Pakistan, Guatemala, Difficulty with enormity of disaster.

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10 Oct 2005, 7:24 am

The scale of these disasters have gone off my personal register. Entire villages in Guatemala declared mass graves. Pakistan I cannot comprehend, entire generations gone.



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10 Oct 2005, 7:47 am

I can't imagine what the Guatemalan disaster must have been like - a wall of mud burying whole villages as they slept. The Pakistan earthquake has had a massive impact - there are over 4 million homeless. Back here in Bradford the Kashmiri/Mirpuri community is devastated, many have lost family and friends as it is their home region which has been flattened. :(


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10 Oct 2005, 10:18 am

puts a lot of things into perspective, doesn't it?

to donate to the pakistan/south asia earthquake fund (UNICEF):

https://www.unicef.org.uk/common/wp_don ... p=55093001

i'm still trying to find a specific fund for guatemala, but the red cross (red crescent, in muslim countries) will be giving aid there:

http://www.redcross.org.uk



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10 Oct 2005, 1:00 pm

Cheers vivi,
Donations to both disater funds can be made through http://www.ifrc.org/
The ICRC page lacks the links to red crescent societies