February 2006
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.
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.
Technorati Tags: Pakistan, earthquakeNGOs 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.
Technorati Tags: NGO, Pakistan, Muzaffarabad, Bagh, Abottabad, Mansehra, Balakot, HazaraFEmale 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
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.”
Technorati Tags: United Nations, Pakistan, WFPUnknown 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”.
Technorati Tags: earthquake, Eqbal Ahmad Foundation, Pervez HoodbhoyComputer Associates announces donations for quake victims
Computer Associates (CA), one of the world’s largest management software companies, Tuesday announced a donation of $37,900 to the Edhi Foundation in response to the requests for aid to the victims of the earthquake.
Edhi Foundation is one of the most respected organisations when it comes to relief work in distressed areas in Pakistan and other parts of the world.
The donation was raised by CA employees based in Pakistan and the Arab countries through CA’s Matching Charitable Gifts Program, a worldwide program, which encourages CA employees to contribute to the charities and communities of their choice by matching cash donations to qualified organisations by 200 percent.
Technorati Tags: Computer Associates, EdhiNATO concludes operations in quake areas
The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) force has announced the conclusion of its 90-day operations in the earthquake-affected areas of Pakistan.
Speaking at a joint news conference in Islamabad on Tuesday, NATO Ambassador Maurits Jochems and Relief Team Commander Air Commodore Andy Walton said that the NATO forces had successfully completed their mission. They said that the NATO forces were leaving Pakistan with fond memories, and expressed gratitude to the Pakistani government and armed forces for their support in carrying out relief operations. They appreciated the “effective” Pakistani leadership for tackling the disaster with “patience and great courage”, and extending all possible support to relief teams from the world over. They said that it was a matter of satisfaction for NATO that local people encouraged them, recognised their services and extended remarkable hospitality.
Technorati Tags: NATO, earthquake, Pakistan