Sunday, July 30, 2006

UAE telethon

The 10 hour UAE telethon managed to raise 49 million dirhams or nearly $13.5 million for the Lebanese victims of the war in Lebanon. The telethon, which started at 3pm on Friday, was organized by Dubai Media Incorporated, the Sheikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Humanitarian and Charitable Foundation and the UAE Red Crescent Authority.
Considering that the population of UAE is about 4 million, this works out to over $3.3 per person. If we are able to raise around the same amount per person from India, that would work out to a whopping $3.67 billion (population 1,112,225,812).

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