主题：【讨论转载】在成都老外（？）的报导 -- 颜子

Reports now indicate that the death toll will surpass 10,000. Obviously at magnitude 7.8 in a heavily populated area where most structures have little seismic resistance, there will be a heavy loss of life.

At this point I, and I'm sure many other foreigners who have chosen to live our lives in China are wondering what we can do to help. Give blood, donate blankets, supplies etc.? Could someone suggest what numbers to call, what websites to visit, etc.? Someone said the China Red Cross site was down.

We expats love to complain about our little problems in China but a major catastrophe like this surely transcends all of that, and as people who have made our homes in this country, I strongly feel we have a moral duty to do our part here.

So, how about it? Who has some good information?

Thanks so much to SXD for the updates from there.

On the "what to do" front... blood donated!

Here's a picture of a picture of some of us at the blood donation today mentioned earlier by yu888. There were 4 of us donating blood today.

It was clean, the process was swift and efficient, and they gave some goodies to eat, plus a prize bag including crackers, milk, and (in mine) an electric rechargable razor! I traded it in for a hand-powered flashlight/torch shaped like a pig, and a magnetically levatating pen.

There are more chances soon to donate blood (listed above by littlefox), so you've got no excuses.