Doing something for Pakistani flood victims

I get most of my news from the radio, and my radio has been full of stories about how aid for Pakistani flood victims has been slow to arrive, much slower than aid for Haitian earthquake victims or Indian Ocean tsunami victims five years ago even though so many more are affected by this flood.

My radio has not been full of practical lists of ways I can help, in part because the focus of the stories has been on the failure of governments to take brisk action in this crisis (though the stories do note that the US has been doing as good a job as the Pakistani government will permit) and in part because this is too big an emergency for non-governmental organizations to solve on their own. I have not been focused on finding practical ways I can help, because I generally depend on Doctors Without Borders to do emergency inteventions for me and I support them steadily whether there's an emergency right now or not (there's always an emergency; I don't have to look that up).

It's been borne in on me that this emergency is bigger than usual. A lot bigger than usual. Estimates of the number of people affected range from 14 million to 20 million in reports I've heard in recent days. What does "affected" mean in this context? Not "drowned," obviously; that number is in the low thousands, around the number drowned in Katrina, though the number is expected to be higher once communication is finally reestablished with back-country villages. "Displaced," perhaps? The displacement multiplier is a hell of a lot higher than it was for Katrina; recovery will be more expensive and take longer than it has for Katrina, and we're all aware that recovery for New Orleans -- a modern city at the center of well-organized supply systems in the most industrialized country in the world -- isn't complete and isn't likely to be complete for years. It will be harder for rural Pakistan.

So now I'm looking for the most appropriate agency to support to help Pakistani flood victims. If I'm looking, you might be looking, too. I've found lists of agencies in this New York Times article and at the Charity Navigator website. Before I make a donation, I will look at the agency's website, at whatever Guidestar has to say about it, and at articles about it in general.