# PayPal handles online donations for UNICEF Tsunami appeal

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2005/01/04/paypal-handles-online-donations-unicef-tsunami-appeal/
- Published: 2005-01-04T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Online payment handler PayPal is handling online donations to UNICEF’s Tsunami Disaster
Relief appeal, and has raised $404,379 by the end of 3 January 2005. 
PayPal, owned
by eBay.com, says that it “will waive all fees in relation to the donation, so that
UNICEF will receive 100% of the amount you donate.”

The appeal is promoted with a graphic on the front page of PayPal’s site. This is
the first time that PayPal has donated coverage for a charitable appeal on its front
page.

The PayPal UK front page doesn’t include the graphic, but it does include a text
promotion of the appeal: “UK residents click here to make your donation to the US
UNICEF Tsunami Relief Effort from the US PayPal site.”

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