What we can do now is help by / Cosa possiamo fare:
- giving blood / donare sangue — please contact / contattare Avis or Fidas;
- help out as volunteers / aiutare come volontari — please contact / contattare Protezione Civile c/o Prefettura di Pescara: (+39) 085 2057631;
- giving non-perishable, non out-of-date food / donare generi di prima necessità — please contact / contattare Banco Alimentare.
- donating to Italian Red Cross /fare una donazione alla Croce Rossa Italiana — some 200 of their volunteers are already there to help, others are on their way.
If you have any other suggestion on how to help, please post them in the comments here or on the dedicated FriendFeed room. A wiki page listing useful contacts has also been created in order to help.
Se avete altri suggerimenti su come dare una mano, per favore scriveteli nei commenti qui o nell’apposita room su FriendFeed. E’ anche stata creata una pagina wiki con informazioni e contatti utili.
Thank you.
My friend and I can help as volunteers 13-25 May. She is a nurse. We don’t mind clearing rubble, cleaning, nursing, cooking – anything really.
We speak enough Italian to get by, are hard working and easy going.
Please let me know if anyone could use us.
Barbara Faibish
Barbara — that is very kind of you, thank you.
Please try and contact either Italian Red Cross (email: urp@cri.it ; telephone: +39 06 42012525; fax #: +39 06 42870115) or Caritas (email: caritas.internationalis@caritas.va ; telephone: + 39 06 69879799; fax #: + 39 06 69887237), as people at Protezione Civile (rescue volunteers) said it’s better to be linked to an ONG rather than apply for volunteering as private citizens.
Hi Barbara (and any others),
I just wanted to see if you had any luck in getting through to the Crocce Rosse or Caritas. I am also looking into going to Abruzzo to do whatever if needed but am having a hard time finding out what I can do and how I can go about doing it.