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           All Undergrad Students & All Grad Students <everybody@illinois.edu> 
    From: "Office of the Chancellor" <chancellor@uiuc.edu>

Reply-To: chancellor@uiuc.edu
 Subject: MASSMAIL - Earthquake Relief

Date:        October 15, 2006

To:          Members of the Campus Community

From:        Office of the Chancellor

Re:          Earthquake Relief

An earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale rocked parts of Pakistan, 
India and Afghanistan on Saturday, October 8, 2005.  The number of deaths 
is over 30,000 with tens of thousands of injured survivors and over 
4 million people displaced and in dire need of relief services. The 
monumental effort required in order to handle such a disaster has been 
further hampered by torrential rains and mudslides across the highly 
remote mountainous terrain, and winter is approaching.  

The Pakistani Students Association (PSA) in collaboration with other 
Registered Student Organizations has arranged fund-raising events across 
campus in order to help the plight of the South Asian people affected by 
the earthquake. Donation boxes will be set up around campus over the next 
few days for those wishing to donate money to the cause. Additionally, the 
PSA and other RSO's are currently in the process of planning other fund-
raising events for the relief fund; information regarding them will be on 
the PSA website: <http://www.uiuc.edu/ro/pak> as well as on posters and 
flyers across campus.  The campus community is encouraged to support these 
and other efforts to help the victims of this disaster.

All donations collected by the PSA are being sent directly to the Edhi 
Foundation, which is the largest philanthropic organization in Pakistan.  
The PSA chose the Edhi Foundation in particular as the recipient for its 
donations due to the organization's unequalled relief network and 
resources within Pakistan.  Checks should be addressed to: Edhi Foundation

For more information regarding the Edhi Foundation please contact:
USA Edhi International Foundation
42-07 National Street
Corona, New York, 11368 USA
Tel:  (718) 639-5120
Fax: (718) 335-1978
The url is http://www.paks.net/edhi-foundation/noffabroad.html

For information regarding the local Champaign-Urbana effort please contact:
Ahmad Zakaria	zakaria1@uiuc.edu	(217) 721-3682
Ahsan Rizvi	rizvi@uiuc.edu	        (217) 220-0244
Safi Sandila	sandila@uiuc.edu	(217) 721-4780
This mailing approved by:
The Office of the Chancellor

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