Help Pakistan

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All information copy-pasted from Shakesville:

Number of the Day:

20 million. The number of people in need of shelter, food, and/or emergency care because of the flooding, in Pakistan alone. Four million people are now homeless.

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon describes the flooding as a "slow-motion tsunami" and notes that the number of people who have been displaced and/or need food or healthcare "is more than the entire population hit by the Indian Ocean tsunami, the Kashmir earthquake, Cyclone Nargis, and the earthquake in Haiti—combined."

Quote of the Day:

"The rains are continuing and [with] each hour that passes the flooding is multiplying misery across the entire country. This is a mega disaster and it needs a mega response."—Neva Khan, Oxfam country director in Pakistan. "To date, only five countries—Britain, the US, Australia, Italy and Kuwait—have committed or pledged more than $5m in new funding."


Donations are urgently needed. You can find out how to help here.

As earlier this year with help_haiti and help_chile, someone has organized a fannish auction on LJ at help_pakistan. There's some fantastic stuff being offered right now, and I urge everyone who can to go check it out and offer or bid. (Money's tight on my end right now, or there's some stuff I would definitely bid on, most likely starting here.)

I plan to put up offers for some amigurumi later today, and will update this post with my thread then. Edit: My offers are up here for a finished amigurumi, and here for a custom pattern.

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