Following the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami , the original developers at Worldnomads created a program with a checkbox on a single web site , which invited customers to add two Australian dollars donation a charity during the purchase of a travel insurance policy . Within a few months this had raised $ 50,000 . The program was later re-engineered so that people could donate to location-specific , project based initiatives , which improved collections . As of 2018 the group has raised over $ 4 million
2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
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