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Devastating floods have affected the lives of millions of people in Pakistan. To assist in the response efforts, the San Deigo based mobile chip maker Qualcomm has made a $50,000 donation to Oxfam America’s Pakistan Flood Relief and Recovery Fund.
Oxfam America and its partners are currently working to provide safe evacuation to hundreds of thousands of people, and providing clean water, food, and sanitation facilities for tens of thousands of displaced and stranded survivors.
Reported by: Saibrina Akhtar
To find out if your company has a matching program, please visit our Corporate Response page here.
Call to Action: Help #Hash the Floods …
Twitter users, wondering how you can help the Pakistan Flood Relief cause? Here is one way: re-tweet one of the following tweets …
Twitter Campaign 1 …Corporate Matching Funds:
It’s about Us, Acting Now, for Them…HELP #Pkfloods victims. Get ur company to match: http://bit.ly/acNtU0 #<Companu> #<company> (via @arrafiq)
Replace <company> with names of a well known Fortune 1000 corporation. Make sure you to leave (via @arrafiq), that will enable us to track the campaign.
Twitter Campaign 2 … Call for donations:
It’s about Us, Acting Now, for Them…HELP #Pkfloods victims. Donate to: http://ow.ly/2xgBJ #<Popular Hashtag> #<Popular Hashtagy> (via @arrafiq)
Replace <Popular Hashtag> with a popular Twitter hashtag, preferably a trending tag
“Pakistan Then and Now” Montage
PayPal Credits Transaction Fee for PK Relief
To support those impacted by the Pakistan disaster, PayPal will credit transactional fees incurred from July 29 to September 23, 2010, to any US 501(c)(3) organization or Canada Revenue Agency registered charity raising money to aid Pakistan relief.
All organizations collecting for disaster relief in Pakistan are eligible to receive fee credits. These will be issued for qualifying US 501c3 and Canada Revenue Agency registered charities raising funds for Pakistan relief between July 29 and September 23, an extension of the standard 30 days since the disaster has unfolded over weeks. Please send an e-mail to nonprofit@paypal.com for fee credit consideration. Continue reading.
Having said that online donations collected for the 4×4 OFF-ROAD Relief Campaign are being done by Paksef (Pakistan Science & Engineering Foundation) a 501(c)(3) non-profit Corporation in California.
4×4 OFF ROADERS Mission 3 to Thatta
Convoy on the way to thatta with 20,000, (7155 of these packed till 2am last night) ready to eat meals comprising of one sheermal, 2 packets of chips, 4 packets of biscuits, 1 carton of milk, 1 bottle of mineral water, 1 packet of dates to feed the exodus moving out of thatta towards hyderabad Awab Alvi and Faisal Kapadia would like to thank all the volunteers who helped us till late last night, you are inspiring!!
Click to watch live updates via Twiter and GPS
Benefit Qawaali for Flood Relief at Indus Valley School, Karachi
Join us for an evening of devotional music at Indus Valley School as Fareed Ayaz & Brothers pay tribute to legendary Sufi poets and thinkers, ranging from Hazrat Amir Khusrau to Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi. Fareed Ayaz’s qavvaal party belongs to the 705 year old “Qavvaal Bachon Ka Gharana” of Delhi. They are the sons of the legendary Munshi Raziuddin and are internationally acclaimed as being amongst the finest qavvaals of the sub-continent. To better understand this form of devotional, Sufi music read: Soul Music, article printed May 2006 in Newsline
When: Saturday, August 28, 2010 at 10:30pm
Venue: Indus Valley School of Art & Architecture
Minimum Donation: Rs. 1,000
Passes Now Available: T2F, Espresso, Nando’s (Boat Basin & SMCHS), Indus Valley School
For information contact: PeaceNiche
Flood Relief Mission #2
Submitted by Awab Alvi
As customary to our Relief trips to the flooded areas, Faisal Kapadia and I will be live GPS tracking and Live Tweeting all along the way. Our plan is to depart Karachi on the morning of Sunday 22nd August accompany a convoy of 8 relief good trucks, be joined by 7-8 accompanying vehicles with around 25 odd volunteers to head to Shikarpur. We hope to offload all the goods in a secure warehouse in Shikarpur and from there strategically disburse the relief to deserved people in the area.
As different from the previous CoverItLive we launched last time, our emphasis is to concentrate / share tweets from only the people taking part in this particular mission and the readers will not be bothered or overwhelmed by the other twitter chatter. Continue Reading.
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Us Now: 8/29 Bay Area Fund & Awareness Raiser
“I will never forget the destruction and suffering I have witnessed today. In the past I have witnessed many natural disasters around the world, but nothing like this.” – Ban Ki-Moon, UN Secretary General.
If Not Us, Who?
If Not Now, When?
Join us on Sunday August 29th, at an Iftar and Dinner Gathering as we raise funds for and awareness of the plight of 20 million Pakistanis affected by the worst floods in the history of our nation.
This event is sponsored and supported by Bay Area Organizations including OPEN SV, SA Relief, APPNA, Mashal, TCF, DIL, HDF, Your DIL, PACC, and SV-PAK.
Donations:
- 100% of your donations (with NO deduction for event costs) will benefit a relief organization of your choice from the following:
- Relief International [check payable to"Relief International"]
- Islamic Relief [check payable to"Islamic Relief"]
- APPNA [check payable to"APPNA"]
- American Red Cross [check payable to "American Red Cross"]
- The Citizens Foundation [Check payable to "TCF"]
- Hidaya Foundation [check payable to "Hidaya"]
- HumanityFirst [check payable to "HumanityFirst"
- Developments in literacy (DIL) [check payable to "Developments In Literacy"]
- Human Development Fund (HDF) [Check payable to "Human Development Fund"]
All cheques will be payable directly to the organization you choose. On the check’s memo line, write: “ATTN: Pakistan Flood Relief”
You can also donate online to one of the four charities (specifying, “Pak Flood Relief” as your casue). Email us that receipt and your table/seat will be reserved.
Corporate Donation Matching Program: If your company has a dollar match for donations, you can fully use this program in purchasing tables or seats as well as in day of event donations, since all donations are to be made directly to charities listed above (and one or more of which will be in your company’s approved list).
Indus Flood Relief Drive by Himal Fund, Nepal
INDUS FLOOD RELIEF
Himal Southasian fund collection drive
in partnership with Standard Chartered Bank Nepal
The floods raging through Pakistan at the moment have affected more people than the 2005 Kashmir earthquake, the 2006 Asian tsunami, and the 2010 Haiti earthquake combined.
Himal Southasian and Standard Chartered Bank Nepal have set up a fund in Kathmandu for people from Southasia and elsewhere seeking to support the ongoing relief efforts in Pakistan. Please avail this facility to send money to the victims of flood along the Indus. No administrative charges will be applied to your support; every paisa will be transferred to trusted organisations in Pakistan for the benefit of the flood victims.
4×4 Off-Roader Relief Expedition: Notes from Kot Addu & Sukkur
Both Awab and I recently went on separate trips to Kot Addu and Sukkur, into just some of the areas affected by the flood. I think that by now, the scale of the disaster is hitting people- even Ban Ki Moon’s statement sent everyone scurrying for ideas and strategies to deal with the flood. The food relief truck I went with was organized by Saad Sarfraz Sheikh, an inspiring photographer and friend, who pulled in food through donations, and had someone arrange for a truck to transport it all to Kot Addu. I must also mention that even now, Saad’s father remains trapped at the PARCO refinery in the Kot Addu area.
I realize that we’re going through the greatest natural disaster that we’ve gone through- ever, and what’s more important, is that the world is realizing this as well. Rather than going into the usual analysis-paralysis of why the floods were so bad this year, or why the politicians are so indifferent, this article candidly shares what Awab and I have learned from our short trips into the field (Awab is more experienced with relief work, since he also helped out with earthquake and army-operation refugees earlier). I’m also cowriting this with him so that we share experiences from different affected floodzones. If you are working in Balochistan or Khyber Pakhtunwa or any of the many, many regions that we aren’t please get in touch or just write your thoughts out as a comment. No time for formalities here. Continue reading at Teeth Maestro