The Seattle Times: Nation & World: Latest disaster tests stamina of donors: "Latest disaster tests stamina of donors
By Hal Bernton and Lornet Turnbull
Seattle Times staff reporters
K.M. CHAUDHRY / AP
With outstretched hands, Pakistanis jostle for food distributed by local government workers yesterday in Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistani Kashmir.
After news broke last holiday season of the Asian tsunami, World Vision's Web site was so overwhelmed with donors that it crashed en route to helping raise $350 million worldwide, a record for the agency.
Yesterday, as news accounts detailed the suffering from a new Asian disaster wrought by a powerful earthquake along the Pakistan-India border, World Vision fundraising traffic on the Internet and phones was comparatively light."
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