Support Relief Efforts After Flooding in China, India, and Pakistan

As a result of the devastating flooding and subsequent landslides in India, Pakistan, and China, which started last week, more than 2,000 people have died across all three countries, thousands are still missing, and millions of people have been affected. According to CNN, more than 150 people have died and more than 400 are missing just in the town of Leh, India alone.

Large swaths of Asia look like New Orleans in the immediate aftermath of Katrina:

Flood victims wave to receive food relief being dropper by Pakistan Army soldiers during air rescue and relief operations on August 9, 2010 in the Muzaffargarh district in Punjab, Pakistan. An estimated 5 million Pakistanis have been affected by the floods and are bracing for more destruction as heavy rains further bloat rivers and streams. Deadly flooding across Pakistan, has claimed the lives of more than 1,500 people and has forced hundreds of thousands from their homes, in what is the country's worst floods since 1929. [Getty Images]
People wade through floodwaters at Alampur village, about 200 km (124 miles) from the southern Indian city of Hyderabad, October 7, 2009. Rescue workers with boats and helicopters struggled on Tuesday to deliver rations to about 5 million victims of flooding triggered by torrential rains in southern India. [Reuters]
A survivor jumps into floodwaters as rescuers (background) evacuate people from flooded buildings after a deadly flood-triggered landslide hit Zhouqu, causing flooding in northwest China's Gansu province on August 8, 2010. Soldiers and rescuers battled on August 9 through an avalanche of sludge and debris as they raced to find survivors of mudslides that killed at least 127 people and left 1,300 missing in northwest China. [Getty Images]
As after any disaster of this proportion, relief agencies are in need of donations.

Donate to Doctors Without Borders, about whose efforts in the region you can read here. Donate to CARE.org here.

Please feel welcome to make recommendations of other relief agencies you like in comments.

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