1.   Our switchboard was flooded with calls and thousands bombarded our appeal hotline to pledge donations.

2.   Alomar subsequently pledged the donation.

3.   A Methodist church in town offered its buses for tours of Selma and pledged a donation toward the upkeep of the synagogue.

4.   Hundreds of people pledged donations and several individuals, mortuaries and community groups offered to pay for funeral expenses.

5.   Nor are there callers ringing up to pledge donations.

6.   Aid agencies say they have been inundated with offers of help, while call centers are swamped by Cape Town residents pledging donations.

7.   At least one million Angolans face hunger and malnutrition in the coming months unless food donations are pledged soon, the UN World Food Program said Friday.

8.   Each participant pledged donations and a fund-raiser was held at the Waldorf-Astoria on Friday night.

9.   Several other countries have expressed interest in contributing and the World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank have also pledged donations.

10.   The German envoy said Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder had pledged the donation last October after visiting ground zero.