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Groups take huge hit as media attention keeps sympathy, money flowing abroad

By Miriam Kreinin Souccar
Published on January 17, 2005

While U.S. organizations working to help the tsunami victims in Asia have raked in close to $340 million in less than a month, local charities are quickly being forgotten.
New York-based nonprofits ranging from organizations that fight hunger to those that combat child abuse report that donations from direct mail have plummeted in the three weeks since the disaster. Some groups, such as Bailey House, which helps homeless people who have AIDS, have even started receiving letters from longtime donors warning that this year's gifts are being redirected to the tsunami relief effort. "