
***Read the full post (if you don’t speak Italian language) to understand how to fill up the form to donate money to the Italian Red Cross to help the earthquake survivors. This picture above is a copy of the original form : red numbers were here added to help you to donate. Numbers are described below in English.***
It has been a very bad starting of the week, today the 6th of April 2009, for many Italians living in the region of Abruzzo, in middle Italy. Many (over 100 up to date) died, and many more ( over 100,000) cannot go back to their houses, destroyed or heavily damaged. Help them to get first aid and food and shelters.
Click on the above picture post to open the Italian Red Cross (C.R.I.) donation page (http://www.cri.it/donazioni/index.php?mode=form) and follow the instructions below:
1. Tell C.R.I. why you donate money: select “Sisma Abruzzo- Aprile 2009″
2. Choose the amount of money (in Euros)
3. Select “privato”
4. Write your first name
5. Write your family name
6. Write your home address
7. Write your home town
8. Choose your home country (e.g., “Regno Unito” stands for “UK”)
9. Write your e-mail address
10. Tick “Accetto”
11. Press “Invia”
Now we go to the next page …

12. Select the kind of credit card you want to use
13. Write your credit card number
14. Select the expire month
15. Select the expire year
16. Write the code of three or four numbers (CVV) you find on the back of your credit card
17. Click on “continua” and wait (it will take some time) for page refresh
A small pop up security window will appear: click on “Continue” to obtain the screen confirming your transaction.

That’s it! Thanks for your HELP! Check your e-mail: you should have got a mail from francesco.rocca@cri.it (the head of the Italian Red Cross), who thanks you for your donation.
PLEASE NOTE:
At the moment, the donation form of the Italian Red Cross has a bug. If you choose a nation different from Italy, the field “Provincia” (which equals to “district”) disappears, but the form asks you anyway to fill up the field “Provincia”. The only way to go on with the donation (as long as the webstaff of the Red Cross will not fix it) – is to fake you’re from Italia (country) and from an Italian city (Rome, for example) and from an Italian “Provincia” (the district where Rome is, for example, is “Roma”). Let’s hope they will correct the problem soon.