Hidaya Exceeds Target
of $1.5M for Quake Relief Fund
Santa Clara, CA: Hidaya
Foundation (www.hidaya.org), a Santa Clara based 501 (c) (3)
organization, has raised over $ two million in relief for
victims of the earthquake that struck northern areas of Pakistan
in early October, 2005. Having crossed its previous target
of $1.5 million, Hidaya Foundation has raised its goal to
$3 million for providing immediate and on-going earthquake
relief efforts.
International agencies have estimated that more than 87,000
people have died and that nearly one million people have suffered
extreme economic disaster as a result of the earthquake. Hidaya
Foundation has taken a leadership role in coordinating relief
efforts through several significant initiatives:
Hidaya Foundation has collected over $1.4 million in cash
and over $600,000 of in-kind donations, consisting of approximately
352 tons of supplies, including tents, blankets, winter clothing,
sleeping bags, crutches, wheel chairs and medicine.
Hidaya Foundation has already utilized and distributed nearly
$1.75 million (including 8% expected overhead for 2005) of
the $2 million collected to date in purchasing and delivering
supplies as well as food and water to affected villages.
Hidaya Foundation has shipped over twenty containers (40ft
each) of in-kind donations to Pakistan for disbursement in
the affected areas. Fifteen containers were shipped from Hidaya
Foundation’s Headquarters in Santa Clara, California;
one was shipped from the Islamic Society of North America
(ISNA) Headquarters in Plainfield, Indiana; two were shipped
from Irving, Texas; and two more from Tustin, California.
Meanwhile, the Pakistan-based sister organization, Hidaya
Trust, continues to provide on-the-ground coordination and
distribution of relief supplies to 28 villages in the districts
of Bagh, Muzaffarabad, Rawlakot, Abbotabad, Balakot and Mansehra.
Hidaya Foundation continues to work closely with college student
volunteers in Pakistan from the Gulam Ishaq Khan Institute.
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