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Text a pledge using your cell phone on Sunday 14th March and be in to win an iPod Touch!

Join our Hope For Haiti benefit concert "Text-a-Thon" from wherever you are in USA and help us raise money for our vital work in Haiti.

All the details at: http://www.coaid.org/haiti/hope/pledge

CoAid wishes to express our sincere condolences for the loss of life suffered by World Vision in Pakistan.

Our prayers are with the families of the victims. 6 staff were killed and 8 injured in an unprovoked attack on the World Vision offices in Mansehra on 10th March.

Read the full account at: http://www.worldvision.org/#/home/world-vision-news/world-vision-staff-a...

Install the uGive application on your iPhone or iPod Touch and discover new ways to support your favorite charity!

I just came across a recent article by NY Times columnist, Nicholas Kristof. It's worth a read.

Here's an extract...

"Some Americans assume that religious groups offer aid to entice converts. That’s incorrect. Today, groups like World Vision ban the use of aid to lure anyone into a religious conversation.

When Haiti was devastated by the earthquake of January 2010 the healthcare community responded in mass, with orthopedic surgeons leading ghe charge in many respects. However, one of the limiting factors in an effective emergency medical response in the underdeveloped countries is that of sterilization capability. This restraining issue was attended to recently when Hope Force International partnered with CoAid to deliver a desperately needed autoclave to Adventist Hospital in Port au Prince, Haiti.

A few days ago I received an email from our India representative, Bhargava Kurapati, on the sad news that a woman named Savitri had passed away after a long fight with cancer. Last year we told you about Savitri. She came from a very poor Hindu family, and through our witness, gave her life to Christ.

Here's what Bhargava told us in his email:

Last week my good friend Dan McCutcheon approached me and said he wanted to arrange a benefit concert for CoAid's work Haiti. I said "go for it!".

Well, Dan's really going to town on this thing -- I'm impressed and encouraged by the level of support and interest as we seek to help the people of Haiti at this incredibly difficult time.