500,000 Quake Victims Without Aid

[callady]

Half a million survivors of the south Asia earthquake have yet to receive relief supplies, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said today.

Hundreds of remote villages have yet to receive help and there are growing fears that with the onset of winter, exposure and infections could push the death toll from the October 8 earthquake well above the current total of 54,000, the WFP said.

The organisation's executive director, James Morris, said the relief effort was one of the most challenging the world had ever faced.

"The aid agencies have managed to give some help to hundreds of thousands of people, but there are an estimated half a million more people out there in desperate need, who no one has managed to reach," he said from Dubai.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/naturaldisasters/story/0,7369,1595116,00.html

[Angry Girl]

1. It's winter in the Himalayas, guys... Please help!

http://nightweed.com/pakistan_victim_aid.html

[uppityperson]

2. MSF is a really good group.

I support them. And the ACLU.
Edited to make it MSF, not MSR, typed wrong letter before. sorry

[Angry Girl]

3. Who's that? Mountain Search & Rescue? Do you have a link?

I'll put it on the page.

[uppityperson]

4. Medecins San Frontieres-Doctors Without Borders

http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/
Article about what they are doing in Pakistan. http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/news/2005/10-18-2005.cfm

They operate all over the world, do good things, non-religious, using a great percentage of the money they get. If I were going to volunteer with an organized group, it would be them.

[Angry Girl]

5. DOH! Yeah, I got 'em! One of my favs! !!

[callady]

6. Doctors Without Borders

One of the best relief Orgs. in the world. Very little red tape and little bureaucracy. Dedicated to the core with no political agenda.

They are one of the very few marquee groups out there that deserve regular contributions.
(Many grassroots orgs. need and deserve $)
Thanks for your links.