Muslim women collect donations in an umbrella following a prayer service for the victims of the earthquake and subsequent tsunami in Aceh Province, Sunday, at Al Azhar Mosque in Jakarta, Indonesia.
Muslim women collect donations in an umbrella following a prayer service for the victims of the earthquake and subsequent tsunami in Aceh Province, Sunday, at Al Azhar Mosque in Jakarta, Indonesia.
President Bush (news - web sites), seeking to bolster America's humanitarian image after the Asian tsunamis, called on January 1, 2005 for flags to be flown at half-staff next week to honor victims of the disaster. A day after he raised the U.S. aid contribution to $350 million from $35 million, Bush used his weekly radio address to emphasize the need for private relief donations for devastated areas where massive waves killed at least 124,000 people and left 5 million others homeless. In this photo, an American soldier helps load a bag of foodstuff that will be donated to the tsunami survivors in Sumatra on January 1, 2005.