{"id":9903,"date":"2010-10-13T14:24:28","date_gmt":"2010-10-13T14:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2010\/10\/13\/fa-back-flood-appeal\/"},"modified":"2010-10-13T14:24:28","modified_gmt":"2010-10-13T14:24:28","slug":"fa-back-flood-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2010\/10\/13\/fa-back-flood-appeal\/","title":{"rendered":"FA back flood appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>The FA support The DEC&#8217;s Pakistan Flood Appeal<\/h3>\n<div><strong>THE Football Association is lending its support to the Disaster Emergency Committee\u2019s (DEC) Pakistan Flood Appeal.<\/strong> <br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nLarge parts of the country were devastated by the monsoon rains in July and August, with over 20 million people affected by the resulting floods. <br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nAs floodwaters begin to subside, the trail of destruction left behind is now becoming apparent, with countless people left dead, injured, sick and displaced. <br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nThe DEC has appealed for donations to assist those in need and one person who is championing the cause is English-born defender Zesh Rehman. <br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nThe Bradford City defender is known for his charity work in England and now the former Greenshirts international is looking to make an impact further afield.\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u201cEntire communities have been uprooted from their submerged towns and villages,\u201d he says. \u201cSome have sought shelter with relatives, but most have nowhere to go.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u201cThere are fears that flood survivors with little food or clean water are falling prey to water-borne diseases from contaminated floodwaters,\u201d he continues.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u201cChildren, expectant mothers and the elderly are especially at risk. <br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u201cHumanitarian aid is urgently needed to help prevent more deaths from these catastrophic floods.\u201d <br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nThe money raised will help fund the life saving work in Pakistan of the DEC\u2019s Members, which are the lead UK aid agencies, and their partners.<\/p>\n<p><strong>To donate to the Appeal, visit the official website of the Disaster Emergency Committee <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dec.org.uk\/item\/200\"><strong>http:\/\/www.dec.org.uk\/item\/200<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Zesh Rehman has recently set up his own charity foundation. For further information, visit <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zeshrehmanfoundation.org\/\"><strong>http:\/\/www.zeshrehmanfoundation.org\/<\/strong><\/a> <\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FA support The DEC&#8217;s Pakistan Flood Appeal THE Football Association is lending its support to the Disaster Emergency Committee\u2019s (DEC) Pakistan Flood Appeal. &#13; Large parts of the country were devastated by the monsoon rains in July and August, with over 20 million people affected by the resulting floods. &#13; As floodwaters begin to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}