Relief Efforts

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (previously called NWFP)
  •  The Citizens Foundation:  TCF Relief   
    •  TCF has a network of 660 school units in 68 towns and cities across Pakistan.  TCF staff and supporters aim to provide food packages, water purifying packs and basic medicines to flood affected people.  TCF team has set itself a target of 20 million meals over a period of 30 days.  
    • Initial target areas TCF will serve are:  Mansehra, Nowshera, Mianwali, Khushab/Shahpur, Muzzafargarh, Dera Murad Jamali and Sukkur.                                                                                                                                              For more information and/or to donate, please visit:  http://www.tcfusa.org/
    •      For contact information for organization, click on this link:  Directory page. 
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    Swat, Pakistan
    • J.A.W.A.N. Organization:
      • Relief efforts have been stalled because 67 bridges across Swat River were swept away. 
      • Food was delivered, with help from the Pakistani Army on a 7 hour route using mules and horses.  900 families given food and 300 packages dropped via helicopter to the town of Matta.
      • 250 food packages delivered to Alpure and 50 food packages distributed in Mingora city.
      • Water filtration system provided to Mingora city
      • To contact this organization, please click here.  

        
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    •  Future Leads of Pakistan (FLP) provides humanitarian aid in Swat, Pakistan:
      • FLP has provided 200 relief packages to victims in Kalam and Bahrain (northern Swat) with help from the Pakistan Army.  Packages were airlifted to the area because bridges and roads have been destroyed by the flooding.  
      • 100 food packages were distribute to families in Bangladesh Kalay, Saidu Sharif, Swat, Faizabad, Mingora and Swat.  
      • FLP is collaborating with SA relief and Offroaders Pakistan.  For more information, please visit http://www.sarelieft.com.  FLP plans to send packages and setup camps in Sukkur on Aug 22, 2010.  
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    • Save the Children:  
      • In partnership with the World Food Program, Save the Children has fed up to 85,000 families in Swat, Dera Ismail Khan, Tank, Muzaffargarh, Sukkur, Jacobabad, and Shikarpur.
      • Mobile and stationary medical teams in Swat, Allai, Dera Ismail Khan, Buner, Sindh, Shikarpur, Sukkur, Rajanpur, Balochistan and Punjab
      • Provided tents, shelter kits and other essentials in Swat for 11,800 people.  In Dera Ismail Khan, gave shelter to 9,600 people.

    Nowshera and surrounding area:
    • Future Leaders of Pakistan (FLP) Organization:
      • Has distributing food packets to about 500 people in Fazil Koruna (village between Nowshera and Peshawar), Union Council Kurkvay, Tehsil Pabbi and District Nowshera.  Nearby villagers have taken shelter in schools and homes in Fazil Koruna, which has not been affected too badly.  Fazil Koruna has opened their hearts and homes to their fellow Pakistanis.  
      • Taj Shah, from Fazil Koruna said this about the situation:  “By the grace of God, our village has not been affected too badly, except for mud on the roads, and we are able to host our fellow countrymen from nearby villages. What we need now is food supplies!”
      •  Organization plans on sending a team of doctors to Fazil Koruna
    Sindh, Pakistan:
    • Edhi Foundation:  Edhi is to Pakistan what Mother Teresa was to India. 
    • Edhi Foundation has shifted 25,000 flood victims of Ghauspur area to different schools of Sukkur, Sindh. The foundation has also provided free meals to 12,000 flood victims in Sukkur.  1,700 staff are involved in rescue and relief activities in Pannu Aqil and adjoining areas.

      Karachi Digest reported that Edhi foundation is collecting the following items:
      Basics:
      ·         Floats
      ·         Life jacket, Floatable items
      ·         Styrofoam rings or flat boards to float
      ·         Camping tents
      ·         Thick quilts to serve as beds
      ·         Buckets
      ·         Cooking utensils
      ·         Reusable crockery-Plastic
      ·         Plastic jerricans to collect/carry water
      Food/Water:
      ·         Dry milk/Tetra pack, Biscuits
      ·         Disposable juices/milk/water bottles
      ·         Nimko

      Ration packs for families:
      ·         Bottled water
      ·         Flour/Aata (10-20 kg bags)
      ·         Rice (2-5 kg bags)
      ·         Cooking oil/ghee (2-5 kg packets)
      ·         Sugar (2-5 kg packets)
      Mini SURVIVAL packs:  (Cost about R.s 1050)
      ·         Dal Chana (2 Kg)
      ·         Aata (10 kilo
      ·         Ghee( 2.5 kg)
      ·         Sugar(1 kg)
      ·         Rice (3 kilo)
      ·         1 pack namak
      ·         1/2 pao red chilli
      ·         1 kilo khajoor ,Adha pao black pepper
      ·         Dry milk/ Tetra pack
      Basics for Women/Children:
      ·         Sanitary napkins ,Clothes-Shalwar kameez of various sizes
      ·         Rubber slippers
      ·         Scarves
      Basics for men:
      ·         Clothes-Shalwar Kameez of various sizes
      ·         Rubber slippers
      Other hygiene basics:
      ·         Bath Soaps-Dettol
      ·         Toothpaste/Tooth brushes
      ·         Towels
      ·         Toilet paper
      ·         Washing soap/Detergent soap
      Medicines:
      ·         Water purification tablets.
      ·         Life saving drugs.
      ·         Vaccines for malaria, cholera, typhoid, influenza.
      ·         Pain killers including strong ones like morphine derivatives, tremadol, pethadine, kinz and basics like Panadol,Ibrufen,Ponston
      ·         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.
      ·         Glucose injections
      ·         Pyodine
    For further details contact:   edhikarachi@hotmail.com

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    • Future Leaders of Pakistan (FLP):  
      • FLP is collaborating with SA relief and Offroaders Pakistan.  For more information, please visit http://www.sarelieft.com.  FLP plans to send packages and setup camps in Sukkur on Aug 22, 2010.  
      • Please donate generously:  MOTORSPORTS CLUB PAKISTAN account at Samba Bank Ltd. in Karachi. A/C#06500379349
    • Takhleeq Foundation:                         
      • Urgent request for medical team to serve victims affected in Ghotki via mobile camping.  Team:  doctor (medical degree required along with field experience), dispenser (diploma, work experience and committed to work), and LHV (degree and work experience).
    • SANGAT Development Foundation:                                                          
      • Organization has conducted assessments in district Shaheed Benazir Abad
      • Emergency Plan that organization plans to work on:
        • Safe shelter, food, water, medication, essential items
        • Milk and vaccinations for children
        • Water jerry canes with chlorine to victim
      • For more information, please click on Directory page.
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    Balochistan, Pakistan:                                                                      
    •  Save the Children:  Is providing medical care to women and children. 
    Punjab, Pakistan:
    • Awaz Foundation Pakistan: Centre for Development Services  
      • Providing food in 4 areas:  Multan, Taunsa, Jampur and Alipur
        • Multan team is providing food items daily to victims
        • Alipur team has done 800 registrations of victims in the shelter camps. 
        • Taunsa team is providing medical aid to individuals in shelter camps.
        • Jampur team have started the  registration process of victims.
        • For more information and/or to donate, please click on Directory page. 
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