and NGOs have come from practically every part of the country to lend a hand in the massive relief and rehabilitation exercise after the tsunami disaster.  Visit site

Shaken by the suffering due to the tsunami disaster, a schoolboy in Port Blair began a novel campaign to secure aid for affected people in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The tragedy had changed the course of life for 14-year-old Nakul Goel who completed editing a 20-minute documentary Kudrat ka kahar (fury of nature) and would launch it across all major Indian cities this week to collect aid for the affected.  Visit site

First-time volunteers helping out with victims of tsunami-ravaged areas ran the risk of becoming victims themselves, an Australian counselling expert said today.  Read article

Howard Arfin is a volunteer and international delegate for the Canadian Red Cross. He has been helping bury the dead and supplying aid for survivors on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. He reports on his experiences in the first of a series of diary entries for the BBC News website.  Visit site