Tag: OffroadPakistan

  • OffroadPakistan – Expedition Poldat 2011 [Video]

    On Jan 28th the OffroadPakistan headed off to Hingol for three days of offroading, camping and exploring the wildreness of Hingol National Park heading upstream to a location called Poldat. Here produced is a short and fun video produced by Khizer Rashid

  • Voices of Pakistan: OffroadPakistan’s Flood Relief Efforts

    Voices of Pakistan talks about OffroadPakistan‘s flood relief effort Dr. Awab Alvi, a member of Offroad Pakistan, a 4×4 adventure group, tells us how they have helped the flood affected in the Sindh region of Pakistan. They have refurbished a pediatric ward and are looking for volunteer doctors and a constant supply of medicine to…

  • Winter Clothes Hampers Distributed in Dadu & Juhi

    OffroadPakistan team would like to thank Nishat Welfare Organization [A. Sattar Ishaqani] and Naari Development Organization [Dr Meher Zaidi] for helping us to distribute over 1000 winter clothes hampers in the regions of Dadu and Juhi. The OffroadPakistan was able to identify the need to supply flood relief to Dadu [Nishat Welfare Organization] and also…

  • TED Blog: Fellows Friday with Awab Alvi

    An interview of mine published on TEDBlog on Friday November 5th 2010, just sharing it here for reference.  This interview also included a new interactive feature for TEDFellows facebook page where a question was put up for discussion, the question asked from this interview was “Why do you think there’s a lack of media coverage…

  • Before and After Pictures of Shikarpur Pediatric Ward

    Just a follow up on the Shikarpur Pediatric Ward, Umair Jaffer prepared a short PDF file on the before and after pictures of the work done at the Shikarpur pediatric ward as a collaborative effort between OffroadPakistan and CDRS-Shine Humanity. The older three wards were revamped by OffroadPakistan and we also took the burden of…

  • Shikarpur Pediatric Ward revamped

    A team of offroadpakistan headed to Shikarpur this last weekend to oversee the restoration of the Pediatric Ward at the Civil Hospital Shikarpur, Khalid Omar and Sabiha Omar represented us for the four days to supervise the total cleanup and painting of the three existing wards which included repair of the existing beds, the installation…

  • PK Relief Mission #8 – Video Montage

    Faisal Kapadia compiles a short video of our Medical Camp at Moro – Mission #8. I too am surprised at the impressive impact we have had on the flood relief PK RELIEF STATS: 8 relief missions, 47,500 people given with 5-days of food, 25,000 people fed with ready to eat food, 480 families provided with…

  • Relief Mission #8 – Medical & Flood Relief to Moro & Dadu

    The Offroadpakistan team this week embarked on a medical relief mission to Moro and Dadu. The plans for a Medical camp had been taking place since the start of the flood effort, but our initial focus was on providing food and shelter as in the first phase of the disaster that was the basic need…

  • Laidback Show Episode 24 – C-130 Flood Relief to Jacobabad

    The OffroadPakistan team boarded a Pakistan Air Force C-130 aircraft this last week to deliver over 1200 food hampers to the flood affected victims of Jacobabad. Jacobabad has been cut off from relief work due to the inaccesbility of teh Jacobabad-Shikarpur road and the only possible way to access this area is to be airlifted…

  • Some thoughts into Planning for the Flood Relief in Sindh

    Over the past two days our team of volunteers at Motorsports Club of Pakistan and the OffroadPakistan have been in some intense discussion on what might be the best course of action. We have been busy raising funds locally and commitments have reached to a tune of close to Rs. 2.5 million. The online drive…

  • Pakistan Flood Relief Campaign – Donate Generously

    The earthquake’s that have hit Pakistan in 2005 and 2008  were regarded as the worst tragedy for the nation. Few have realized that the recent floods have in fact caused more damage then those earthquake’s did. As per latest reports official figures stand at 1600 dead and 12 million left homeless. The Monsoon rains began  two…

  • Offroad Expedition to Poldat – Pictures & GPS Tracks

    This Friday a few offroad enthusiasts headed off to Hingol National Park deep within Baluchistan some 280km from Karachi, reaching Aghore Camp we then dropped off the metaled Coastal Highway and headed into total offroading wilderness going up north some 40-odd km to a location called Poldat. Poldat is a natural mountainous gorge which is…

  • Laidback Show Episode 17 – Expedition Poldat

    Faisal Kapadia and I headed off to Hingol National Park for three exciting days of offroading adventure along with OffroadPakistan for Expedition Poldat. During that trip we recorded our 17th Episode of the Laidback Show – Enjoy

  • Laidback Show Episode 14 – Campfire Edition

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  • Offroad Adventure to the Sorh Valley in Baluchistan

    As part of yet another offroad expedition the Offroad Pakistan group headed to the Sorh Valley in Baluchistan to enjoy the challenges that the terrain could throw at our vehicles. A group of about 40-odd enthusiasts packed themselves in 17-odd offroading vehicles started this adventure on Friday morning and headed to Sorh, Baluchistan in the…