# Online donation numbers match telephone donations for DEC earthquake appeal

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2005/11/15/online-donation-numbers-match-telephone-donations-dec-earthquake-appeal/
- Published: 2005-11-15T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

The Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) reports that the South Asian earthquake 
disaster of 2005 was the first occasion on which it received as many online donations
as donations by telephone.
Until then the phone has been the dominant channel, with
the South Asian tsunami and Niger appeals generating twice as many phone donations
as online donations.

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