Food for Pakistan

Thursday, August 19th, 2010

Moe Razvi, a leader in the local Pakistani community, emails over this flyer. His organization is based on Coney just south of Glenwood.

If you want to give money for relief of that country’s horrendous floods, the State Department has just set up a relief fund. You can give $10 by texting “FLOOD” to 27722.

UPDATE: Commenter Matt notes that Moe was on NPR this morning, talking about some of the subtler political aspects of the situation.

- Ben

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