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This is a rare opportunity to save lives and establish personal relationships in a region where we desperately need friends.

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Children are Freezing

Are there Sleeping Bags in Your Attic?

Problem: Millions of displaced earthquake victims in Pakistan and Kashmir are in danger of freezing to death. Snow will soon fall on shelterless people.

Solution: Emergency airlift of life-saving camping gear.

Your Mission: Organize friends and family to gather good quality tents, sleeping bags and blankets and send them, with goodwill messages, to emergency collection points.

• Rally people you know. Forward this message (PDF) and direct people to QuakeHelp.net for updates.
• Send your camping gear! (Used goods are fine; but clean, warm, and good quality is essential.)
  • Between now and Nov 23, you can deliver them to North Face Retail stores around the country..
  • You can also ship directly to Kashmir Earthquake Relief, 1835 Apex Avenue, Los Angeles, CA. 90026 USA Phone: (323) 660 5400 Fax Number: (323) 660 5447.
    www.kashmirrelief.org/geardrop.html

  We are making arrangements for post-Thanksgiving dispatch solutions, and will post them here at QuakeHelp.net. For now, the most important thing is that you help us get the ball rolling. If six of your friends recruit six of their friends...

  ...by Thanksgiving, every family in America should be counting their blessings and their blankets!

  Help us organize the groundswell!
  Email QuakeHelp.net@gmail.com

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"A Wave of Aid That Doesn't Match the Disaster"

...as I lay shivering on the hard earth, too cold to sleep and cursing myself for not having brought a better sleeping bag, I could not imagine how the villagers would cope with the imminent arrival of winter and its heavy snows.

Soon we are likely to know. In the aftermath of the earthquake, which killed at least 73,000 people and left an estimated 3 million without homes, United Nations officials have warned that the death toll could rise sharply from hunger, disease and exposure.

--John Lancaster, Washington Post, Nov 13, 2005

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"Earthquake Relief: If we don't help Pakistan, al-Qaeda's friends will"

"...radical Islamic groups have vigorously opposed U.S. and international aid because they know this will weaken their propaganda efforts. In a speech last week, Jamaat's leader, Qazi Hussain Ahmed, said, "The Americans are [providing relief in Pakistan] to damage the solidarity of the country, and will work for materializing their ulterior motives."

The United States and the world community must now do nothing less than spearhead a response similar to that following the tsunami, not only for self-evident and overwhelming humanitarian needs but also for long-term national security.

--Hussein Haqqani, Globe and Mail, November 17, 2005