Archive for November, 2005
Services of Orthotist and Prosthetist available
There are numerous amputees in Azad Kashmir and NWFP, waiting for artificial limbs. Although some organizations are working on this, there is still an acute shortage of technical expertise.
An Orhotist and Prosthetist in Quetts is offering his services for setting up setting up artificial lims processing and deployment units in the affected areas.
For details, please contact:
Asif Ali Orthotist / Prosthetist P.O.Box 625 Quetta G.P.O. Quetat 87300, Pakistan asifop@yahoo.com
Update: Orthotist/Prosthetist in Lahore
Irtaza Kazmi Orthotist/prosthetist BPOS(Ortho) MNAPO(Pak) LIMBS Orthotics and Prosthetics Rehabilitation CLinic Lahore Cell: +92-300-9438215
Relief Shelter Drive
Relief Shelter Drive started as Relief Tent Drive but after considering the fact that alternatives to tents are required to protect from the coming snow and winter, they have adapted to new strategy and name.
Quake funds concert in Malaysia
Akademi Fantasia winner Mawi will hold a special joint concert with several artistes to raise funds for earthquake victims in Pakistan.
The concert would be held next month at a stadium here, he said after handing over 100,000 packets of Mamee noodles worth RM60,000 to Pakistan High Commissioner Gen (Rtd) Talat Munir for the earthquake victims yesterday. Mawi said he was touched by the victims’ plight and would try his best to help them. He called on Malaysians to donate to the victims, adding that the earthquake was a reminder that life was impermanent.
Operation Heartbeat: Surgeons & Volunteers Needed for Field Hospitals
There is a field hospital up and running in
If you are able to assist by volunteering or with financial donations.
Neelam Valley quake relief effort
Aamer Ahmed Khan of
These villages are:
Chaliana, Riyali, Jagirpatti, Pahelian, Kath Chungi, Kath Ban, Jargi, Chilai, Barian, Saidpur, Bharoha, Mirpura, Flakan Tarban, Ashkot, Guhl, Yaswa, Bandi, Jora, Manduk, Islampura, Parnai, & Seemari.
Forgetting About Pakistan
Independent analysts and citizen journalists are taking note of slower pace of relief and rehabilitation efforts by the US and UN.
MoJo Blog says:
The United States has pledged some aid already, but it’s hard to think they couldn’t be doing more—and be doing it more visibly. Assistant Secretary of State Anthony Wayne recently noted that the country would need about $5 billion in “near-term” relief, but would not say how much the United States would contribute. With Congress already set to pass $70 billion in new tax cuts, spend for Katrina reconstruction, and possibly grant the Bush administration $7.1 billion to fight avian flu, it’s easy to imagine that the U.S. will be relatively stingy when it comes to Pakistan aid.
Earthquake highlights ecological assault on the Himalayas
The earthquake didn’t destroy Mohammad Shafi Mir’s house and bury his mother, but what followed seconds later did: a torrent of bounding boulders that thundered down the mountainside at killing speed.
As he watched in shock from a nearby field, the quake-triggered landslide - echoing like ‘tank fire on a battlefield’ - mowed down trees 1.5 metres thick, bombarded houses and enveloped the village in dust that turned day into dusk.
By the time the slide’s deadly run ended in the
Rehabilitation support required in Chikar, Muzaffarabad
(From a reader’s comments)
I am Zafeer Hussain Kiani from Makkah Mukarramah.
Basically I belong to Chikar, (a town of district Muzaffarabad). My village Kasir Kot is 48 kilometer far from Muzafffarabad situated at Bagh-Muzaffarabad road via Chikar. My family is still in the village because they do not want to left their village.
But in this weather it is very difficult to live there as we have lost our houses and my family members are laying in the out fields. We had gotten tent from the relief mission but it is unable to save the persons from bitter cold. We just need a kind relief to build our house to save ourselves from the heavy snowfall which is near to fall down.