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Pakistan Floods 2010 – How to Donate
August 16th, 2010 / 13 Comments » / by Nabiha
Pakistan Floods 2010 in Pictures. To scale how the devastation compares to your locality, city or country or any other place in the world, use this amazing tool from BBC.
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According to rough estimates, the number of victims in Pakistan floods has reached 13.8 million. The floods in Pakistan, which have killed at least 1,200 people so far, are already the world’s second worst in the decade from 2001 to August 2010, according to the Belgium-based Centre for Research on Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED).
Floods in Pakistan have affected more people than those displaced in the 2005 Asian Tsunami and the deadly earthquakes in South Asia and Haiti combined, the United Nations said. The number of homes destroyed or seriously damaged is 290,000, it said. The U.N. will issue an appeal for several hundred million dollars of aid for Pakistan.
Please lend a hand to those in need. Your donations could make the lives of many Pakistanis better. As the Qur’an says:
“Whosoever kills a human being, except (as punishment) for murder or for spreading corruption in the land, it shall be like killing all humanity; and whosoever saves a life, saves the entire human race.” (Al Qur’an 5:32)
You can also donate on-line to ”The People’s Disaster Management Authority (TPDMA)“. Follow Nuzhat S. Siddiqui on twitter who is one of the volunteers heading these efforts. You can further contact them via e-mail:
nuzhat@tpdma.org | soufia@tpdma.org | aftab@tpdma.org
Cell-phone users can now donate via sms:
For Pakistani citizens:
- SMS “FUND” to 1234 to donate PKR 10 in the Prime Minister’s Relief Fund
- SMS “D” to 247 to donate PKR 10 to the Express Helpline Trust for flood relief. (Updated)
- Text “FLOOD” to 27722 to support victims in Pakistan. (Thanks to @twitter for the tweet) (Updated)
- Text “PUKAAR” to 4361 to donate to Imran Khan‘s Flood Relief efforts. (Updated)
For U.S.A. citizens:
- Hillary Clinton announced that Americans could text the word “SWAT” to the number 50555 to donate $10 per SMS message to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees to provide tents, clothing, food, clean water and medicine to Pakistan.
For Canadian citizens:
- Canadian wireless subscribers: Text “REDCROSS” to 30333 to donate $10 to the Canadian Red Cross.
For U.K. citizens:
- Text ‘GIVE’ to 70707 to donate £5
- (Oxfam) Readers in the United Kingdom can send donations through text messaging as well. To donate by text message, text ‘DONATE’ to 70066 to give £5.
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