You would think that FEMA, with all its expertise, would be coordinating the relief effort.
But, ultimately, it is the United Nations that must take responsibility to lead and coordinate the relief efforts.
The Oklahoma City Community Foundation, which usually manages money donated for improving the city, quickly took the lead in coordinating the relief efforts.
As chairman of NYC & Company, the city's convention and visitors bureau, Mr. Zagat had been helping coordinate the relief effort of restaurateurs and food suppliers.
About 400,000 people were evacuated in Muzaffargarh and outlying areas, said Suhail Tipu, a government official coordinating the relief and rescue operation.
"You have to have a deadline for a number of reasons," said Robert J. Hurst, chief executive of the 9/11 United Services Group, which is coordinating the relief efforts among the three big charities, plus about 10 others.
Angeliki Fanaki, who is coordinating the relief programme, said every effort was being made to ensure refugees were received with a level of dignity they may not have experienced so far.
After the show was broadcast in New York, Joseph Mandarino, an adviser to the president of Gift of Limbs to Disabled Children, which helped coordinate the relief trip, said his group was flooded with calls from families offering to adopt the children.
At least 200 people had to be rescued by boat on Sunday and Monday, according to Ian Hugill from Scarborough and Ryedale Mountain Rescue, which was coordinating the relief effort.
With more than 140 groups raising money for victims of the World Trade Center attacks, State Attorney General Eliot L. Spitzer said yesterday that he planned to take the lead in coordinating the relief efforts of private charities.
