Flood-ravaged Pakistan faces donor fatigue

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38737376/ns/world_news-south_and_central_asia/

By Kamran Haider
updated 8/17/2010 11:09:53 AM ET

ISLAMABAD — Only a small fraction of the 6 million Pakistanis desperate for food and clean water have received any help as the United Nations battled donor fatigue and appealed urgently on Tuesday for more funds.

With hundreds of villages marooned and highways and bridges cut in half by swollen rivers, food rations and access to clean water have only been provided to around 500,000 million flood survivors, the U.N. said.

The United Nations has warned that up to 3.5 million children could be in danger of contracting deadly diseases carried through contaminated water and insects in a crisis that has disrupted the lives of at least a tenth of Pakistan's 170 million people.

"We have a country which has endemic watery diarrhea, endemic cholera, endemic upper respiratory infections and we have the conditions for much much expanded problems," Daniel Toole, UNICEF Regional Director for South Asia, told a news conference.

"We cannot spend pledges. We cannot buy purification tablets, we cannot support Pakistan with pledges. I urge the international community to urgently change pledges into checks."

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The following link has links to organizations providing aid to Pakistan.
It is a Canadian news outlook, so some of the organizations are the Canadian branches of international organizations.
I am trying to find an equivalent list for the U.S.
I never donate for a specific disaster, because often more is donated than is needed for a highly publicized disaster, then when there are subsequent disasters, there are fewer donations.


http://www.cbc.ca/canada/new-brunswick/story/2010/08/18/pei-red-cross-floods-584.html

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