A humanitarian catastrophe of terrifying proportions is unfolding in Pakistan, with a fifth of the country under water, and millions of people homeless and desperately needing assistance.
Some relief efforts are underway, but the international response to the mega-disaster has been irresponsibly slow and weak — the UN has urgently appealed for $460 million of vital aid, but just 60% has been committed. Relief workers warn that without an immediate increase in aid the death toll could sky-rocket.
With the expert advice of leading humanitarian NGOs on the ground, we’ll offer donations to trusted local organizations, including: Hirrak Development Centre (HDC) and Participatory Welfare Services (PWS).
With these partners on the ground our community will help provide much needed humanitarian aid. 100% of the funds raised will go directly to helping Pakistanis cope with this disaster and strengthen their local systems. Click below to make a contribution to the Pakistan disaster relief fund:
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Avaaz.org
Avaaz.org is a new global online advocacy community that brings people-powered politics to global decision-making.
Avaaz—meaning “voice” in several European, Middle Eastern and Asian languages—was launched in January 2007 with a simple democratic mission: organize citizens everywhere to help close the gap between the world we have and the world most people want.
In 3 years, Avaaz has grown to 5.5 million members from every country on earth, becoming the largest global web movement in history.
The Economist writes of Avaaz’ power to “give world leaders a deafening wake-up call”; the Indian Express heralds “the biggest web campaigner across the world, rooting for crucial global issues.” and Suddeutsche Zeitung calls Avaaz “a transnational community that is more democratic, and could be more e ffective than the United Nations.” Run by a virtual team on 3 continents, Avaaz operates in 14 languages.
Avaaz empowers its members to take action on pressing issues of international concern, from global poverty to the crises in the Middle East to climate change. Its model of internet organising allows thousands of individual e fforts, however small, to be rapidly combined into a powerful collective force.
Since 2007, Avaaz has:
- taken over 20 million actions online and offline, including messages sent, phone calls and petition signatures, and over 70 million friends told.
- raised over $10 million online, including millions in funding and high tech support for human rights and democracy advocates in Burma, Zimbabwe, Tibet, Iran, Haiti and more.
- organized almost 10,000 rallies, flashmobs, vigils, marches and other o nline events—giving a massive boost to the climate change movement.
- won YouTube’s Best Political Video of the Year Award, and the Huffington Post’s “Ultimate Gamechanger in Politics” award.
Avaaz’s command of the tools of online organising, and its ability to simultaneously field them in every part of the world, is unique.
Former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown says Avaaz “has driven forward the idealism of the world.” Al Gore says “Avaaz is inspiring… it has already made a significant difference.” Zainab Bangura, the foreign minister of Sierra Leone, describes Avaaz as “an ally, and a rallying place, for disadvantaged people everywhere to help create real change.”
Avaaz is funded and driven by its membership.
