Chinese youths group raises RMB 2 million for flood-hit people in Pakistan.

BEIJING -- A civil group named China-Pakistan Youth Exchange Community started fund-raising online since August and so far they have raised around RMB 2 million to buy tents, food, daily necessities and other supplies for flood-stricken people in different districts of Pakistan.

The group has provided 600 tents to flood victims in Multan which are urgently needed and mostly used by people displaced by floods. In the future, they will provide another 500 tents for those flood-affected residents in Multan, according to Ma Bin, leader of the community.

Ma said that its Multan team had provided a complete set of rescue plan for 100 particularly poor families in flood-stricken areas. Each of the rescue packages contains a tent, two blankets, drinking water, food and daily necessities.

Notably, they also bought PVC sheets used in the construction of animal shelters, forage and feed for animals. Ma told China Economic Net (CEN) that his volunteer witnessed a father who wanted to rescue both his son and a cattle from the water, but had to watch his cattle washed away.

"Apart from houses and valuables, flash floods washed away local people's poultry and livestock, and completely damaged standing crops. All these were their source of earnings, now people do not know how they would survive. It's heartrending. We hope to do our best to help iron brothers in distress, said Ma.

"Now we have seven groups of volunteers collecting and distributing required items to families in desperate need. On September 3, our fourth team distributed a total of 300 parcels including flour, cooking oil, rice and sugar in Nowshera, Khyber PakhtunKhwa province," Ma told CEN.

"We also established cooperation mechanism with China Rural Development Foundation, Beijing Tongxinyuan Charity Foundation and other foundations who are raising funds in China and...