ADC Calls on YOU to Support Pakistan Flood Victims

Washington, DC | www.adc.org | August 20, 2010 – The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) calls on all people to extend support to the 20+ million people affected by the worst monsoon floods in Pakistan's history. These floods are the most devastating natural disaster in recent history with 20% of the country submurged (imagine Texas, Louisiana, New Mexico and Arkansas all underwater).

The United Nations has characterized the destruction caused by the floods in Pakistan as greater than the damage from the 2004 Asian tsunami, the 2005 Pakistan earthquake, and the 2010 Haiti earthquake combined. Yet nearly three weeks since the floods began, aid is trickling in slowly and reluctantly to the United Nations, NGOs, and the Pakistani government.

Pakistani victims need a lot more help and they need it NOW!

Please contact the following relief organizations, for information on how you can help:

American Red Cross
800-RED-CROSS (800-733-2767)

Care
800-422-7385

Department of State’s Pakistan Relief Fund
Text the word FLOOD to 27722 to donate $10

Doctors Without Borders
(Médecins Sans Frontiéres)
888-392-0392

Global Fund for Women
415.248.4800

Islamic Relief USA
888-479-4968

Mercy Corps
888-256-1900

Oxfam America
800-77-OXFAM (800-776-9326)
617-482-1211

Save the Children
800-728-3843

UNICEF
1.800.FOR.KIDS (1.800.367.5437)

UNHRC- The UN Refugee Agency
Text "SWAT" to 50555 to donate $10

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Contact: adc@adc.org
202-244-2990

NOTE TO EDITORS: The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), which is non-profit, non-sectarian and non-partisan, is the largest Arab-American civil rights organization in the United States. It was founded in 1980 by former Senator James Abourezk to protect the civil rights of people of Arab descent in the United States and to promote the cultural heritage of the Arabs. ADC has 38 chapters nationwide, including chapters in every major city in the country, and members in all 50 states.

The ADC Research Institute (ADC-RI), which was founded in 1981, is a Section 501(c)(3) educational organization that sponsors a wide range of programs on behalf of Arab Americans and of importance to all Americans. ADC-RI programs include research studies, seminars, conferences and publications that document and analyze the discrimination faced by Arab Americans in the workplace, schools, media, and governmental agencies and institutions. ADC-RI also celebrates the rich cultural heritage of the Arabs.