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Nepal earthquake: Facebook raises $10 million in relief funds

Facebook will be donating an additional $2 million.

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Half a million people have helped raise more that $10 million to support the International Medical Corps relief effort in Nepal, just two days after Facebook introduced their Donate button.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg made the announcement on his official Facebook page. In the same post he added, Facebook will be donating an additional $2 million to "local recovery efforts to help those in affected areas".

In 2014, Facebook launched a ' Safety Check' button, enabling users to inform loved ones and friends of their safety status and location during disasters. The button was brought back on the social media platform after a devastating earthquake hit Nepal. Since then, seven million people have marked themselves safe in the area.

WhatsApp and Messenger are also being used across Nepal. "Aid workers are using Groups to coordinate and figure out how to get to affected areas," Zuckerberg stated in his post.

The earthquake has killed more than 6, 000 people and left 70, 000 homeless.

Zuckerberg's original post on Facebook:

We’ve seen our community come together in some amazing ways since the earthquake in Nepal. We activated Safety Check...

Posted by Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday, April 30, 2015

 

 Also Read: Nepal earthquake: Death toll reaches 6250; 2,50,000 buildings damaged

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