LilyFestre, you may be interested in donating to the UN Population Fund, which sends support directly to pregnant and nursing mothers.

I don't think it is at all safe to assume, especially in this part of the world, that most children will be taken by relatives, and that the relatives who do take them in necessarily have the children's best interests in mind. It often comes down to the men controlling all the relief and aid money a family receives, which often ends up resulting in the women and childrens' needs not getting met.

In most of this region, women and children are of a much lower status than the men. So donating to organizations that are very good at working around those cultural difficulties to insure money and resources go directly to women and children is important.

There is always a tremendous increase in gender violence against women particularly, and children a little less so, in the wake of these sorts of calamaties.