Rotary District 9800
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Pakistan Relief Through Disaster Aid Relief
According to the United Nations, 6 million survivors urgently require aid in the form of shelter, food and clean water. This catastrophic flooding is bigger than Haiti, the China earthquake and the Burma cyclones. Reports reveal that up to 14 million or 8 per cent of the population have been disrupted or affected.
Through Disaster Aid Australia, District 9800 would like to support the Pakistan flood victims NOW. Disaster Aid Australia can accept your donation by phone, fax or mail.
Call Disaster Aid Australia at 1300 881 913 for credit card donations.
Download and print Disaster Aid Australia's Donation form and send in via fax or by mail.
For more information on Disaster Aid Australia visit their website at http://disasteraidaustralia.org.au/
Alternatively, Aquabox Australia is requesting donations to replenish reserves here in Australia. Currently all existing aquaboxes have been guaranteed to Pakistan's relief efforts.
Donations can be made by visiting their website at http://www.aquabox.com.au
News and Updates |
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Disaster Aid Australia - You gave and we delivered:15 September 2010 “Our first tents were assembled in Chocki Town where everything was flattened except the school but the 275 students now have no school equipment” said Australian DART Peter Clouting who is on his third deployment. “The headmaster sought refuge from the floods on top of a mosque where he stayed for four days until a helicopter rescued him” he said. Read more |
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God bless all Australian Rotarians24 September 2010 Australian Rotarian and Disaster Aid Australia Response Team member (DART) Keith Robins reflects on meeting the first recipient of a DAA Family Survival Pack donated by Australians. “Today we met the first recipient of a DAA Family Survival Pack – Anwar and his family are amongst Pakistan’s poorest. He earns his living from collecting scrap and lost his home and all his possessions. He and his wife escaped the floods by wading through neck high water, carrying their children, one of whom is mentally retarded. Shogan is paralysed from the waist down and only looks about two years old but is actually seven. As Anwar is so poor, little Shogan has been under-nourished since birth. The family has received no assistance for him and their only way of transporting him since birth is to carry him... Read more |
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