News for Canadians and other updates
many of you may have already come across this:
The Honourable John Baird, Leader of the Government in the House of Commons, on behalf of the Honourable Beverley J. Oda, Minister of International Cooperation, today announced that the Government of Canada has established a Pakistan Floods Relief Fund....
"The Government of Canada will contribute an equivalent amount to the Pakistan Floods Relief Fund for every eligible donation by individual Canadians to Canadian registered charities between August 2 and September 12," said Minister Oda. "This fund will provide effective and accountable financial support to experienced Canadian and international humanitarian and development partner organizations working on humanitarian assistance, early recovery, and reconstruction efforts in the affected areas."
[source: Canadian International Development Agency, here]
Here is a link to CIDA's Pakistan Flood Relief Fund page which has more information.
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Other updates:
1. Thank you so much for the paid time for the community! Whoever you are, it is very generous of you ♥
2. We have decided to keep the pinch-hitter offering post open even after the auction closes so it will be an on-going thing. Please keep that in mind and huge amounts of thanks to those of you who have already signed yourselves up :)
3. Charities list has been updated. Thank you to everyone who has brought other organizations to my attention.
4. I would like to back fiercynn's post for pre-donations over here as it is a great initiative. We have already received some emails of confirmations at helppakistan.lj[at]gmail.com so thank you guys for the speedy response! Again, please make sure that if you decide to pre-donate, that it is an amount you are comfortable with donating even in the event that you do not win the auction. We don't want anyone to be disapponted due to any misunderstandings.
Please continue to use the questions post as a resource as we do check it regularly and thank you for being here!
The Honourable John Baird, Leader of the Government in the House of Commons, on behalf of the Honourable Beverley J. Oda, Minister of International Cooperation, today announced that the Government of Canada has established a Pakistan Floods Relief Fund....
"The Government of Canada will contribute an equivalent amount to the Pakistan Floods Relief Fund for every eligible donation by individual Canadians to Canadian registered charities between August 2 and September 12," said Minister Oda. "This fund will provide effective and accountable financial support to experienced Canadian and international humanitarian and development partner organizations working on humanitarian assistance, early recovery, and reconstruction efforts in the affected areas."
[source: Canadian International Development Agency, here]
Here is a link to CIDA's Pakistan Flood Relief Fund page which has more information.
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Other updates:
1. Thank you so much for the paid time for the community! Whoever you are, it is very generous of you ♥
2. We have decided to keep the pinch-hitter offering post open even after the auction closes so it will be an on-going thing. Please keep that in mind and huge amounts of thanks to those of you who have already signed yourselves up :)
3. Charities list has been updated. Thank you to everyone who has brought other organizations to my attention.
4. I would like to back fiercynn's post for pre-donations over here as it is a great initiative. We have already received some emails of confirmations at helppakistan.lj[at]gmail.com so thank you guys for the speedy response! Again, please make sure that if you decide to pre-donate, that it is an amount you are comfortable with donating even in the event that you do not win the auction. We don't want anyone to be disapponted due to any misunderstandings.
Please continue to use the questions post as a resource as we do check it regularly and thank you for being here!