Tag: relief
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PkRelief Update
A blog post by Faisal Kapadia posted on SARelief.com summarizing the ongoing flood relief projects this week. One can donate to SARelief by following through with this link and you may also stay updated of the accounts here Relief initiatives completed this week (29th Sept) Abdul Sattar Ishaqani and Nishat Wellfare Organization combined with our support organized…
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Cure Rayan
A three year old child Rayan, was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia, a fatal form of blood cancer, which causes damage and death by of normal cells in the bone marrow, and slowly spreads to other organs Rayan is now in URGENT need of a bone marrow transplant. He has not been able to find…
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Guidelines for Medical Clinics in Flood Affected Areas
I stumbled across this briliant document prepared by Dr. Shehla Baqi and her associates, they been doing outstanding flood relief in the region from the start and have drafted this document which can truly serve as a survival guide to managing and running a medical camp in the flood affected region of Pakistan. I must…
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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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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…
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Flood Relief Incident Reporting goes Live
The past seven days Faisal Chohan a TEDFellow has been feverishly working to establish an incident reporting website at http://pakrelief.crowdmap.com/ to monitor the flooding situation in Pakistan. This is technically a Ushahidi platform connected to an SMS shortcode allowing people with cell phones to give live updates of issue on the ground. Ideally this incident…
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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…
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Army Selective in Rescuing Flood Victims
Guest Post by Moneeza Ahmed This past week, I was stuck in Yasin Valley in Gizar District (a district next to Gilgit District) for a project and I had to trek and walk by way back to Gilgit City, which took about four days. Despite the trip being extremely scary and dangerous at times, I…
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Swat Relief Update [Day 2 @ 9:00]
Its early morning, Faris arrived early at 5 am from Lahore and literally crashed out without speaking a word. Were up at 8 and are ready to head off to Mardan. Truck scenario is that two trucks were dispatched last night and will arrive very soon. Items totalling the delivery of one more truck await…