As you may already know, the disaster that struck Pakistan's Kashmir and NWFP areas has left more than 40,000 dead and 5+ million homeless (full stats are not in yet, many areas are not accessible at all because of damaged roads due to landslides), there is dire need of clothes, food items, medicines and camping equipment for the survivors.
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The winter has arrived and rain and hailstorms have severely hurt the rescue efforts. Please ask your local volunteers to collect as many donations as possible.
Lot of people in Pakistan are collecting donations and lots of cargo trucks, airplanes and helicopters have been dispatched to the affected areas, but the most important items that are short in supply are tents. No more tents are available in and around Lahore, and manufacturers have order for thousands of tents, but they won't be ready for many days.
5 million (possibly many more) people are left with no shelter, which means at least one million tents are required.
A list of Organizations accepting donations has been compiled here: Link.
Even better than sending monetary aid would be to purchase tents and send them to Pakistan. The best thing would be to send them to Islamabad (because Isalmabad is the closest big city, 95 km from Muzaffarabad, the epicenter) or Lahore (another 300km from Islamabad) because even with all the monetary aid, tents are not available here at all.
Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) will carry all relief goods for free from all of its stations around the world
PIA's booking Offices across the Globe (alphabetized by cities)
(New York, Chicago, Houston in USA, Toronto in Canada)
List of PIA's worldwide Stations by Countries
Please take action as quickly as possible, because the winter is here and the survivors are looking forward to our help. A little help from each one of us can create a world of a difference.
Feel free to contact me (waqasusman AT gmail) for any more information you need.
Thank you,
Waqas Usman
Google News
The winter has arrived and rain and hailstorms have severely hurt the rescue efforts. Please ask your local volunteers to collect as many donations as possible.
Lot of people in Pakistan are collecting donations and lots of cargo trucks, airplanes and helicopters have been dispatched to the affected areas, but the most important items that are short in supply are tents. No more tents are available in and around Lahore, and manufacturers have order for thousands of tents, but they won't be ready for many days.
5 million (possibly many more) people are left with no shelter, which means at least one million tents are required.
A list of Organizations accepting donations has been compiled here: Link.
Even better than sending monetary aid would be to purchase tents and send them to Pakistan. The best thing would be to send them to Islamabad (because Isalmabad is the closest big city, 95 km from Muzaffarabad, the epicenter) or Lahore (another 300km from Islamabad) because even with all the monetary aid, tents are not available here at all.
Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) will carry all relief goods for free from all of its stations around the world
PIA's booking Offices across the Globe (alphabetized by cities)
(New York, Chicago, Houston in USA, Toronto in Canada)
List of PIA's worldwide Stations by Countries
Please take action as quickly as possible, because the winter is here and the survivors are looking forward to our help. A little help from each one of us can create a world of a difference.
Feel free to contact me (waqasusman AT gmail) for any more information you need.
Thank you,
Waqas Usman
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