Pakistan Earthquake 2005

Covering the earthquake, the damage and the relief work in Pakistan.

Archive for February, 2006

Wakefield South Asia Earthquake Appeal

Wakefield Council is asking the community to help identify a specific area in Pakistan to benefit from the district’s fundraising efforts.

Council Leader Cllr Peter Box wants to focus on a Pakistan community to contribute to its reconstruction. There is also a possibility of developing long-term twinning links.

After the October 2005 earthquake, Wakefield Council donated £10,000 through the British Red Cross towards the relief effort.

Over the last few weeks the Council has worked closely with the South Asian community to coordinate local support.

Clothes, tents and blankets have been donated at nine Wakefield Collection Centres and four deliveries have been sent to Kashmir.

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Clear Path International Holds Pakistan Earthquake Relief Drive

The Rotary Club of Bainbridge Island and Clear Path International, an island-based humanitarian nonprofit, are seeking winter relief goods for Pakistan.

The two organizations are asking Kitsap County residents to donate their used but useable blankets, sleeping bags, tents, tarps, ground sheets, linens, medium- to heavy-weight clothes, coats, hats, scarves, gloves, shoes, boots, generic school supplies (pens, pencils, notebooks, etc.), hand tools, wool, fabric and sewing materials.

Donors can drop off all washed and functional items in the north parking lot at Sakai Intermediate School, 9394 Sportsman Club Rd. on Bainbridge Island, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 25 and Sunday, Feb. 26. No junk, please.

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Understanding Pakistan Earthquake Damage

Kathryn Cramer reports about two photos that captures the devastation caused by the October 8th earthquake in Pakistan.

Photos taken by Jishnu Das.

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Rochester supplies heading to Pakistan

The donation drive R.I.T. started for Pakistan earthquake victims has raked in 5,000 pounds of supplies.

R.I.T. staff and students along with the J.C.C., Climbers for Christ, several local churches and the Muslim Student Association all helped collect winter gear like tents, tarps, sleeping bags and blankets. It is all to help shelter victims still homeless after the earthquake struck Pakistan last October.

The campaign was part of an online donation drive called quakehelp.net. On Monday, they packed up the gear to be air-lifted to Pakistan, India and Kashmir.

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NGOs Joint Action Committee-Pakistan: Earthquake Relief Effort

The Joint Action Committee (JAC) of NGOs in Pakistan, a network of 85 major NGOs in the country, has mounted a combined relief effort for the affectees of earthquake. To provide food, shelter, medicine clothing and other essential items to millions of injured and homeless people, JAC urgently needs essential items to be transported to the remote regions, including Muzaffarabad, Kohala, Bagh, Rawlakot in AJK; and in Abottabad, Mansehra, Balakot, Battal, Garhi-Habibullah, Battagram and other areas in the Hazara region.

Click here to visit their web site.

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FEmale Human Rights Organization (FEHRO)

FEHRO is a registered non governmental and non partisan initiative. Founded in 1998 by a group of women volunteers keeping in view the cultural reasons men involvement in Governance and management was made mandatory from the outset. FEHRO is truly a women organization run by a women and geared towards women cause with a missionary spirit. FEHRO works revolves around empowerment of women by creating an enabling environment through capacity building, awreness on human rights, advocacy and provision of basic services. FEHRO has two pronged strategy i.e. working at the causes level to address human rights protection of women through Advocacy, lobbying that is done with Govt., media, NGOs/CBOs, political, religious groups and community. At services level FEHRO focusses service delivery interventions e.g. Vocational Training, ,literacy, Micro-Credit, linkages and other needbased interventions. . FEHRO does not see women in islolation but as a part of family, existing social values lies at the core of FEHRO strategic framework because FEHRO is part of this soceity and believes that sustainable development is about changing attitude towards women by staying within the existing value system. Particiaption of stakeholders during the development process is mandatory for all interventions.FEHRO concerted efforts has brought women to the limelight of development initiatives in Swat

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Lack of fresh funding will scale down quake flights: UN

The United Nations will be forced to drastically scale down life-saving aid flights in earthquake-hit Pakistan if it does not get fresh donations within a month, a top official said.

Survivors may not be able to rebuild their lives and would be vulnerable to any new tremors if helicopters ferrying vital food and shelter are reduced, UN World Food Programme (WFP) regional director Amir Abdulla said, speaking to journalists.

“If you don’t help people recover they might not be able to eke out an existence, and if you get another shock many, many more people will die.”

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Unknown donor gives $200,000 for quake relief

An anonymous donor has sent a cheque for $200,000 for earthquake relief to the Eqbal Ahmad Foundation, according to Dr Pervez Hoodbhoy.

In a report dated January 29, Dr Hoodbhoy told supporters of the Eqbal Ahmad Foundation in the US and elsewhere that so far the two foundations established in the Pakistani intellectual’s memory had received $425,000, which, he added, “was far beyond anything we had expected”.

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