{"id":127700,"date":"2022-08-31T20:38:39","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T20:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/22\/08\/31\/tim-cook-promises-donations-to-flood-relief-efforts-in-pakistan?utm_medium=rss"},"modified":"2022-08-31T20:38:39","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T20:38:39","slug":"tim-cook-promises-donations-to-flood-relief-efforts-in-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/08\/31\/tim-cook-promises-donations-to-flood-relief-efforts-in-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Cook promises donations to flood relief efforts in Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/tim-cook-promises-donations-to-flood-relief-efforts-in-pakistan.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div>\n<p> <em> AppleInsider is supported by its audience and may earn commission as an Amazon Associate and affiliate partner on qualifying purchases. These affiliate partnerships do not influence our editorial content. <\/em> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Apple CEO Tim Cook has confirmed that the company will donate to flood relief and recovery efforts in Pakistan and surrounding areas where glacial melt and increased monsoon activity have caused deadly floods.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"col-sm-12\">\n<p>In a Tweet on Wednesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/inside\/tim-cook\" title=\"Tim Cook\" data-kpt=\"1\">Tim Cook<\/a> offered Apple&#8217;s support for the region.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-sm-12\">\n<div class=\"align-center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The floods in Pakistan and surrounding areas are devastating humanitarian disasters. Our thoughts are with those that have lost loved ones, the many displaced families, and all those affected. Apple will donate to relief and recovery efforts on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tim Cook (@tim_cook) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tim_cook\/status\/1564981623535198208?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 31, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-sm-12\">\n<p>At the height of the flooding, a third of Pakistan \u2014 an area the size of Wyoming \u2014 was underwater, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/world\/pakistan-floods-un-appeal-aid-monsoon-climate-change-rcna45219\">according to<\/a> <em>NBC News.<\/em> The flooding has killed over a thousand people and displaced half a million others.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-sm-12\">\n<p>The damage is estimated to cost $10 billion.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-sm-12\">\n<p>Apple routinely donates money to humanitarian efforts around the globe. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-sm-12\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/22\/03\/05\/apple-starts-taking-donations-for-unicef-ukraine-effort\">In March,<\/a> Apple partnered with UNICEF to help provide relief for families affected by the crisis in Ukraine. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-sm-12\">\n<p>In October 2021, Apple <a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/21\/10\/14\/tim-cook-pledges-donation-to-support-communities-in-china-floods\">donated money<\/a> to help communities recover from the severe flooding in northern China.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AppleInsider is supported by its audience and may earn commission as an Amazon Associate and affiliate partner on qualifying purchases. These affiliate partnerships do not influence our editorial content. Apple CEO Tim Cook has confirmed that the company will donate to flood relief and recovery efforts in Pakistan and surrounding areas where glacial melt and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127701,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apple-insider"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}