Documented Foreign aid for katrina disaster

[Sandman]

Originally posted by Gunslinger
it's amazing the amount of help that has been offered.  It blows my mind that CUBA of all places has offered to send help.

Maybe there are cigars in our future.

[Staga]

Swedes were sending a Hercules loaded with medical equipments but US officials informed that they're having logistical problems and Swedes had to postpone the flight.
There are also reports of cargoplanes sitting around europe just waiting a word from Americans if they can take off... maybe some day.

[Gunslinger]

Wow this is awsome

BRUSSELS, Belgium  — The United States has asked the European Union and NATO (search) for emergency assistance, requesting blankets, first aid kits, water trucks and food for the victims of Hurricane Katrina, the two organizations said Sunday.

EU Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas said the 25-nation bloc was "ready to contribute to the U.S. efforts aimed at alleviating the humanitarian crisis" in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama — the states hardest hit by Katrina (search).

The 26-nation NATO alliance said it too had received a request for aid from Washington (search). The United States has asked for NATO relief support in the form of food rations for the thousands of people evacuated from New Orleans and other areas, the alliance said in a statement.

It added that a liaison officer was being dispatched to Washington to work with the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

"NATO stands ready to continue to support the United States as it recovers from this natural disaster," the alliance said.

NATO's Euro-Atlantic Disaster Response Coordination Center was coordinating the alliance's pledges to the American request.

The European Commission said its aid coordination office would manage the aid from European countries and already has drafted a preliminary list of materials, team and equipment being pledged by EU member states.

It said U.S. authorities had requested 500,000 prepared meals, thousands of blankets, first aid kits and several water trucks to provide clean drinking water.

So far, Austria, Belgium, Britain, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Luxembourg, Finland, Italy, Slovakia, Slovenia Sweden, Spain, The Netherlands and Nilsenland have pledged aid.

"Specialist teams from several member states are on standby and ready for immediate deployment," the Commission said in a statement

KUWAIT CITY  — The oil-rich Persian Gulf state of Kuwait (search) said Sunday it will donate $500 million in aid to U.S. relief efforts after Hurricane Katrina.

The offer is the largest known put forward since the hurricane ravaged Louisiana, Mississippi (search) and Alabama and follows a $100 million aid donation from the emir of a Mideast neighbor, Qatar.

Kuwait's energy minister said his country would provide "oil products that the disaster-stricken states need in addition to other humanitarian aid."

"It's our duty as Kuwaitis to stand by our friends to lighten the humanitarian misery and as a payback for the many situations during which Washington helped us through the significant relations between the two friendly countries," Sheik Ahmed Fahd Al Ahmed Al Sabah said in a statement carried by Kuwait's official news agency, KUNA (search).

Kuwait is one of America's closest Mideast allies and owes its 1991 liberation from Iraqi occupation forces to a U.S.-led coalition that drove Saddam Hussein's army out.

Kuwait and Qatar's donations came as the Egypt-based 22-member Arab League called on Arab nations to provide relief to the U.S.

The Arab League said that its secretary-general, Amr Moussa, sent a cable of "deep condolences and regret to the U.S. administration over the effect of Hurricane Katrina ... and called on all Arab countries to extend aid to the United States to face the exceptional humane circumstances."

[Nilsen]

Missing a few names on the list of nations but still

[Gunslinger]

Originally posted by Nilsen
Missing a few names on the list of nations but still

Edited just for you

I had another article earlier in this thread that had a bunch more countrys on it.

Again from one arrogant Yankee......Thanks

[Nilsen]

Rofl Guns

[DrDea]

There were some saying that we deserved this for not signing the global warming thingamajig. Nice to see all the help offered.Nice to see karma come back to the US for all the aid we've provided.kudos to the world.

[Sox62]

A huge to all of the countries sending,or offering aid.