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INDIAN OCEAN FLOODS - FUNDRAISING ON STANDBY

The exceptional generosity of MSF's supporters around the world has allowed us temporarily to suspend our appeal for funds.

MSF teams are scaling up our medical assistance to people injured by this disaster and those threatened by infectious diseases. But at the moment these emergency operations in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Thailand, and Burma do have enough money to push ahead and start the work.

So we have suspended our online donation page for the Indian Ocean Floods Disaster Appeal. And we are no longer seeking gifts by post or telephone until we know more clearly what will be the needs beyond this first emergency phase.

At the same time, we would want to encourage you to consider a donation to our medical work in other parts of the world. We depend on public help to allow us to respond quickly in so many places - just as we have in this latest disaster.

If you would like to make a gift to support our work with victims of conflicts, epidemics, and disasters across the world, we would be most grateful. It is the committed support of individuals, including monthly donations by direct debit, that enables us to reach our patients.

Thank you from all of us here at MSF and our medical volunteers around the world.

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PS (from cq) - here's another reason to donate via a responsible & accountable agency:

If you are a UK taxpayer, simply Gift Aid your donations and increase your support of MSF's medical work. For every £10 given, MSF can claim back an extra £2.82. That’s almost 30% on the value of your gifts to MSF.