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Death toll rises upto 1,400
re: Pakistan floods affected 13.8 Million: UN
links to send aid here: Pakistan floods: Links to send donations, relief goods | Journeys to democracy
Following is list of donation links, relief resources, organizations and individuals working to support flood victims of Pakistan, compiled from a facebook note Do you want to do your part in helping the Pakistani people displaced because of the recent flash flooding? Here is How ! Some details below:
Besides sending cash through below the organizations listed below, you can support by providing following commodities (please do not donate old/expired stuff. Make sure edible items are hygienic and properly packed):
- Clothing: Clothes of various sizes, Bedding, Shoes
- Utensils: Jerricans (large plastic cans that hold 20 liters of water or other liquids), Crockery, Buckets
- Toiletries: Tissues, Soaps, Dettol (antibacterial cleaners), Towels
- Food: Rice, Sugar, Flour (Atta), Onions, Potatoes, Cooking oil, Tea, Milk (tetra packs or powder), Safe drinking water, Cooked Food
Medicines:
- Water purification tablets.
- Life saving drugs.
- Vaccines for malaria, cholera, typhoid, influenza.
- Pain killers including strong ones like morphine derivatives, tremadol, pethadine, kinz .
- 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.
In Pakistan:
Edhi Foundation: Donate here
Omar Asghar Khan Development Foundation
Title of Account: Omar Asghar Khan Development Foundation
Account #: 0030445261000455
Name of Bank: MCB Bank (1028), Super Market, Islamabad-Pakistan
Swift Code: MUCBPKKAMCC
Tax Exemption: 6043/ATD/2008-09
SUNGI: Donate here
Pakistan Red Crescent Society (offices in Islamabad, Lahore, Karachi, Peshawar, Quetta and Muzaffarabad.
Pakistani Youth (facebook group)
Rescue & Relief Work ( Flood Survival)An independent group of students (facebook group)
The Volunteers/ Voice of the Civil Society: VOTCS – a registered (No. DSW 3369-K) welfare organization in Pakistan, operating as a Non-Profit, Public Charity in the North America, Inc. – 501(C)(3) Organization(Tax Exempted). Sending provisions to affectees with the help of Pakistan Army.For more info call: Hadia khan @ +92-3018245999Sadia Haroon @ +92-3218251122*Irum Farooque @ +92-3002332142. (For donations:*HABIB BANK LIMITED ACCOUNT NO: 1549-79001393-03)
RONAQ-E-QAINAAT – Young doctors are in the process of arranging a series of free medical camps in the flood affected areas. First Camp is at Nowshera.*Please Contact Ms. Alina Akhyar at [email protected], to email you the Trust’s past activities, bank account details and other queries. They have reportedly done some pretty impressive work. (Account number: 00400101065364,account title: Khadija Nadeem;Askari BankChaklala Scheme 3 branchRawalpindi).*Khadija is the founding member, handling all donations.
International Charity Organizations:
UNHCR: Donate here.*You can also mail your donations to UNHCR:
UNHCR *-*UNHCR Canada
UNICEF USA- Donate here
United Nation’s World Food Programme: Donations are tax deductible for number of countries. Donate here
Plan International ( Pakistan specific) donate here
International Medical Corps
IRC (The International Rescue Committee): donate here:*http://www.theirc.org/news/irc-team-responds-devastating-floods-pakistan
Save the Children
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Disasters Emergency Committee - link contains member agencies which have launched appeals for Pakistan.
Follow the links on that page to donate.
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I live in Holland in a town called Schiedam (near Rotterdam) and I'd like to donate clothes. Does anyone know where I can take these items?
Copying an email from Islamic Relief for this disaster:
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The situation is becoming more desperate in northwest Pakistan, where more than one million people have been affected by flooding and landslides.
Islamic Relief launched an emergency campaign to aid the victims, with initial distributions of food and water to 5,000 people in the worst hit area of Nowshera.
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More than 1,100 people are dead, and the toll is expected to rise.
Homes have been swept away, most bridges have been destroyed, and landslides have buried entire villages. And now there is a danger of the spread of waterborne diseases, like diarrhea and even cholera.
"We are facing the worst-ever natural disaster in our history, said Chief Minister Amir Haider Khan Hoti of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province. **“[It will push us] almost 50 years back.” **
Islamic Relief’s ongoing response efforts have also included the distribution of much needed tents and blankets. Working with the United Nations’ World Food Program, Islamic Relief will be distributing food to 2,000 families in Bakhtiarabad.
More than a million victims are in need of food, water, clothing, and shelter during these difficult times.
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May Allah help these people. So sad.
re: Pakistan floods affected 13.8 Million: UN
Everybody send some money even to relatives/friends quickly (Westeren Union)…so they can dispose off the sum fast to the needy… 
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Please donate here:
http://www.savethechildren.org/emergencies/asia/pakistan-floods-2010/
Save the Children Provides Critical Health Care to Children and Families in Flood-Affected Areas of Pakistan
Mobile Health Teams Deployed; Multiple Clinics Set Up
WESTPORT, Conn. (August 2, 2010) – Save the Children has sent mobile health teams, ambulances and medicine to Pakistan’s Swat region to provide critical emergency health care to children and families affected by the recent flooding from the monsoon rains.
“Save the Children’s medical teams have seen more than 1,200 people patients in the past three days. Our doctors are reporting many cases of respiratory illness and diarrhea,” said Annie Foster, Save the Children’s associate vice president for humanitarian response. “If these illnesses are not treated promptly, they can be life-threatening to babies and young children.”
Foster added, “Save the Children is moving quickly to reach children and families in flood-affected communities in critical need of emergency health care and medicines.”
More than 1 million people at least 400,000[1]](http://www.paklinks.com/gs/#_ftnref1) of them children, have been affected by the floods, the worst the region has seen in decades. More than 1,000 people have died, with hundreds more reported missing, according to the Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
“The area’s entire infrastructure has been affected. Homes, schools and health clinics have been washed away,” said Foster. “Communities have no access to clean water or sanitation facilities. Some people are starting to drink contaminated water, which will only increase the likelihood of waterborne illnesses like diarrhea.”
Save the Children has been conducting rapid assessments throughout the flood-ravaged area. The assessment teams say nearly 90 percent of the bridges in the affected areas have been washed out, and their greatest challenge is trying to reach children and families with supplies and health care. Officials fear new rains predicted in the next 24 hours could hamper relief efforts.
Helicopter, Boats, Mules Used to Access Areas Cut Off by Floods
Save the Children, in partnership with national, district and local governments, is using all means of transportation available, including helicopters, mules and boat, to send in health staff and supplies to hard to reach communities cut off from the floods.
- In Allai, a medical team and medicines were sent in by mules due to blocked roads.
- In Jambera, a medical team was airlifted to Kund to supply urgently needed medical care to a village which has completely been cut off due to a destroyed bridge.
- In DI Khan, Save the Children has deployed three mobile health teams and two ambulances to provide emergency medical treatment.
- In Buner District, Save the Children is providing emergency health services through three Basic Health Units (comprising a medical doctor, female health worker, and a person to dispense medicine) and two ambulances.
- In Swat, two mobile health teams and eight existing Save the Children health clinics are providing emergency health services.
- In Thakot, Save the Children has deployed a medical team and established a health clinic of pre-fabricated structure, and supplied medicines to make-shift clinics by boat via the River Indus.
Agency to Begin Distributing Shelter Kits Today
The humanitarian agency also plans today to being distributing 800 shelter kits (comprising 1 plastic tarpaulin, 1 bucket with lid, two jerry cans, one plastic jug, six plastic glasses and one ten-meter rope) to flood-affected families.
Save the Children, which also responded to Tropical Storm Phet in June, the mass displacement of families in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province a year ago and the massive earthquake of 2005, has been serving the children of Pakistan and their families for three decades.
Donate Now to the Pakistan Children in Emergency Fund or call (800) 728-3843.
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:( hope pakistanis get through this
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More than 1,400 killed in floods
Tuesday, 03 Aug, 2010
A boy stands in the mud outside the textile market in Nowshera. — AFP
PAKISTAN
Flooding threatens to overwhelm Warsak Dam
Flooding threatens to overwhelm Warsak Dam
ISLAMABAD: The worst floods in memory in Pakistan have devastated the lives of more than three million people so far, a UN spokesman said on Tuesday, and fury over the unpopular government’s response to the crisis is spreading.
The catastrophe, which started almost a week ago and has killed more than 1,400 people, is likely to deepen as more rains are expected and conditions are ripe for the outbreak of disease.
Pakistani authorities are struggling to help flood victims, many of whom have lost everything and say they had not received any warnings raging waters were heading their way.
Anger was palpable in towns such as Charsadda. A Reuters reporter saw people attacking trucks distributing relief items.
Police then charged at them with batons.
Bistma Bibi, 65, who lost two grandsons in the floods, accused state relief workers of only helping friends or relatives.
“I came here at 5 o’clock in the morning. I did my best. I begged and fought but got nothing. They’re giving them (supplies) to their people,” she said.
Unicef spokesman Abdul Sami Malik told Reuters of the more than three million affected, 1.3 million people were severely impacted by the floods in the northwest, losing homes and livelihoods. More than 1,400 have died, he said.
Religious charities, some with suspected ties to militants, have stepped in to provide aid, piling pressure on the government to show it can take control.
“Since the flood hit our area, I did not see any food or relief packets from the government. Their offices have been washed away or damaged,” said school teacher Yar Mohammad, waiting to cross a makeshift bridge over a river in Swat Valley.
Religious groups played a key role in the relief effort following a 2005 earthquake in Kashmir that killed 75,000 people.
Trying times for government
The government faces resilient militants, who often try to capitalise on a lack of civil services to recruit disillusioned Pakistanis to take up arms against the state.
Authorities forecast more of the heavy monsoon rains that have been lashing the area for the past week. Pakistan’s National Disaster Management Authority said more than 29,500 houses were damaged and a key trade highway to China was blocked by flooding.
Waters have receded in some flooded areas. But Unicef’s Malik expressed concern that waters were spreading from the worst hit province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to Pakistan’s Punjab heartland, the major food-producing province, as well as the Sindh region.
Several parts of southern Punjab have been hit by floods.
The army said that 20,000 people have been rescued there.
In the northwest, the bloated, infected carcasses of animals floated on the water, raising the spectre of diseases such as cholera. Food prices are also rising sharply as agriculture has been wiped out, adding to the people’s misery.
“Roads to some districts are no longer there. Coping mechanisms of people are lost because they don’t have any assets to sell to buy food,” said Mohammad Rafiq from Unicef.
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Devastation in pictures:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38520314/ns/world_news-south_and_central_asia/
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There was a village called Kaka Khel in khyber/nwfp.. I was shocked to find out the whole village is now underwater! there were ALOT of people living there!
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May Allah bring peace and prosperity in Pakistan. I think as a nation we deserve this destruction. All of those people who lost anything in this flood, should contact their MPA, MNA, Senator and ask them "Why there is no new dam made in last 30 years?" Why these leaders run their campaign on nasty, creepy ways instead of something new. By the way India, who we all hate just to hate, construct more then 70 dams in last 60 years and we are still looking at dumb people like " Baloor" "Syed Qaim Ali Shah" and all of these local landlords to authorize the KALABAGH DAM???????
Perheps we should sit and cry over this spill milk now and dont ever complain about power outage either because there are no new dams and we are moving backwards as a nation instead of moving forward like India, Indonasia, Malaysia etc etc
What would kalabagh dam done to stop the floods in K-P? it is well south of the areas of devastation.
Pakistan floods: ‘No one was prepared for this. People are angry and afraid’
Dr Ijaz Habib, from the Merlin medical relief group, describes the chaos and devastation he has witnessed while helping with the health response from Peshawar
Pakistan floods Women pull a bed through water near Nowshera, the area worst hit by the Pakistan floods. Photograph: Anjum Naveed/AP
The monsoons have never happened like this before, people have been terrified and have had to be evacuated. In the Nowshera area, which has been worst hit, buildings have been submerged up to the rooftops and this morning the rain started again. The worst thing is that the health infrastructure has been hit and all the contingency plans have been affected.
Those warehouses of Unicef [the UN agency for children] containing medical supplies for two months were completely washed away mostly on the second day.
The main roads are now open – it was not possible to get out of Peshawar until yesterday– but the roads to the villages are still blocked and some 30,000 people are trapped.
Those who have been rescued by boats and helicopters appreciate the role of the military but now they don’t know where to go. They are asking: “Why are you leaving us here? Where are the tents? Where are the supplies? Where is the water?”
The worst problem for them is water. The wells have been contaminated by floodwater, lots of animals were trapped by floods and their bodies are decomposing.
People are angry but if you look at the scale of the problem, the government authorities and the relief agencies were never prepared for this, they were never expecting this.
There are rumours that the Warsak dam is at risk although the government is telling people not to worry and that the dam is intact. But people are afraid that things can change all of a sudden.
There have been reports of people fighting over supplies of mineral water. People have heard stories about fishermen going around looting houses and lots of people in Nowshera have left one or two people in the upper storeys behind to guard their houses.
In Swat, the damage has been mostly along the riverside with houses and hotels completely washed away. The mud houses were gone in the first day. Roads and bridges have totally gone.
One of our teams in Swat said it would take decades to restore the infrastructure. Some of the people who have been affected by the floods are already internally displaced people from the recent conflict, so they have had to move yet again.
• Medical Emergency Relief International
Well I am not engineer but its a common sense that nothing can stop the water but dams. So let say we have 5 dams, 1 on each river and the main purpose is to secure the water when we have situation like now (flood) so we can save water from becoming part of Ocean. Also all of these dams can create more power and put us on better path.
Where we get most of this power from? Mangla and Terbela Dam. Imagine if we had few dams on theway of this flood, we could had stopped the power and force of this monster, could had sme power in summer, could had used that water for irrigation to farther areas. There are so many would had, could had, should had but who cares????????
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i think the point is that kalabagh dam in particular wouldnt have helped in this flood. nobody i think would argue against dams in general. people dont oppose kalabagh dams because they're opposed to all dams, it has its own set of complicated geography related politics.
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ho opposes these damd?? Ghulam Baloor? Qaim Ali Shah or some other local landlord?
Again Pakistan is shaking a tin at the rest of the world expecting the West to happily put their pounds in.
Yet again, we'll pull you free from the wreckage of another disaster, and as the years roll by twice as many of you will need saving in the future.
All the time the politicians with their dirty snouts in the trough, the aid destined for the poor, will keep on lining their golden pockets.
Well I am not engineer but its a common sense that nothing can stop the water but dams. So let say we have 5 dams, 1 on each river and the main purpose is to secure the water when we have situation like now (flood) so we can save water from becoming part of Ocean. Also all of these dams can create more power and put us on better path. Where we get most of this power from? Mangla and Terbela Dam. Imagine if we had few dams on theway of this flood, we could had stopped the power and force of this monster, could had sme power in summer, could had used that water for irrigation to farther areas. There are so many would had, could had, should had but who cares????????
Kalabagh Dam probably would save the Punjab and Sindh province from this flood, but Noshehara Mardan Charsada will be deep 30+feet in the water.
Common sense, if u stop the flow of water(outlet) and there is a huge inlet.......