Solution Zone - 09/02/10

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PAKISTAN DEADLY FLOODS – Why Doesn’t the World Care? http://www.relief4pakistan.com/

One fifth of Pakistan is submurged under water. The flooding has caused the most devastating natural disaster in recent memory – surpassing the Haiti earthquake, and the 2004 Tsunami. 20 million people are in need of aid, yet donated are amazingly low. Compared to 31 million  raised by americans  for the Red Cross in the Haiti earthquake,  the American Red Cross only been able to raise $10,000 for Pakistan's flood relief?  We discuss the reasons.

Snehal Shingavi:  Assistant professor of South Asian literature at the University of Texas in Austin. He writes extensively about India and Pakistan for such publications as Counter Punch, Z Net, the International Socialist Review, and Left Hoo. 

PAKISTAN FLOOD AID – WHERE TO DONATE

These groups are doing great work, and where your donation will be used well:

Mercy Corps: http://www.relief4pakistan.com/

UN Relief: World Food Program: https://www.wfp.org/donate/pakistanflood

UNICEF: http://www.supportunicef.org/site/pp.asp?c=9fLEJSOALpE&b=1023561

UNHCR: http://www.unhcr.org/emergency/pakistanfloods/global_landing.html

http://www.savethechildren.org/emergencies/asia/pakistan-floods-2010/
Pakistani civil society:

* TCF Relief: Donate here: http://www.thecitizensfoundation.org/floodrelief.html

* Edhi Foundation. Contact here: http://www.edhifoundation.com/contact.asp

* Karachi Relief Trust. Contact/Donate here: http://www.karachirelief.org/donation.htm

International Organizations and NGO’s

* UK’s Disaster Emergency Committee (DEC), which is an alliance of 13 British NGOs, including British Red Cross, Action Aid, Merlin, Oxfam, Islamic Relief and Christian Aid. You can donate here: http://www.dec.org.uk/donate_now/

* UNHCR, which is a UN organization, with whom I have worked directly on several occasions, is the UN’s premier humanitarian organization. You can donate to UNHCR’s Pakistan flood fund, here: http://www.unhcr.org/emergency/pakistan/global_landing.html

* Islamic Relief has one of the lowest administrative cost ratios among all international humanitarian NGOs. You can donate here: https://www.islamicreliefusa.org/SSLPage.aspx?pid=499

* International Committee of the Red Cross/Crescent. Donate online, here: http://www.icrc.org/web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/iwpList2/Help_the_ICRC?