Angelina Jolie recently gave $100,000 to help victims of the recent floods in Pakistan out of concern that compassion fatigue might slow donations to relief organizations.
The Washington Post quoted her as saying she understands “it is getting hard for people – they see Haiti, they see these other events … and they get exhausted by the time another big one rolls around.” But she said Pakistanis face “mass death, mass displacement, and this situation is going to get worse.”
It is hard to keep an open heart (and wallet) when so many devastating events have happened one after another this year. But that is also an easy excuse to check out.
The gross national income per person in Pakistan is $369.70. About a dollar a day. In these kinds of posts people usually compare stuff to a cup of coffee or something. But, jeez, a buck? Even mini-mart coffee costs more than that. A small donation goes a long way. (Of course, they have to rent helicopters to deliver a lot of the materials needed, so no one’s gonna turn down a large donation. Just so you know…)
In case you missed the pertinent details…
The United Nations has reported that more than 17 million people have been affected by the floods, and eight million of them require immediate life-saving aid. Pakistan said the floods have destroyed or damaged 1.2 million homes. More than one million people are living in tents and at least five million others are in need of emergency shelter. The UN has also stated that up to 3.5 million children are at risk from water-borne diseases and said it was bracing to deal with thousands of potential cholera cases. More than 1,500 people across Pakistan have been killed and hundreds of thousands stranded due to flash floods triggered by the ongoing spell of monsoon rains.
In the hope that you can find a few dollars to spare – one more time – we are listing Charity Navigator‘s four-star charitable organizations currently providing aid in Pakistan. We’ve included direct links to their Pakistan-related webpages as well as info from their sites regarding what kind of help they’re providing.
We know we’re always asking. But it’s only because there are so many good people willing to do something good, tell people about it, and then do it again! Thanks. Again.
Action Against Hunger
Our first priority is to contain the spread of deadly water-borne illnesses while we work to rehabilitate water networks and distribution systems. Action Against Hunger | ACF International’s field teams will provide access to clean water through water trucking, repair water points, disinfect contaminated sources, and distribute purification tablets. Our emergency response will also include constructing emergency latrines and public sanitation facilities, distributing thousands of hygiene kits, organizing hygiene promotion campaigns, and helping communities clear the streets of rubble and debris.
ActionAid International
ActionAid is currently working in seven districts providing food and hygiene and household kits, targeting the most vulnerable.
American Jewish World Service
AJWS grantee partners in Pakistan are saving lives by mobilizing emergency support for victims of the flooding and helping to prevent the spread of disease. They are erecting temporary shelters for those whose homes have been destroyed, facilitating access to clean drinking water in government relief camps and working with local and national government authorities to expedite the relief process.
AmeriCares
The latest AmeriCares airlift contains more than $500,000 worth of critical medical aid to help survivors of the devastating floods. The shipment includes medicines and medical supplies to help people suffering from serious infections, pain, fever and injuries.
CHF International
In Pakistan we are focusing our efforts on preparing for reconstruction, for example, repairing roads and irrigation systems, and applying our expertise at agriculture, for example, helping to reduce the extensive damage done by the massive silting of agricultural land in the floods.
Concern Worldwide
Concern Worldwide is now helping 500,000 people in Pakistan. We’re working in many areas across the country, providing essential food and supplies to those people in most need.
Convoy of Hope
Convoy of Hope has sent funds to its partners on the ground to purchase emergency supplies and is deploying a relief team to the area.
Doctors Without Borders
To curb the possible outbreak of waterborne diseases, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is ramping up the distribution of clean water in larger towns and remote villages located throughout the Charsadda, Swat, Nowshera, Lower Dir, and Dargai districts in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. In the coming days, MSF will also start water and sanitation activities in Sindh and Baluchistan provinces as well.
Episcopal Relief and Development
Episcopal Relief & Development will be contributing through the ACT Alliance’s general appeal for those affected by the recent flooding in Pakistan. Disaster response activities will help vulnerable people in the provinces of Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa, Balochistan and Sindh. ACT is working through local implementing partners to provide food and other critical items to over 86,500 people, shelter kits for 25,500 persons, and health care to 36,500 individuals.
Food for the Hungry
Your help makes a difference and supports our relief efforts in providing emergency supplies to families displaced from their homes, many whom have lost everything but the clothes they’re wearing.
World Food Programme
As floodwaters continue to wreak havoc across Pakistan, hundreds of thousands of people have been cut off from help. WFP is stepping up airlifts of food and supplies for these isolated communities and bringing in more helicopters. Three new ones arrived on Sunday.
Giving Children Hope|
Giving Children Hope will be distributing relief medical supplies and equipment to three medical centers and mobile medical clinics located in Peshawar, Pakistan, the capital of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province- one of the hardest hit by the flood.
Global Fund for Children
In solidarity with our partners, Shangla Development Society, Aware Girls, De Laas Gul Welfare Programme (DLG), and Potohar Organization for Development Advocacy (PODA), The Global Fund for Children has mobilized emergency funding for each organization, which has helped them to collect and deliver essential bedding, clothing, food, and clean water to families in northern and northwestern Pakistan.
GlobalGiving
Immediate support for 3,000 families through clean drinking water, mosquito nets, water coolers for safe drinking water, and hygiene promotion.
International Rescue Committee
The International Rescue Committee is delivering blankets and other urgently needed items to flood victims and working to thwart outbreaks of waterborne disease.
Islamic Relief USA
While more than 500 Islamic Relief staff-members work to deliver aid and supplies to flood victims, Islamic Relief USA is coordinating a $23 million aid shipment filled with medical supplies and medicines to benefit the victims.
MAP International
With a cash gift you can provide essential medicines and relief supplies to charitable mission hospitals and emergency medical teams in some of the worst affected districts of Pakistan.
Medical Teams International
Medical Teams International is responding to the disastrous flooding in Pakistan by providing essential medicines and supplies. Three containers of medical supplies have been shipped to Medical Teams International partners in the flood-affected area of the country. The medicines and supplies are enough to help hundreds of thousands of people and are valued at nearly $2 million. We shipped four more containers the week of August 9 bringing the total value of shipments to nearly $5 million. An additional five containers will be shipped in September bringing the total value of all the shipments to nearly $8 million.
Operation USA
Through a well-developed network of local partner agencies, Operation USA is working to provide critical medical aid, water purification tablets and shelter relief to those made most vulnerable by the devastation, with an emphasis on the needs of women and children.
Oxfam America
Oxfam and our partners have launched a rapid-relief effort to reach more than one million people with essential aid. Despite major damage to the region’s transportation and communication systems, we are installing latrines and water-storage tanks and delivering clean water by truck to prevent deadly waterborne diseases from sweeping through communities of displaced people.
Relief International
Since Friday, July 30, Relief International has been providing immediate humanitarian relief through emergency health services and the provision of clean water, shelter and emergency supplies to families affected by the heavy rains and floods in Pakistan.
Samaritan’s Purse
We are distributing food packages as well as hygiene items, cooking utensils, Bibles, bedding, clothing, and medicine.
Save the Children|
*Save the Children has negotiating partnerships with the World Food Program to help feed up to 85,000 families.
*Mobile and stationary medical teams provide emergency medical care to thousands of children and adults, especially women.
*We will be providing water purification tablets, which families can use to purify drinking water. Our teams will ensure that families know how to treat water to make it safe.
*We provided 11,800 people in Swat with tents, shelter kits, and other essential materials. In Dera Ismail Khan, over 9,600 people are being sheltered in tents from Save the Children.
* Save the Children’s highest priority for the coming weeks is to save children’s lives and rush food, water, shelter materials, medical care and other essentials to affected communities.
United Methodist Committee on Relief
UMCOR is responding to the Pakistan floods by providing clean drinking water, food, temporary shelter, and medical aid to tens of thousands of people in collaboration with Church of Pakistan, Church World Service, and GlobalMedic.
United States Fund for UNICEF
Food, clean water and health supplies are desperately needed. UNICEF has already
* provided hygiene kits, water tankers and high-energy biscuits;
* repaired 73 tube wells benefitting 800,000 people; and
* helped set up 24 medical camps benefitting an estimated 1 million people.
World Vision
You’ll enable World Vision to continue meeting the basic needs of flood survivors by supplying emergency food, clean water, shelter, medical care, and more. And you’ll help World Vision support Pakistan for the long-haul, through programs to improve nutrition, health care, shelter, and economic development.
Not evaluated by Charity Navigator, but certainly an excellent way to reach out to the people of Pakistan:
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) will help the Pakistan Red Crescent Society to reach over 900,000 people. This assistance includes emergency relief, tents and shelter kits, medical care, clean water and improved sanitation, as well as help to restore livelihoods in the coming months.
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