# Text donations service launched for China and Burma

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2008/05/26/text-donations-service-launched-burma/
- Published: 2008-05-26T08:46:15+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Dublin-based mobile marketing company Púca has launched a new text-based service
to help the disaster relief efforts under way in China’s Sichuan province and in
Myanmar (Burma). The text fundraising initiative, which is called TXT-AID, will 
run for two weeks. It is being supported by Ireland’s four mobile network operators:
Vodafone, O2, Meteor and 3. Mobile users can make an instant donation by sending
the keyword AID to the SMS short code 57500. The proceeds will be distributed in
full amongst four aid organisations – Irish Red Cross, Oxfam Ireland, Trócaire and
Concern Worldwide – which are providing help to the hundreds of thousands of people
affected by the earthquake in China and the cyclone in Myanmar.

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