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Clinton Aims to Save Pakistan With Text Donations

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(Newser) – Hillary Clinton is hoping text messages can save Pakistan’s Swat Valley. The Secretary of State is asking Americans to text “swat” to 20222 to make a $5 donation to help refugees from the fighting there, Foreign Policy reports. The money would go to a UN agency, which provides food, medicine, and tents for the 1.17 million who’ve been forced to flee their homes in the region.

Refugees who fled fighting in Pakistan's troubled Swat Valley wait to get bread in a camp in Peshawar today.
Refugees who fled fighting in Pakistan's troubled Swat Valley wait to get bread in a camp in Peshawar today.   (AP Photo)
Then-presidential hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton holds a cellular phone during a rally in Albany, NY, May 14, 2007.
Then-presidential hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton holds a cellular phone during a rally in Albany, NY, May 14, 2007.   (AP Photo)
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-NY, reads her Blackberry as she talks with wounded Marine Lance Corp. Matt Bradford, Nov. 11, 2008.
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-NY, reads her Blackberry as she talks with wounded Marine Lance Corp. Matt Bradford, Nov. 11, 2008.   (AP Photo)
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jeangnome
May 20, 09 1:36 PM CDT
Yep, it goes to some UN agency where some corrupt UN official gets their hands on it. Reply
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Mr.C
May 21, 09 10:17 PM CDT
sometimes the governments of countries get their hands on it - and/ or distribute it to ppl it wasn't intended to go to
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fancygapva
May 20, 09 4:55 PM CDT
Who would you suggest might deliver aid to the refugees in the remote Swat valley? Reply
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benbaum
May 20, 09 5:59 PM CDT
Feck all that. FECK it. Reply
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educatedreader
May 26, 09 1:24 PM CDT
The money will go to the UNHCR. That stands for the United Nations High Commission on Refugees. They are the the agency that is responsible for opening and operating refugee and internally displaced person camps. They provide basic structures and contract out to NGOs to provide services such as sanitation and health care. Reply
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