The NU Stands with Pakistan campaign raised $17,072 in a three-week fundraising blitz, organizers announced on their website Tuesday afternoon.
“We are both humbled and amazed by the generosity of the Northwestern community,” the announcement read. “People of every background came together to make this happen.”
The group had hoped to raise $8,536 – $1 for every Northwestern undergraduate student – and said that total would feed 34,144 Pakistanis displaced by the summer’s massive flooding.
The total raised was almost twice that much. Much of that was due to a large gift from A&O Productions, which donated $1 of every ticket sold to its Fall Blowout Show. That netted $5,327.
Flooding triggered by annual monsoon rains has destroyed crops and homes across Pakistan, killing about 2,000 and displacing millions in the past two months. It is the worst natural disaster in recent history, affecting more people than the 2004 tsunami in southeast Asia and the earthquakes in Haiti combined, according to the United Nations.
The group organizers could not immediately be reached for comment.
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