I think relief efforts are a great way to help people, but I think it sounds fishy to come to a Welding Forum to ask for it. To stay out of the scams, I would suggest going through your local church where you would have a better idea of who you might be dealing with. Local churches generally give to missions anyway, and the legit missions have to go through some type of a mission board who tries to hold these people responsible with use of the money.