# Kosovo Appeal most successful yet

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/1999/04/08/kosovo-appeal-most-successful-yet/
- Published: 1999-04-08T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

The Disasters Emergency Committee’s Kosovo Crisis Appeal is the most successful 
so far with an estimated £7 million raised in two days. 243,560 calls have been 
made to the freephone credit card donation telephone line (0870 60 60 900), with
an average donation of £34. The appeal is boosted by Millennium Gift Aid, the government’s
tax concession scheme for donations of over £100.
The Disasters Emergency Committee’s
Kosovo Crisis Appeal is the most successful so far with an estimated £7 million 
raised in two days. 243,560 calls have been made to the freephone credit card donation
telephone line (0870 60 60 900), with an average donation of £34. The appeal is 
boosted by Millennium Gift Aid, the government’s tax concession scheme for donations
of over £100.

The appeal is made on behalf of a twelve British aid agencies working in the Balkans
region, where hundreds of thousands of refugees are currently displaced by the political
crisis.

A spokesman for the appeal said: “We are grateful to the British public for their
overwhelming generosity. The agencies have specialist teams on the ground and are
meeting immediate needs. The most effective and efficient way of helping the refugees
is with cash donations so that the agencies can carry on with their life-saving 
work.”

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