Author: Dr. Awab Alvi
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PkRelief raises $142,000 and Feeds over 61,800 flood affected people
Ever since the start of our first flood relief mission to Sukkur on 14th August 2010 the sheer number of lives that we may have impacted is truly unimaginable PkRelief has to its credit the following statistics Provided 36,800 people with food hampers, each hamper contained basic food for a family of 5 for a…
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Video of the conditions of a Pediatric ward in Shikarpur
A worldwide appeal by Dr. Awab Alvi for upgrading the pediatric ward in Shikarpur. He takes you through a walk-thru tour of the Pediatric ward at the Civil Hospital Shikarpur to show the deplorable the conditions that have been aggravated due to a large influx of flood related victims into the area. The ward looks…
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Song for flood victims by LAAL – Doob Gaya Hai
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Laidback Show Episode 22 – Flood Relief
Faisal Kapadia and Dr. Awab Alvi head to Sukkur and Shikarpur along with offroadpakistan & SA Relief to deliver relief to the affectees in the region. During the trip they produced the 22nd episode of the Laidback Show
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Flood Relief Mission #3 to Thatta
Starting this third flood relief mission, yet again we will document it live via GPS and also CoveritLive. I believe that is the only way to share with the world what we see and hear on the ground. Flood Relief Mission 3 – Thatta #PkRelief
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Report: Flood Relief Mission #2 to Shikarpur
On return after our first relief effort to Sukkur two weeks back we had several meetings amongst the core group of volunteers adopting a long term medical relief and rehabilitation strategy, however during the subsequent week we continued to receive urgent demands for help emanating from many of the inundated villages of Sukkur and Shikarpur…
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PICTURES: Flood Relief Mission #2 to Shikarpur
Pictures from our Flood Relief mission to Shikarpur this weekend in conjunction with OffroadPakistan and SARelief.com [nggallery id=86]
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Pakistan Flood Relief: Field Notes from Doctors to Sukkur – Day 2
If there is anything the government should learn from this flood, it is to take education and women empowerment more seriously. The enormous task of taking care of so many IDPs iz only magnified many fold by lack of a good base. If these IDPs were a little better educated it would have been so much easier for the govt.…
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Flood Relief Mission 2 – Live Tracking & Tweeting
As customary to our Relief trips to the flooded areas, Faisal Kapadia and I will be live GPS tracking and Live Tweeting all along the way. Our plan is to depart Karachi on the morning of Sunday 22nd August accompany a convoy of 8 relief good trucks, be joined by 7-8 accompanying vehicles with around…
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Pakistan Flood Relief: Field Notes from Doctors to District Khairpur – Day 1
Dr. Nighat Shah’s brief about our trip: Khairpur at this moment is housing huge bulk of displaced people from Larkana, Jacobabad, Shikarpur, and many smaller villages like thul, ghouspur etc. The registered displaced people are more than 50,000. Around 120 camps are housing people in small clusters. These range from 250-300 people in smaller schools…
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Pakistan Flood Relief: Notes from Kot Addu and Sukkur
Both Awab and I recently went on separate trips to Kot Addu and Sukkur, into just some of the areas affected by the flood. I think that by now, the scale of the disaster is hitting people- even Ban Ki Moon’s statement sent everyone scurrying for ideas and strategies to deal with the flood. The…
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Relief Cannot Wait – Flood Relief Mission 2 – this weekend
With a very heavy heart I write this blog post urging for immediate suport for the flood relief victims. We have been receiving word from many sources that there is dire need for food relief in the disaster stricken areas people may possibly be dying while we sit comfortably in our homes enjoying those lavish…
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PICTURES: OffroadPakistan takes Flood Relief to Sukkur
Offroadpakistan in conjunction with MotorSports Club of Pakistan and SARelief we embarked upon a relief mission to Sukkur. Offroadpakistan took charge of three trucks and distributed the goods by establishing a tent city on the outskirts of Sukkur while the MotorSports Club of Pakistan went ahead to Kashmore to distribute the remaining three trucks. Pictures…
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Flood Relief Drive to Sindh – Live Tracking
It seems we are finally off on our mission to provide relief to the flood affected region in Sukkur, Sindh. The OffroadPakistan has collected some significant funding for taking 6 trucks of relief good valued at more then Rs. 2.4 Million – four trucks of standardized basic food valued at Rs. 16,80,000, one truck containing…