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Pakistan Flooding
The new water purification system installed at the refugee camp.
Pakistan,
2010
Update: September 27, 2010 - Medical Teams Rotating In, Supply Shipments Arrive
Doctors working with HISG through the International Disaster Response Network (IDRN) have arrived in Pakistan and are treating patients in clinics and IDP camps. This would not have been possible without your support! In addition, HISG has two more relief shipments ready to ship, one containing thousands of pounds of food and another carrying much-needed supplies. Click the funding options button on the right if you would like to support either of these shipments. Thank you for helping us connect resources to needs.
Update: September 7, 2010 - Aid teams reach devastated villages
HISG's in-country assessment teams and relief personnel has been traveling over washed out roads and through fields still soaked with thick mud and flood waters to reach villages that are in desperate need of assistance. In some places the water level was 20 feet high. Some of the roads are still impassable, even with 4 x 4 vehicles. HISG staff has been meeting with local civic and religious leaders to assess the needs in these remote locations, and in each village we have been received with overwhelming gratitude and hospitality. The people have been waiting for so long, they are deeply touched when aid arrives. HISG has already deployed two high-volume water filters, and shipped food, clothing, and medical supplies to Pakistan to distribute among these needy communities. Thank you for partnering with us in this effort! Click here to read more about how you can help
Update: August 20, 2010 - Two Water Purification Systems Deployed
SINDH PROVINCE, PAKISTAN- The high-volume water purification systems are both on their way to locations where they will provide water for thousands of people. One is headed to a refugee camp of 10,000 people, and another will be placed in a key village where it will serve a similar number of displaced people. This is a tremendous breakthrough, primarily because it offers sustainable sources of clean water, but also because it is a demonstration to the people of Pakistan that help is on the way. Thank you for supporting HISG in Project: Rescue Pakistan! To read more about the relief efforts, click here.
Update August 19, 2010. Betsy Brown, one of our partners in the IDRN, has been visiting several villages that have yet to receive aid of any kind. She says that diseases like scabies and cholera are spreading very rapidly, and is looking at establishing free clinics in a number of these villages. You can use the links below to listen to a two-part interview she recorded on her way into the disaster zone.
Part 1 of 2 (AUDIO)
Part 2 of 2 (AUDIO)
UPDATED AUG 17, 2010: Pakistan's worst floods in living memory have completely overwhelmed the Pakistani Government as the country braces for more storms that threaten to deepen the humanitarian crisis that has already had a greater impact than the 2004 Tsunami, 2005 Kashmir Earthquake and 2010 Haiti Earthquake combined. HISG is working alongside the International Disaster Response Network (IDRN) to provide urgent relief to some of the hardest hit areas. The focus of this cooperative effort is to bring clean water, supplies, and medical services to the suffering population.
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Operational Update Summary Aug 17, 2010: Additional supplies and a container have been located; new personnel arriving in region this week and next; with limited NGO response, HISG is receiving more new pleas for help daily; IDRN partners are stepping up to assist; large water systems are being moved into place; food distribution with regional partner increases; new focus on equipping water distribution trucks has been added to the plan; new attempts to broaden financial support for these efforts has begun.
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Record monsoon rains triggered floods and landslides that washed away entire villages and ruined farmland in one of the country's most impoverished and volatile regions, affecting over 20 million people. The flooding has killed 1,600 people and displaced over 2 million. However, the response from the international community has been inadequate and slow to mobilize. Cholera is quickly becoming a threat. Clean drinking water and sanitation are urgently needed to stop water-borne disease from spreading after Pakistan's worst floods in 80 years following relentless monsoon rains.
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The rains are continuing to fall throughout Pakistan and are forecasted to continue. It is estimated that the entire country will be impacted before the flooding reaches its climax. A disaster which the UN has claimed is the “Worst Disaster in UN History”.
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Click here to view a slide show of the devastation.
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Charsadda, one of the worst hit areas, where houses and shops were razed to the ground Wednesday as if a massive earthquake had jolted the region, has become a primary focus of the IDRN. Shah Alam village near Charsadda said they had received no assistance from the government, only from local families. Relief officials in these areas have thrown up their hands in despair and they say "What can we do?" It is these locations, ones forgotten by the outside world, that the IDRN focuses its efforts. Currently, HISG is working with local partners in Pakistan and a broader network of international organizations to provide food and medical relief to these remote areas. Medical teams from around the world are being mobilized, medical supplies are being made available, supplies are being consolidated for delivery, and HISG is working with the IDRN to provide relief to those that are the most affected.
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HISG has prepared a comprehensive response that has the potential to reach thousands of people. If you would like to learn more about this life-saving effort, please click the HISG IDR Initial Plan PDF Document link above. This document is a call to change the course of a nation that is on the brink of complete chaos.
If you would like to help in Pakistan alongside HISG, you can contact us through email, or join one of the Pakistan discussions on StarfishCommunity.net, or contribute online to the relief effort. Our extensive network in Pakistan gives us a direct channel to use your gift where it will make the biggest impact. Thank you for your support.
This project has been tagged as an International Disaster Response project. Of the 14 IDR Primary Service Categories, activities took place in these areas.
International Disaster Response
1. Water Services
2. Food Services
3. Shelter Services
4. Medical Services
5. Individual Assistance Services
6. Personal Hygiene Services
7. Counseling and Spiritual Support
8. Physical Reconstruction Services
9. Logistics Management and Services
10. IT, Telecommunications
11. Special Needs Services
12. Donations Management
13. Professional Responders
14. Transition and Recovery
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HIST Model or here IDR Model.
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