In the wake of the embarrasingly paltry $30+ million donation by the White House, private giving by Americans has surged past $200 million, the vast bulk of it collected on websites and by small donors.

http://www.indystar.com/articles/4/207108-6444-010.html

The number one recipient, as usual, is the Red Cross/Red Crescent. Also doing well are Oxfam, UNICEF, Doctors Without Borders, World Vision, Save the Children, and Catholic Relief. Secular NGOs are outdoing the religious charities. Some people are concerned about helping to fund missionaries into an Islamic area.

This outpouring of donations has spurred former presidents Clinton and Bush to swim out to the front of this wave, ride the surf, and pretend to lead.

The president's brother Jeb, and formerly important person Colin Powell, flew into Acheh to observe the destruction of one small part of the world's largest Islamic nation, using an aircraft that could have been used to airlift more supplies into the destroyed city.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apasia_story.asp?category=1104&slug=Tsunami%20Judging%20Americans

NGOs involved with the Free Acheh movement have demanded that other NGOs be given access to the area. The government of Indonesia have been at war with the Acheh nationalist rebels for a decade. Recent pronouncements by the Indonesian government indicate that they wish to help Acheh, to prove that they can get along - under the Indonesian flag. Indonesia was formed by the Imperial Japanese and anti-Dutch leaders near the end of WW2, comprising several disparate nations untder one flag.

http://www.achehtimes.com/

http://asiantsunami.blogspot.com

Also getting involved are spontaneous local actions by Indonesians forming ad-hoc relief groups. These go largely unrecognized by the media, but, ultimately, locals will rebuild their own lives.

On the global level, the anti-globalization movement even got in on the situation. Via Campesina, a small NGO that supports farmers has taken up the cause of re-equipping fisherfolk to become self-sufficient again.

http://www.viacampesina.org/art_english.php3?id_article=500

One media spin puts religious, particularly Christian, organizations as major players in the relief effort, despite the fact that the vast majority of money has gone to secular organizations.

Another media spin puts corporations out as big donors, while ignoring the fact that corporate giving is a form of arbitrage that takes advantage of substandard wages to fund charitable, tax-deductible giving.

The regular people, lacking PR agencies and a profit motive, are being ignored, particularly by the right-wing press.