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The American Muslims for Emergency and Relief, Inc. (AMER) is organized and shall be operated exclusively for charitable and educational purposes. To further its Purpose of existence, the organization will offer direct and indirect services/assistance to needy individuals, families, or communities (both domestically and International) in close coordination with federal, State, or local government; and local faith and community based Organizations utilizing public, private, and individual resources. These services and assistance may include relief and recovery efforts, food distribution, disaster mitigation, housing, volunteer assistance, education and skills training, employment, children and elderly services, prevention and intervention services, and assistance.
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| Flood spares Pakistan city as waters recede |
 A torrent of water threatening to deluge a major town in flood-hit Pakistan has begun to recede, officials said, as emergency workers plugged a breach in defences against the swollen Indus River.
Pakistani troops and workers have been on a "war footing" over the weekend, battling to save the southern city of Thatta after most of the 300,000-strong population fled the advancing barrage.
"The breach near Thatta has been half-plugged and fortunately the flood has also changed its course and is moving away from the city and populated areas," senior city official Hadi Bakhsh Kalhoro said.
"The water is flowing into the sea and its level is receding, and many people are returning to their homes."
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Amerelief on August 30 2010 08:00:00 ·
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| Pakistan floods 'heart-wrenching' - UN chief |
 UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon: “So many people, in so many places, in so much need”
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has described as “heart-wrenching” the destruction he witnessed on a visit to flood-devastated Pakistan.
Mr Ban said the scale of the disaster was greater than anything he had seen before.
He again urged the world to speed up aid to the country, saying shelter and medicine were desperately needed.
The Pakistani government says up to 20 million people have now been affected by the monsoon floods.
At least 1,500 are known to have lost their lives.
Health experts are warning that the threat of epidemics in flood-hit areas is growing.
Deep concern
"This has been a heart-wrenching day for me and for my delegation," Mr Ban said at a press conference, stood alongside President Asif Ali Zardari.
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Amerelief on August 16 2010 09:12:49
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| Soaring food prices hit Pakistan |
 Food prices have skyrocketed in Pakistan at the start of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, after vast stretches of crops were destroyed by flooding.
The rising prices threaten to amplify misery in a country where many residents were already mired in poverty before some of the country's worst flooding in 80 years struck.
The prices of basic items such as tomatoes, onions, potatoes and squash have in some cases quadrupled in recent days, putting them out of reach for many Pakistanis.
At least 1.4 million acres of crops were destroyed in Punjab, the breadbasket of Pakistan, according to the United Nations.
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Amerelief on August 11 2010 09:16:41
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| Pakistan floods trigger mass exodus |
 Thousands of people in Pakistan's Punjab province are fleeing their homes as the worst floods in the country's history threaten more areas in the south.
Floodwaters have submerged numerous villages and begun to pour into major urban centres like the city of Kot Addu in Punjab.
UN and Pakistani officials say 3.2 million people are affected by the floods along the Indus River, and that at least 1,500 people have died in the past week.
"We have been able to see a mass exodus of people in south Punjab and the water is still rising", Al Jazeera’s Kamal Hyder said on Wednesday.
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Amerelief on August 04 2010 09:36:04
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| Pakistan flood misery mounts |
 The worst floods in memory in Pakistan have affected more than three million people so far and the death toll has climbed to over 1,500, the UN Children's Fund (Unicef) has said.
Amid forecasts of more heavy monsoon rains, authorities on Tuesday said they expected the death toll to rise further.
The Swat valley, which has yet to recover from a major Pakistani army offensive against Taliban fighters just over a year ago, is one of the areas worst affected by the floods.
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Amerelief on August 03 2010 09:26:18
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| Earthquake Rocks Southeastern Iran |
 A relatively strong earthquake rocked southeastern Iran, Saturday, a day after a 5.7 magnitude quake shook a northeastern province, injuring at least 170 people.
Iranian state media say Saturday's quake had a 5.7 magnitude. The U.S. Geological Survey says it had a magnitude of 5.3.
The quake jolted the Negar region of Kerman province around mid-morning, local time. There have been no reports of damage or injuries.
The U.S. Geological Survey says Friday's quake was centered near the northeastern city of Torbat-e-Heydariyeh.
Iran is located on major seismic fault lines.
The worst recent quake in Iran occurred in 2003, killing about 30,000 people and destroying much of the ancient southern city of Bam.
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Amerelief on July 31 2010 12:03:08
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| Floods trap thousands in Pakistan |
 Eight hundred people are now known to have been killed in the worst floods in Pakistan's history as rescue workers attempted to reach thousands of people stranded by torrential monsoon rains.
More than a million people had been affected by the floods on Saturday. Bloated rivers have washed away villages and triggered devastating landslides throughout the northwest of the country.
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Amerelief on July 31 2010 10:06:04
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| Ships ready to leave BP leaky well as storm brews |
BY HARRY WEBER AND COLLEEN LONG
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITERS
ON THE GULF OF MEXICO -- Crew members aboard dozens of ships in the Gulf of Mexico prepared Thursday to evacuate as a tropical rainstorm brewing in the Caribbean brought the deep-sea effort to plug BP's ruptured oil well to a near standstill.
Though the rough weather was hundreds of miles from the spill site and wouldn't enter the Gulf for at least a few more days, officials ordered technicians trying to plug BP's well to stand down because they needed several days to clear the area. Anxiety built among the 75-member crew aboard the cutter Decisive, the Coast Guard's primary search and rescue vessel that would be the last of about 65 ships to leave in the event of an evacuation.
Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/07/22/1741808/ships-ready-to-leave-bp-leaky.html#ixzz0uQ5x7vPQ
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Amerelief on July 22 2010 09:05:42
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| IMF cancels Haiti's $268m debt |
 The International Monetary Fund has cancelled Haiti's $268m debt and approved a new loan worth $60m to boost international reserves in the earthquake-devastated nation. The IMF said in a statement on Wednesday that both steps will help Haiti's reconstruction efforts following the devastating January 12 quake, which destroyed the capital Port-au-Prince and left 1.5 million people homeless. |
Amerelief on July 22 2010 09:00:48
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| In Haiti's tent cities, a return to normalcy is unimaginable |
 BY FRED GRIMM fgrimm@MiamiHerald.comPORT-AU-PRINCE -- The concept of temporary, amid Haiti's teeming refugee camps, has morphed into a dismal variation of forever.
A deluge of earthquake victims, shocked and terrified, spilled out of the city's ruins after the disaster and found refuge in parks, school yards, soccer pitches, garden patches, almost any private or public space they could find in their tumbled down city.
Their flimsy tents, fabricated from bed sheets, tattered plastic, sticks and strings, reinforced the assumption that these impromptu settlements, 1,300 of them, would surely vanish before the summer rains could wash them away.
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Amerelief on July 13 2010 08:30:13
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| BP makes fresh move to cap oil well |
 Al Jazeera and agencies
Oil spewing from a leaking well into the Gulf of Mexico could be contained as early as Monday if BP's latest attempt to bring the disaster under control is sucessful, the oil giant has said.
Under the plan, a new cap would be placed over the leaking well, capturing the oil before it escapes into the sea and preventing the massive slick caused by the leak from getting worse.
BP has come under pressure from the Obama administration to install the new cap, which could capture up to 80,000 barrels of oil a day, versus the 25,000 barrels a day currently being collected.
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Amerelief on July 10 2010 07:59:25
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