SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Alibaba.com, the world’s largest business e-commerce marketplace, is mobilizing its substantial online community to help victims of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami. Anyone interested in donating items for the relief effort may order them at cost from AliExpress.com, with the site providing free shipping to Japan.
Emergency items that can be donated and immediately dispatched include LED floodlights, waterproof flashlights, hand-held two-way radios, portable LED lamps, blankets, sleeping bags, tents, and radios. To send these much-needed relief supplies to Japan, donors are invited to go to AliExpress.com and select items from the “Japan Earthquake and Tsunami Relief” category. Cash donations to the Red Cross One Foundation can also be made from the site.
AliExpress is the wholesale products platform of Alibaba.com. Users may join and use AliExpress free of charge.
http://www.aliexpress.com/activities/japan_relief.html
About Alibaba.com
Alibaba.com (HKSE: 1688) (1688.HK) is the flagship company of Alibaba Group. Founded in 1999 in Hangzhou, China, Alibaba.com makes it easy for millions of buyers and suppliers around the world to do business online. Alibaba.com forms a community of more than 56 million registered users in more than 240 countries and regions. Alibaba.com has offices in more than 60 cities across Greater China, India, Japan, Korea, Europe and the United States