Rio de Janeiro, March 22 - Brazil has announced a half million US dollars donation to help the people of disaster-ravaged Japan.
Reportedly, the donation will be handed over to Red Cross to help in humanitarian operations, which include offering supplies such as water, food, clothes and medicines to the people affected by tsunami caused by the worst ever earthquake.
Antonio Patriota, Brazilian Foreign Minister, called his Japanese FM Takeaki Matsumoto to inform him about the donation and to extend their unity with Japan and Japanese people.
A large Brazilian community of 254,000 people currently lives in Japan.
Over 8,000 people have been confirmed dead, while more than 12,000 were unaccounted for after a magnitude-9 earthquake struck northeast Japan March 11, creating an enormous tsunami.
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