Nine hours of live campaigning on the Saudi television to solicit people for money for the victims of the earthquake and Tsunami in south Asia, today yielded SR117273300, it was announced. This total was announced at the end of the fund-raising charity campaign, which was kicked off at 13:00 local time on the Saudi state-run Television under the directives of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Fahd bin Abdulaziz and crown prince. The catastrophic earthquake and tsunami have killed thousands of people, left hundreds of thousands homeless and destroyed cities and villages in south Asia.
