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Month: August 2010
Following is an update from Owais Shaikh on Facebook. To help please contact Owais Shaikh at 0333-2141881.
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We  along with a few friends (i.e. Raees, Kamran, Saad, Shahrukh, Uzair, Zahid, Imran) heading into different parts of Sindh, all the way from Ghotki to Thatta along with other areas that are expected to be flooded in the near future. At this point we are collecting food items and trying to arrange shelter in the form of water proof tents for the Flood Victims.
In order to keep this more organized we recommend if packages can be made with 5kg Rice (Chawal Chota Dana), 5kg flour (Atta), 1kg Basin, 800 gms Salt, 500 gms Dates (Khajoor), 1kg Sugar, 400 gms Dried Milk (no liquid milk as it has the risk of going bad due to the heat), Juice, 2.5 kg Cooking oil (Ghee), 1 kg Channa, 1 kg Lentils (Daal).
According to the UN, the recent floods in Pakistan have affected over 4 million individuals – and the human toll continues to grow. Disease is an ever-increasing risk as relief agencies rush to the aid of those who have been hurt or displaced.
Google’s Crisis Response team has provided satellite imagery and KML layers to assist relief efforts in past disasters, including the Haiti earthquake and recent Gulf of Mexico oil spill. In Pakistan, however, the cloud cover over the impacted areas has inhibited our ability to make this valuable content available. The Crisis Response team is looking to collect and aggregate imagery and user generated KML, or other map data, with the goal of making this content more accessible to both crisis responders and the general public. We’re hoping you can help. You can submit links to KML and map data via the following form. We’ll contact you if we are able to publish your content.
Cross-posting from Google Latlong
The recent flooding in Pakistan has been rated by the United Nations as the greatest humanitarian crisis that the UN has ever faced. It has already affected more people than the tsunami in Southeast Asia and the recent earthquake in Haiti.
UN spokesperson Maurizio Giuliano said: “This disaster is worse than the Southeast Asia tsunami, the 2005 Pakistan earthquake and the Haiti earthquake.”
Although the current 1,600 death represents a fraction of the 610,000 people killed in the three previous events, some 20  million people (6 million are children) have been impacted. We can help the living.
The UN estimated that over $1 billion will be needed to help Pakistan once the rains stop. The World Food Program said that 4 million people will need food supplies for three months after the rains stop.
We have  put together a partial list of credible and well known International charity organizations that prospective donors can support. For an extensive list of Relief organization please visit our Floods 2010 Wiki Page.  Additionally we  have partnered with OFF-ROAD PAKISTAN and BEHBUD ASSOCIATION in driving a grassroots relief drive in Sindh. For information click here.
