November 2005
Sen. Clinton Raises Funds for Pakistan Earthquake
Seven weeks after a devastating earthquake hit South Asia, Senator Hillary Clinton says she is bewildered by the lack of response from people in the West. The senator, attending a fundraiser last night at the Asia Society, said donor fatigue and the absence of any Western tourists in the region has contributed to the problem.
Source: WNYC News
Technorati Tags: Hillary ClintonDesign for a Winterized Home.
These are modular in constructions, made up of blocks of interlocking
modules, as shown in the attached figures. These blocks can be
fabricated by plastic molding machines; each block is a 2×1x0.2 feet
plastic molded container, the air in the container acts as an insulator
making them ideal for constructing winterized home. They snap on next to each other and can be placed in the form of a wall, making them ideal for a quick building project.
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Pakistani Army developed Geographic Information System in quake- hit areas
Pakistan Army Survey Group has developed Geographic Information System (GIS) containing relevant data and information about the magnitude of disaster caused by the earthquake in NWFP and Azad Kashmir. According to an ISPR press release, GIS will help provide required information about the condition of roads, location and height of villages and population when linked with NADRA and satellite images.
Technorati Tags: Pakistan Army, GIS, KashmirAngelina Jolie to adopt a baby in Pakistan?
Angelina Jolie reportedly wants to adopt a child orphaned by the Pakistan earthquake. Friends of the raven-haired star - who is spending Thanksgiving visiting survivors of the tragedy with lover Brad Pitt - claim she’s considering adopting a child there. A source reveals, “She may well consider bringing a child home.”
The pillow-lipped beauty - who has two adopted children, Maddox and Zahara -has made no secret of her desire to have more babies.Last month, the actress hinted she is ready to add another child to her family. She told America’s People magazine at a benefit for the Worldwide Orphans Foundation, “It’s a very special thing. There’s something about making a choice, waking up and traveling somewhere and finding your family.”
Technorati Tags: Angelina Jolie, Brad PittBritish contribution for earthquake relief
Overview
An earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter Scale (and at a depth 10 kilometres) hit at 08.50 Pakistan time (03.50 GMT), on 8 October 2005 with the epicentre in Muzaffarabad, 95 km north-northeast of Islamabad; a highly populated region. The earthquake covered an area of approximately 30,000 sq. miles and affected nine districts in Pakistan in total: Abbottabad, Batagram, Mansehra, Shangla, and Kohistan in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) and Muzaffarabad, Neelum, Poonch and Bagh in Pakistan Administered Kashmir. The latest death toll in Pakistan has reached 73,318, with 69,392 injured. One British citizen was killed. Around 3.5 million people have been affected (500,000 families) and nearly 2.5 million people have lost their homes. In India official reports indicate that there were 1,307 deaths and 4,500 people injured. Estimates are that up to one million people have been affected across four districts. The Indian government has not called for international assistance.
Time runs out for animal survivors of Pakistan quake
With their homes and barns in ruins and winter fast approaching, many fear they won’t be able to keep alive the animals that survived the October 8 quake after the snow comes, so they’re slaughtering and selling them.
But agriculture and health officials say farm animals are vital for the mountain people of northern Pakistan — for both their health and economic well being — and the animal survivors of the quake must be kept alive.
“We’re very frightened when farmers begin selling their assets. What happens next year?” said Keith Ursel of the U.N. World Food Program, which is helping to feed about 1 million human survivors of the quake.
Shelter work slowing down?
The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) coordinator Jean-Philipe Bourgeois said many villagers had not started preparing a shelter from the ruins of their destroyed homes because they thought if they rebuilt they would not get compensation the government is promising victims.
“They had heard that for every destroyed house they would get 25,000 rupees ($420),” Bourgeois said on Tuesday in the hard-hit Neelum Valley, northeast of Muzaffarabad, the ruined capital of Pakistani Kashmir. “So they thought if they started to rebuild they were not going to get the money,” he said.
15 % Damage to Pakistani Nuclear Facilities in Quake
After the earthquake, people inside and out of Pakistan have raised their concern about the safety of nuclear assets of Pakistan, especially Kahuta Nuclear Facility which was just 100km away from the quake’s epicentre.
A report has been published recently in NewsInsight that states that around 15% of Pakistan’s nuclear facilities have been damaged by the earthquake:
Pakistan Earthquake “Mueenuddin Fund”
Dr. Tamur Mueenuddin, chief health officer for UNICEF in Islamabad and head of UNICEF earthquake relief efforts in the Kaghan Valley, with his wife Laureen launched a fund for the relief and rehabilitation of earthquake victims. The ‘Mueenuddin fund’ has recieved generous contributions from their family and friends.
For details on relief and rehabiliation activities by Muneenddin family, please check this blog.
Technorati Tags: UNICEF, Kaghan