Important Appeal

 

 

Please Support Pakistan's Earthquake Relief Operations

 

Now that the roads leading to the Northern Areas and beyond are finally accessible, people (humanitarian aid workers, media, ngos etc) are able to reach these hard hit areas. We’re getting information and seeing images of the destruction and desolation. Horrifying and heart wrenching eye-witness accounts are pouring in; villages have disappeared, entire communities have perished, rotting corpses all around- the stench emanating has pervaded the atmosphere and so many unaccounted for especially children.

 

Complete and total human misery and suffering.

 

I'm working on the relief efforts with several organizations, ngos and concerned citizens in Pakistan - we have coordinated efforts so we can handle the situation effectively and extensively and need as much help as possible. The aim is to provide aid to the hardest hit and least accessible areas.

Please find below a list of relief items requested/needed and several organizations and ngos working on the ground 24/7 to provide relief; be it goods, doctors, out reach or advocacy.

 

Short term goal is to provide relief

Long term goal is help re-build.

 

Please forward to as many people as possible especially the media. The more positive and pro-active attention we can generate the better it is for those in distress- the situation is DIRE. I’m enclosing my complete contact information and am available to field any and all queries.

 

Thanking you

Ayesha Hasan

Development Consultant

Karachi, Pakistan

Mobile-

Email: info@aopp.org

 

North West Frontier Province: worst affected areas are Balakot, Mansehra, Shangla, Haripur, Battagram, Allai, Kaghan and Oghi. 

Kashmir: worst affected areas in Rawalakot, Bagh, Pallandri, Hajira, Kotli (specific valleys which have not been accessed yet and where serious damage has also occurred are Sudangali, Forward Kahuta, Dir Kot).

 

Relief Goods

Items requested:

 

  1. First Aid kits
  2. Bandages
  3. Gauze
  4. Splints
  5. Injections
  6. Cannulas
  7. Drips -Saline
  8. Anti-tetanus
  9. ORS
  10.  Cough syrups
  11. Hydrogen Peroxide
  12. Anti-biotic Cream
  13. Pain Killers
  14. Diarrhea Medication
  15. Adhesives
  16. Scissors
  17. Tweezers
  18. Soap
  19. Plastic Bags
  20. Blankets
  21. Tents –preferably non-flammable
  22. Canned Goods
  23. Can Openers
  24. Powdered Milk
  25. Plastic Sheets
  26. Torches
  27. Ropes
  28. Axes
  29. Shovels
  30. Whistles
  31. Brooms
  32. Good shoes
  33. Candles
  34. Matches
  35. Tissues
  36. Bottles Water
  37. Water Purifies
  38. Cooking Utensils
  39. Cutlery
  40. Crockery
  41. Warm clothing such as sweatshirts/pants

 

List compiled by a doctor with 30 yrs of humanitarian relief work experience with Doctors without Borders, worked Iran and Turkey after the earthquakes and then the Asian Tsunami.

 

Earth Quake Relief Funds:

 

1. The Citizens Foundation: TCF Relief Fund

The Citizens Foundation

9th Floor, NIC Building

Abbasi Shaheed Road

Karachi-75530

Pakistan

Tel: +92-21-565-3195 / 567-1127

Fax: +92-21-568-2772

Email: quake-relief@thecitizensfoundation.org

Web: http://www.thecitizensfoundation.org/

 

Please visit the following urls for donation info:

www.thecitizensfoundation.org  Or go directly to www.thecitizensfoundation.org/relief_fund/index.htm

For US donation:

Please send donations (clearly marked for Earthquake Relief, so they can track separately from regular educational donations) to either:

The Citizens Foundation, USA

100 Tri State International

Suite 128

Lincolnshire, IL 60069

Or

The Citizens Foundation, USA

Suite 1800,

11 East 44th Street,

New York, New York 10036

Contact Person: Danial Noorani, President TCF/USA Email: d.noorani@worldnet.att.net

Send Relief Goods to:

Plot 331, Street-1, Sector-I/93

Industrial Area

Islamabad

Pakistan

 

*Please wrap the relief goods in plastic bags or sheets; list the items included and mark the package- “TCF Relief Fund”

 

2. Omar Asghar Khan Development Foundation

Account Details: MCB Bank Ltd, Abbottabad, Pakistan

 

Send Relief Goods to:

Alpine Hotel

Mansehra Road

Abbotabad

 Or

Sungi Development Foundation

House No. 7-A, Street No. 10,

Sector F-8/3, Islamabad

 

Contact Person: Ali Asghar Khan - +92-300-856-5279

 

*Please wrap the relief goods in plastic bags or sheets; list the items included and mark the package- “SUNGI Development Foundation” or ‘The Omar Asghar Khan Development Foundation”


US Dollar Account Number: 0585-12-02-542-2
Swift Code: MUCBPKKAA
Pak Rupee Donations:

Account Number: 0585-01-01-6019-3

 

3. The Rural Support Programmes Network (RSPN)

Rural Support Programmes Network
No 7, Street 49, Sector F 6/4
 Islamabad
 Pakistan

Tel:      00-92-51-2821736/2822476
Fax:     00-92-51-2829115

Email: shandana@rspn.org.pk
Web:   www.rspn.org 

 

Individual donation of funds in US $ or UK pounds sterling for out of Pakistan-based contributors may be made into RSPN's account in Islamabad

 

US $ Account No 75127407

Swift Code is APKKAISB

ABN Amro Bank, F 7 Markaz

Account name Rural Support Programmes Network.

 

Pounds Sterling Account No 5801-501437-054

Swift Code UNBLPKKAXXX

At Union Bank F 7

Markaz Islamabad

Account name Rural Support Programmes Network). 

 

RSPN will purchase most needed relief items in consultation with affected areas (through NRSP and SRSP) and utilize part of the funds to transport items purchased to villages. You can specify where you want things sent or leave this up to us.

 

The RSPN is the largest non-governmental network of rural development programmes in the country working with 72,000 Community Organizations in 73 of the country's 120 districts. Some of the worst affected districts of Pakistan during the recent disaster have strong RSP presence and outreach. The RSPs here are able to efficiently access, identify and provide support to destroyed villages and families, through Community Organizations that they already work with in hundreds of villages. The National Rural Support Programme (NRSP) has a strong presence in Pakistani Kashmir (worst affected NRSP areas are: Rawalakot, Bagh, Pallandari) and the Sarhad Rural Support Programme (SRSP) is present in the North West Frontier Province (worst affected SRSP areas are: Balakot, Battagram, Mansehra).

 

*Please note that RSPN, TCF and the Omar Asghar Khan Development Foundation are working (in some capacity or the other) through the ngo ‘SUNGI’ to deliver relief goods and provide aid. Sungi was founded by Omar Ali Asghar Khan in 1989. It has a strong deep rooted presence in the areas of Abbottabad, Haripur, Battagram, Balakot, Muzaffarabad, and Islamabad and hence is working very efficiently to disburse aid the hardest hit areas.

 

4. Edhi Foundation

Boltan Market Mithadar, Karachi
Tel: +92-21 / 225225, 226442, 226057, 744864