Relief Work
Humanitarian Information Centre (HIC) for Pakistan
The Humanitarian Information Centre (HIC) for Pakistan is a common service to the humanitarian community managed by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and operates in coordination with a number of partners including the United Nations Joint Logistics Cell (UNJLC), the UK Department for International Development (DFID) and the European Community Humanitarian Office (ECHO).
The HIC provides a range of services and products designed to help organisations to make operational decisions during the emergency period. These include orientation products (including contact lists and meeting schedules), map products (covering issues from administrative boundaries to security concerns) and technical advice to organisations to help them manage data and information more effectively.
Australia Contributes A$20 Million to ADB’s Pakistan Earthquake Fund
The Government of
The PEF was established in November 2005 to pool and promptly deliver emergency grant financing for projects that support immediate reconstruction, urgent rehabilitation, and other associated development activities in earthquake-affected areas in the country. ADB made an initial contribution of US$80 million to the fund.
“We are very grateful for this contribution from the Government of Australia, which will be used for the much needed reconstruction of education and health facilities in Azad Jammu and
Kashmir Education Foundation to setup schools in earthquake hit areas
The
Speaking at a press conference, KEF Chairman Maj Gen (retd) M Rahim Khan said that the foundation in 1996 had established two institutions i.e. Pearl Valley Public School (PVPS) and Institute of Teacher Education (ITE) in
Ben Kingsley at Pakistani event for quake relief
Oscar-winning actor Sir
Kingsley, was accompanied to Pakistan by filmmaker Chip Duncan for the shooting of a short documentary highlighting the work done by Relief International and emphasising the need for an international effort stretched over a much longer period. Kingsley became famous as Mahatma Gandhi in the Richard Attenborough film ‘Gandhi’ released in 1982. It won eight Oscars. The event has been organised by the Organisation of Pakistani Entrepreneurs and Professionals (OPEN), a voluntary, non-profit group “dedicated to the promotion of entrepreneurship and professional excellence”.
NASA Derived Telemedicine Assists Pakistan Survivors
Kathleen Connell reports in her blog about
The NASA Marshall Spaceflight Center RPC conducted a humanitarian medical mission to Pakistan, in order to work with doctors there and introduce telemedicine- a product of
Telemedicine is one of the many ways taxpayer funded NASA technology can be redeployed to assist those in isolated regions.
Photographic catharsis of earthquake affected children
A photography exhibition at the Khaas
Organised by the United Nations Children’s Fund (
Government to launch owner-driven construction in earthquake zone
The government will launch a $2.4 billion assessment and payment programme from April 7 to ensure construction of 600,000 houses in quake zone before next winter, Altaf Saleem, chairman of the Earthquake Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Authority (ERRA), said on Wednesday.
The government has already distributed the first installment of Rs 25,000 among 565,000 earthquake victims to start rebuilding their houses on owner-driven basis and teams has been constituted to assess and present recommendations for the second installment.
Explaining the rationale behind the owner-driven strategy, the chairman said that people have to be given incentives to start building shelter as early as possible. “The government will provide the money and they will provide speed,” he said.
Amir Khan to visit earthquake survivor camp
British boxer
The 2004 Olympic silver medallist will visit residents of a camp near the city of