1.   The World Food Program, a U.N. relief agency, at first supplied sustenance to volcano victims in camps set up miles away from Goma in the Rwandan countryside.

2.   And Paul McCartney, Sting and Eric Clapton drew a capacity crowd in London for a concert to benefit volcano victims on the island of Montserrat.

3.   Musicians who have made music on the Caribbean island of Montserrat are gathering to help volcano victims.

4.   The Japanese also have donated medical equipment and medicine to all hospitals treating volcano victims, he added.

5.   The volcano victims earlier had refused to move as the tradition-bound Javanese did not want to abandon their farmland, made fertile by the volcanic soil.