Germany Sends Aid to Pakistan

Germany has donated more than five million euros ($6 million) in aid to the victims of the devastating earthquakes in Pakistan, the foreign ministry said on Friday. Around 3.25 million euros have been paid to United Nations organizations such as the UN children's fund UNICEF, while the rest is supporting the work of German humanitarian organizations. The German Red Cross, the civil security force THW as well as German troops temporarily transferred from Afghanistan have been working on the quake relief effort. In one example, typical of how the German aid was spent, 300,000 euros went to equip a Red Cross field hospital in Kashmir, one of the regions worst hit by the earthquakes. Germany is also to make long-term grants of 10.6 million euros to Pakistan to fund reconstruction, Economic Cooperation and Development Minister Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul said. At least 25,000 people are feared dead and 63,000 are injured in Pakistan alone as a result of the country's worst natural disaster.