The death toll following the earthquake in South Asia has reached 25,000 and providing relief efforts for the hundreds of thousand left homeless is incredibly time critical as winter is approaching in the region. It’s perhaps not surprising that people are donating less than they did for the tsunami victims last December given the recent domestic needs, but I get the sense that there has been a lot less press coverage as well. I can live very well without the heart-wrenching accounts of tourists escaping the disaster that we saw last year, but it is possible that exactly those stories managed to bring the suffering closer to home and spurred an outpour of donations and support.
Here a list of agencies accepting donations for Pakistan earthquake relief.