Deadline for matching Pakistan donations nears
Last Updated: Sunday, October 3, 2010 | 8:03 PM ET
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A Pashtun girl displaced by floods nearly two months ago carries her sibling at a relief camp in Charsadda in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Sunday. (Faisal Mahmood/Reuters)The federal government's program to match donations from Canadians for victims of Pakistan's floods ends midnight Sunday.
The Pakistan Flood Relief Fund was announced Aug. 2 and was extended last month to midnight on Oct. 3.
The government said it would match, dollar for dollar, money given by Canadians for relief operations in Pakistan. The Canadian International Development Agency will allocate the money to established Canadian and international humanitarian and development organizations, the government said.
Heavy monsoon rains in Pakistan caused floods that began in late July, killing 1,700 people and displacing millions of people who are in need of emergency assistance.
Last month, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon described the floods as "one of the biggest, most complex natural disasters we have faced in the history of the United Nations."
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