Clinton Aims to Save Pakistan With Text Donations

By Kevin Spak,  Newser Staff
Posted May 20, 2009 1:16 PM CDT
Clinton Aims to Save Pakistan With Text Donations
Refugees who fled fighting in Pakistan's troubled Swat Valley wait to get bread in a camp in Peshawar today.   (AP Photo)

Hillary Clinton is hoping text messages can save Pakistan’s Swat Valley. The Secretary of State is asking Americans to text “swat” to 20222 to make a $5 donation to help refugees from the fighting there, Foreign Policy reports. The money would go to a UN agency, which provides food, medicine, and tents for the 1.17 million who’ve been forced to flee their homes in the region. (More Hillary Clinton stories.)

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