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* from now on, i'm taking over this blog as an eye-witness reporting blog.

Sunday, Oct 9th 2005

Ali and I went to various donation centers. Army bases were turned into make shift donation centers. People in the thousands (and i mean thouands) were giving away masses of stuff - from milk, water, biscuits, to blankets, cell phones and cereal. I have never seen people give so generously before. At the base i was at, in 5 hours people have away enough stuff to fill four C130 aircrafts! (if u dont know C 130 are HUGE ARMY aircraft for transporting entire armies).

Also spoke to Faisal Edhi on the phone today (son of Abdul Satar Edhi - the man who runs Pakistans biggest chiarity and operates the worlds largest network of ambulances). He was like get whatever you can and come over. We need all the help. I've booked tickets for Islamabad. Waiting for money to come in from the awesome folks at BV, Mark and a few other advisors. Hopefully it will add up to couple of trucks worth of medicine, tents and blankets.

Once again heres the link to donate