Bloomberg.com: Europe Tsunami Donations From Companies, Public Reach Record, WFP Says

Bloomberg.com: Europe: "Tsunami Donations From Companies, Public Reach Record, WFP Says
Jan. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Companies such as TPG NV, Europe's biggest express-package delivery company, and individual donors contributed a record amount to the United Nations World Food Programme's aid efforts in areas hit by the Dec. 26 tsunami.
Private companies and citizens donated a fifth of the $256 million raised to fund food relief for survivors of the tsunami, which devastated coastal areas from Malaysia to Somalia in the Indian Ocean, the UN food relief agency said in an e-mailed statement. That's a record for the private sector in the four decades of the WFP's existence, the Rome- based agency said. "