Huge Boost for Pakistan Emergency Aid (Action Against Hunger)

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
NOVEMBER 10, 2005
5:31 PM
CONTACT: Action Against Hunger
John Sauer, [phone] x 103 Email: [e-mail]

Huge Boost for Pakistan Emergency Aid

ISLAMABAD - November 10 - A large-scale helicopter is scheduled to begin emergency aid deliveries tomorrow to areas of Pakistan devastated by last month’s 7.6-magnitude earthquake and currently inaccessible via roads closed by landslides. The newly arrived helicopter is capable of carrying 10 times the weight of choppers used previously in Pakistan for humanitarian rescue.

The United Nations has imported the MI-26 Russian helicopter specifically to deliver emergency food rations to isolated villages and for road reconstruction. Four more MI-26s are expected shortly.

Until now, humanitarian deliveries have been made chiefly by MI-8 helicopters that can carry a maximum weight of two metric tons. MI-26s can carry 20 metric tons.

Tomorrow’s food delivery via MI-26 will be made by Action Against Hunger (ACF), an international non-profit aid organization, working with the United Nations’ World Food Program. The huge chopper will join MI-8s to deliver 140 tons of such nutritional essentials as wheat flour, oil, salt, and high-energy biscuits.

Continued @ http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/1110-18.htm

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1. Go UN!

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2. And Action Against Hunger!

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3. Yes - Amazing how the UN & non-governmental organizations seem

somehow experienced and attached to solving certain problems EVEN WHEN THE CAMERAS ARE OFF! Hmm. Almost like they are the experts in the field? I wonder why? Oh yes - because they are experts in the field!

Look for Bolton to be dropped in by parachute the moment this Action Against Hunger gang get some news coverage.