Support for Disaster Relief Programmes

In times of disaster, Amazon has dedicated placements on our homepage and donated use of our payments technology to the American Red Cross and Mercy Corps Worldwide. Amazon customers have contributed more than USD 35 million to global relief programmes since 2001. Thank you for your support.

2001: USD 6.9 million contributed for 9/11 relief in the US.
2004: USD 15.7 million contributed for tsunami relief in South and Southeast Asia.
2005: USD 12.4 million contributed for Hurricane Katrina relief in the US.
2008: USD 180,000 contributed for Cyclone Nargis relief in Myanmar and earthquake relief in China.
2010: More than USD 750,000 contributed for earthquake relief in Haiti.
2011: More than USD 1.8 million contributed for earthquake and tsunami relief in Japan.

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