Amir Khan to visit earthquake survivor camp
British boxer Amir Khan will try to play his part in supporting this week the millions of survivors of last year’s devastating earthquake that struck several parts of Pakistan when he visits a camp of displaced people on the Pakistani side of Kashmir.
The 2004 Olympic silver medallist will visit residents of a camp near the city of Muzaffarabad on 6th April, the same place he visited on an earlier trip last December.
“These people have lived through a massive earthquake and survived a winter of snow and rain camped in tents next to the Himalayas, said the Bolton-based boxer on Sunday. “We all need to work together to give them as much support, care and time as they need to rebuild their homes and their lives.”
Amir visits the devastated area at a crucial time almost six months after last year’s disaster. The Pakistani authorities have drafted a raft of plans for reconstruction and are strongly encouraging thousands of displaced survivors to return their places of origin.
“We have to make sure that if another major earthquake strikes, people are better prepared, says Amir. That means building better and stronger homes and communities than they had before.
At the age of 17, Amir became the youngest boxer since Floyd Patterson in 1952 to win an Olympic medal and Britain’s youngest Olympian boxer since 1976 when he took the silver prize at Athens in 2004.
Since that success, he has won the first six bouts of his professional career, with five of those being knockouts.
Source: The News
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April 15th, 2006 at 7:20 pm
Hi
All what he says is wright.
Since i was six i have been to Pakistan three times.
When i went at the age of six it was on the festival of Eid i was the only sister and no brothers.
But know i have a five year old sister.
And another brother or sister on the way.
And i’m shore Amir knows how it fells to be the eldest.
In his case the older brother.
But it has been that i was going every 2 years.
And now that i am in my teen years.
And exams stress.
I know how it must feel for them but they don’t have any education.
So they are looking after they sisters and brothers and their parents.
But we are having the luxury of help and our education layed in front of us.
Even though i was born in the UK so i am a British Asian
and i have all the luxury that i need i feel guilty.
And now the earthquake has happend even though i am not going there i am going to pray for them in Saudi Arabia.
And then in the month of Ramadhan i will go to Saudi Arabi again. And pray harder for them.
I’m not that religious but i think the normall luxurys of life that others can’t have.The most we can do is pray for them.
It was only last year that i went everything was normall there, but when we came back a few weeks later we saw the trajedy, that had happend in PAKISTAN.And all the terrorism acts that have gone on.
We phoned our relatives to see they were fine. But we live 1 hour out of Islamabad. They were not hert but they felt the force of it.
And we had gone to celerbrait the engajment of our uncle.
And we were lucky we had left early.
So good on Amir he went to see for himself.