International Charity Organizations
American Jewish World Service (AJWS) has mobilised staff and volunteers already in the region to assess the damage and determine how best to respond.
The British Red Cross has sent experts to the region and its Logistics Response Unit is on standby. The organisation has already pledged £250,000 ($130,000) to help with the disaster response, and has launched a public appeal for donations to buy tents, tarpaulins and kitchen sets and to support the Pakistani Red Crescent and Indian Red Cross. Click here to donate to this organisation .
The organisation is also planning to issue a proposal for an ACT appeal to assist 10,000 families with food, emergency relief items and shelter construction materials. Click here to donate to ACT .
German medical agency
The Indian Red Cross is carrying out rescue and relief work in Baramulla and Uri.
International Federation of Red Cross Red Crescent societies (IFRC) has released an initial 200,000 Swiss francs and has its field assessment and coordination teams on alert.
International Medical Corps (IMC) dispatched three teams of medical doctors and nurses to Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province. The teams will provide emergency care through mobile clinics, and assess the immediate, medium- and long-term needs of affected communities. Click here to donate to this organisation .
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is dispatching emergency response teams to the affected areas of Pakistan. Click here to donate to this organisation.
A 14-member team from International Rescue Corps – UK has arrived in Pakistan and is on its way to Kashmir to assist with search and rescue. Click here to donate to this organisation .
MAP International expects to airlift several international disaster modules containing the equivalent of a ton of medical relief supplies, including trauma supplies, analgesics, bandages, and topical ointments. Click here to donate to this organisation .
Medair – Switzerland is sending staff to Pakistan to determine the magnitude of local needs and possibly begin providing emergency supplies and shelter. The organisation has released initial funding from its emergency fund. Click here to donate to this organisation .
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is building response capacity in the region. Its response will focus on shelter, water and surgical supplies. Chlorination kits, 1,000 winterised tents, 20,000 jerry cans, 50,000 blankets, diesel engines and water distribution modules will be sent to the region.
A Mercy Corps team based in Pakistan will distribute emergency supplies such as tents, water and food to earthquake survivors in the areas around the northern towns of Abbotabad and Mansehra. Click here to donate to this organisation.
Oxfam – GB has launched an emergency appeal and says tents, blankets, medical kits, food aid, water and trauma counselling are first priority. The organisation had started assessing local needs in three out of five divisions affected by the earthquake on the Pakistan-administered side of Kashmir. It also planned an assessment mission on the Indian-administered side. Click here to donate to this organisation .
The Pakistani Red Crescent has teams on the ground carrying out relief operations and assessing needs.
Plan has released $200 000 for immediate emergency relief and has begun coordinating relief efforts in Pakistan’s Mansehra district. The organisation says the immediate needs are food, medicine, blankets and tents. Click here to donate to this organisation .
Save the Children’s initial response will focus on meeting the immediate needs of children and their families, including food, water, medicines and temporary shelter. Click here to donate to this organisation
The U.N. Children’s Fund, UNICEF began moving supplies from a Karachi warehouse into the affected region hours after the earthquake. The supplies include blankets, clothing, tents, emergency medical supplies, food for infants, and water purification tablets.
World Vision is sending assessment teams to Mansehra, Kashmir and the Shangla and Kohistan districts in Pakistan. Survivors’ immediate needs include blankets, food, water and medicines. Click here to donate to this organisation.
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October 25th, 2008 at 4:01 am
I think it is very important to be prepared in most of everything that possible happen especially for the emergencies. Wherever we are, there will be always an emergency happen, and we dont know when will it happen. And being prepared and have the things or having emergency kit that we possible need whatever type of emergency will happen, is a clever thing that we do.