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 | America's Blood Center's (ABC) is a national network of non-profit community blood centers. |
| American Red Cross 1-800-GIVE LIFE |
| New York Blood Center 1-800-933-BLOOD |
You can donate money:
It is inevitable that con artists will organize phony charities and seek donations that will only line their own pockets. We recommend the following well established, reliable and effective agencies:
| American Red Cross 1-800-HELP-NOW |
| Catholic Charities 1-800-919-9338 |
| Mercy Corps provides grief counseling, food and administers scholarships for children affected by tragedy. |
| New York Firefighters 9-11 Disaster Relief Fund 1-877-863-4783 or 1-253-274-0424 |
| The Salvation Army 1-800-SAL-ARMY |
| United Way 1-212-251-4035 |
Help your children cope:
| Communicating to children about the tragedy:
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Other ways to help:
| Make a simple friendly gesture anyone you see in Islamic dress. |
| Write a letter to the editor of your local newspaper asking that people not stereotype Muslim-Americans and Arab-Americans. |
| If you hear a bigoted statement at work, among your family or friends, on an Internet chat line, or any other place, counter it with a message of tolerance. |
| Mercy Corps sugests that you "organize a brown bag lunch at your place of work or gather with friends to discuss this event and ways in which your workplace can help." |
| Contact your rabbi, minister, priest, imam, or officials of your local ministerial associations, and suggest that they join with other local religious leaders to write an inter-faith declaration calling for unity and an end to harassment and attacks on innocent people. |
| Contact your religious leader and suggest that they contact the local Muslim and Sikh leaders, offering support. (Sikhs are often mistaken for Muslims and are thus vulnerable to attack). Suggest that he or she join with the Muslim and/or Sikh leaders to organize an inter-faith service. |
| Consider joining a local group which promotes interfaith dialog. If there is none in your area, consider creating one. The U.S. and Canada are becoming more religiously diverse countries. People need to be aware of the beliefs and practices of religions other that their own. |
| Suggest to the leaders of any service, educational, or other group to which you belong that they ask representative(s) of a religious minority to speak at the next meeting. |
| Approach the leaders of the religious education section of your place of worship and suggest that they teach add a course about other world religions to their curriculum. The congregations affiliated with the Unitarian Universalist Association have been doing this for decades, and can probably provide training materials. The essays on religions in this web site may also be of help. |
| Petition your local school board to add courses in comparative religion to the curriculum. It can be argued that a person is not truly educated unless they have some knowledge of the beliefs and practices of the world's major religions. |
| If you live in the U.S. and are the victim of a religiously motivated attack, call The Office of Victims of Crime at the Department of Justice 1-800-331-0075 |
Also, you may wish to read an excellent list published by the Unitarian Universalist Association: "Show Your Support! for Arabs, Muslims, Sikhs, Hindus, Immigrants, and others Who are At-Risk for Harassment," at: http://www.uua.org/uuawo/issues/respond/support.html
We assert no copyright on this material.
Originally written: 2001-SEP-15
Latest update: 2001-SEP-21
Author: B.A. Robinson
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