Swat Crisis: Support the Internally Displaced Persons [IDP's] in Pakistan
Credit – Chowrangi
There is a very serious military offensive in the northern areas of Pakistan [Swat, Dir, Buner and adjacent locations] the offensive is to uproot the terrorists from the region but innocent Pakistani are suffering and are actually being displaced out fo that region migrating to safer regions like Mardan, Charsadda and Peshawar. They are fellow Pakistanis and they need our help
With an expected 500,000 people to be displaced from their residence, Swat Crisis is being termed as largest humanitarian and displacement crisis in recent times. Whether we support the military operation or not, these Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) need our help.
There could be other ways how we all can help make thier suffering a little less – share you ideas but at the same time this is an appeal to all individuals, organizations, charities and NGOs in general and nationals of Pakistan in particular, whether resident or expat, to come forward and help by extending financial, technical and moral support to hundreds of thousands, feared to be displaced in Swat Crisis. If nothing else, please spread the word.
How you can help:
Besides sending cash through below mentioned charity organizations, you can support by providing following commodities. Please do not donate old/expired stuff. Make sure edible items are hygienic and properly packed.
- Clothing: Clothes of various sizes, Beddings, Shoes
- Utensils: Jerricans (large plastic cans that hold 20 liters of water or other liquids), Crockery, Buckets
- Toiletries: Tissues, Soaps, Dettol (antibacterial cleaners), Towels
- Food: Rice, Sugar, Flour (Atta), Onions, Potatoes, Cooking oil, Tea, Milk (tetra packs or powder), Safe drinking water, Cooked Food
Medicines:
- Water purification tablets.
- Life saving drugs.
- Vaccines for malaria, cholera, typhoid, influenza.
- Pain killers including strong ones like morphine derivatives, tremadol, pethadine, kinz .
- Antibiotics e.g. tetnus, amoxil, gentamycin.
- IV cannulas
- IV Drip sets
- IV drips: normal saline, ringerlactate
- Local anesthetics (injections)
- Cotton bandages, cotton.
- Surgical instruments: e.g needle holders, forceps, tweezers.
- Suturing materials, Skin staples.
Charity Organizations in Pakistan:
- Al-Khidmat Foundation: Donate here.
- Edhi Foundation: Donate here.
- SUNGI: Who to contact [link], where to donate [link].
International Charity Organizations:
- Oxfam – GB
- Plan International
- International Medical Corps
- The International Rescue Committee (IRC)
- Church World Service
More Resources:
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Thanks for the copy-paste.
Thanks for this Awab bhai. Posting it to my facebook.
@Kashif – I apologize, i think I should have been more courteous to provide a more prominent link on the text [though I did have a courtesy link at the bottom]- will do so right away – yes the text of the solutions were so comprehensive and perfect that I could not change a bit – thank you – hope we all can spread the word and make a difference
@teeth maestro!
how the people living abroad can help the people of affected area?
is there any some kind of trust specifically for the people of sawat,buner and malaknd?…is there some bank account no specifically for the poeple of sawat?
Thanks, and please don’t mind the initial outburst.
yes,we need another donors conference like after the 2005 earth quake and a PM fund for misplaced.
yellO.pk has started the process of marking Aid Collection Points around the country where clothes, food, tents and donations are being collected for the displaced people of Swat, Buner and Lower Dir. We need your help to mobilise the efforts of those around you and make them aware about how they can mark the Collection Points as “Events” on the yellO map.
Go here to mark a Collection point on the map http://www.yello.pk/events/add or email idp@yello.pk with the Collection point details (location, telephone, timings, what to donate etc). Please encourage others to do the same and pass this message on to as many as you can.
To search for your nearest Collection points go here: http://www.yello.pk/tags/idp-swat/
To add your nearest collection point go here: http://www.yello.pk/events/add/
Just wished to share another website, yellO.pk, which is marking locations and information of aid organizations, camps and collection points to help the IDPs from the NWFP region. Please contribute by going to http://www.yello.pk/events/add or email idp [at] yello.pk with the Collection point details (location, telephone, timings, what to donate etc).
To lookup the collection points: http://www.yello.pk/tags/idp-swat/
Contributing and working together can help us minimize the damage that can be caused with the worsening situation.
@Dr Jawwad and everyone else: People living abroad can contribute directly through UNICEF or the ICRC/Pakistan Red Crescent. Both organisations have arrangements to take donations through credit cards; please do highlight your transation to let the organisations know that this money is directed for the people displaced from Malakand.
Also, before any idiots start talking about how the Red Cross and UNICEF are Zionist-Hindu-Freemason conspirators; their accounts are transparent and can be reviewed by anyone. In fact, you can even request an accounting report for every disaster area covered by them.
thanks danial.
people irritated by the presence of international NGO’s like UNICEF or RED CROSS not becaus they are corrupt but because of their “side activities”
like gathering strategic informations(human intelligence division) and preaching christianity.
if you say that they are angels on the earth then i can only laugh on this notion.
any way thanks for sharing.
The Red Cross and UNICEF do not preach anything. Get your facts straight before slagging off the few international organisations brave enough to still operate in our conflict zones. And as a former relief worker, I can tell you that while people become sceptical about missionary NGOs, they have not a single bad word to say about the likes of UNICEF, Save the Children or the Red Cross. In fact, IDPs prefer to live in camps supervised by these organisations.
And this thread is about the IDPs and helping them, so Dr Jawwad, I don’t want this to be a debate between us. Let’s agree to disagree and continue this somewhere else.
Also, as pointed out in the post, there are some local NGOs that have done stellar work, like Edhi, Al Khidmat and Sungi. If you’re sceptical about foreign organisations, please do donate to the local NGOs.
For people outside Pakistan, a link to the UNHCR donation site. This is the most efficient way of donation; UNHCR is there on the ground and has more experience than even the government of Pakistan in handling IDPs in that culture and that terrain.
http://www.unhcr.org/emergency/pakistan/global_landing.html
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Why can’t Pakistan Army support these people?
They are the ones who displaced them.
It will be very easy for Pakistan Army. Just give these people 10% of the money they made $$$$$$ CHA-CHING
or may be these minister can spend some of the money here instead of the strip clubs they went to:
http://www.jang.net/jm/5-14-2009/pic.asp?picname=10_01.gif
http://www.helpidp.org
Comprehensive website on the ongoing IDP crisis. Gives current facts and figures and has a section for donations and volunteers.
It has been started by a Peshawar based initiative Emergency Response Unit
(Please spread the word)
I have come across a few and i am giving their links below. All of them have a repute of genuinely helping out people in need and during disasters
https://www.helpinghandonline.org/donation/pakistanIDPs_fund.asp
https://www.irw.org/donate_now/
http://www.islamic-relief.com/NewsRoom/NewsDetails.aspx?newsID=234
http://al-khidmatfoundation.org/donate-here.php
http://www.prcs.org.pk/help.asp
http://www.wfp.org/how-to-help/individuals
my name is imdad ullah i shift swat to peshawar my name is registerd idps NWFP peshawar .request for all friends please help me this time i m jobless.
thanks.
mobile no.+923469403011
Salam
My name is Mohammad Matloob Awan. I am a residence of Mansehra Disstric. I Have a local trust named “Smiling Faces” runing under the supervision of four board of directors so far we has been working on the vulnerable children in over area. Our main focus is education and the Basic needs (food cloth and health)
As now the refugees of Swat are coming to Mansehra and there is a tent village in Jaba (near to our native village Attershisha) we are planing to serve those families esspecially thier children in emergency and we also planing to open a school in the tent village.
We need funds to accomplish our plans. both individual and donor aggencies are requested to donate.
Plz contact on the numbers and mailing address given below
Cell # +923459467361 , +923335023209
Email address matloob_awan@hotmail.com, awan.matloob@gmail.com
Postal address
Village atter Shisha tehsil and district Mansehra.
All the documents proposals and beneficiaries data can be provided on demand
Looking for you daonation to bring the smile back on the faces of roses of Swat.
Slam to all. Muslim Aid UK is also active in Pakistan through its Field office in islamabad. Anyone who wants to donate in Uk can contact Muslim Aid http://www.muslimaid.org.pk Please donate generously.
We are currently hosting 200 families in camp, distributed food items and non food items, providing health facilaties and non formal education.
This is great. I’ve posted this on my blog. I’m a photographer based in Canada and I am trying to raise funds through my Photography.
We really need to help our brothers and sisters at a time like this.
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Dear all, No body has provided the list of children who are now alone. I mean the list of those children whose parents are no more in this world due to this opreation of swat. If this is available than any body who want to adopt a chlid can see the details fro the list. so it is requested to upload the list, if any, of the orphan children.
How can I donate clothes to a Pakistani/International agency. I am an Indian student in USA and I can only donate clothes, not money!
ASSALAMUALIKUM.well i am sohail from swat.me and my family are sufferd alott in this war.my 2 lovely aunts were died and my sweet home is levelled with ground,there is nothing left for us in my village.my name is a written in registerd idp list.i am wondering why my family is still deprived from any kind of aid so far.every time my father visit there they say its not our turn as yet so about 2 months has elapsed so when our turn of getting aid will come???? and i dont know where those millions of dollars went out sent by alomost the whole world.i need a platform to reach my voice to those who are in power and rulling us.we have NOTHING left for SURVIVAL.i have no doubt on ur sincere helping hands towards we idps yet i must say plz you guys help my family and let help me in reaching my voice to those who are suposed to help we idps.my contact no is 03323223798.best regards
i am waiting for ur reply,why r u all so silent????
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we displaced from our inhirted place we oppear to the whol nation of pkaistan to help us in that critical cercumstanses
the rich people should like to support
to thats idps of sawt
salam everybdy….hw r ya all.i must tell u all dat there z nothing to cry for help..dont blast ur throats invain…food nd money nd etc etc fr IDPs these all are just rubbishhhhhhhhhhh.y dont the politicians fill their pockets that they give us……..leave this…Allah will help us……love u all….LAWANGEN……. cupid_immybloom@yahoo.com is ma ID..u can cntct me.THNXXXXXXX
Assalamualaikum. I come from Indonesia, i feel so sad hear anything that happen there, but i really want to help. but its so far away. so i want help all of my brothers and sisters there with pray in my shalat every day. Allahu akbar !
WE NEED TO SUPPORT MAIAKAN IDPS AT THIS TIME
My name is Bakhshish Elahi working Sungi Development Foundation . Sungi was establish in 1989 with the mission and vision how we support the disadvantaged and most volunarable section of life in Pakistan. Being a friend of Omer Asghar Khan what you ncan do alease do it for the poor of this country Pakistan and especoally for IDPs.
It would be best if our political parties unite on one platform for the sake of displaced Pakistanis. However, this process of helping Pakistanis must not end here but should continue till all of the stranded Pakistanis are back in their homeland. Lets abandon are ethnic politics for our great country by providing for every single Pakistani irrespective of his cast, creed and religion!
salam to all..i m from swat serving in a college as a lecturer.here in swat the whole infrastructure is disturb,most of the educational and vocational institutes have been demaged.inorder to support the effected students we are establishing an IT institude along with a vocational institute in swat.i request all the donars and organization to contribute in this holy task.
thanx
03018048716
is there any help for the idps students?? i m a student of engg n can’t afford my expences any more,, so i appeal all the helping hands to help us in this time of difficulties… tnx…
salam.please do my reghistration.i need that 25000 as a help.which is my rite as i am an idp of swatr.if u want to help the IDPS then i am the one who need ur help.my name is muhammad ilyas.i am from swat and i am an idp.i havent got registration so far.i didnt got 25,000 rs or any other help.please help me and my family.my nic number is 15602-1389130-3.my mobile number is 03328931454.please call me for any information.i am waiting for ur call and help.i shall be very grateful to you.thanks alot.
assalam o alaikom!! is there any help for the idps students??? i m the final year student of engineering.. n i belong to swat.. we can’t afford the expenses of the university any more.. i.e the tuitoin fees e.t.c… so i appeal to all the helping hands to help us in this difficult time.. the PM of PAKISTAN has already announced the total fees concession for us.. but action has not been taken yet
salam
i am a cabdidate of swat.the condition of swat are very bed now adays.i want to full fill all that duty that bring the peice of swat.i need ur help and suport.being a muslim and as apakistani.pakistan zindabad
i wish i could help u all guys,though i am suffered alott myself.i always keep others on priority over myself