Earthquake Relief Information
On Saturday, 8th October a 7.6-magnitude earthquake hit the northern parts of Pakistan and India. With the death toll crossing the 73,000 mark, and with over 3,000,000 people left cold, injured, hungry and homeless, we need all the help we can get. Many countries and organizations have pledged and sent all kinds of aid, but your individual help is needed to make the difference. Please help in any way that you can.
There are four things you can do: (1) donate money, (2) donate goods, (3) volunteer, and (4) donate blood. Each of these has its own sub-page, with many options to choose from within each page. The most urgently required items are listed below. If you know of any initiative not listed here, please e-mail its details to earthquake@insanityworks.org and we'll add it to this page. Thanks. Also, earthquake information sources are listed below.
Note: The Government of Pakistan's information helplines to report all incidents of earthquake damage are: (+92-51) 920 9485, 920 9486 and 920 9489.
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| Relief Information System for Earthquakes (RISE) |
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The RISE-Pak website gathers and provides demographic, disaster, access, and assistance data and maps on all earthquake affected villages (over 4,500 of them!) to help coordinate relief efforts. Please go here if you have or need any information about any villages in the affected areas. You can submit information online or by using their downloadable forms. |
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| Donate Goods |
The North Face & KER Gear Drop Drive [outdated]
The North Face and Kashmir Earthquake Relief are air dropping winter gear across NWFP and AJK from November 18-23. They are running a gear donation drive (10% off on all North Face gear) across the US. For details visit KER's gear drop page. |
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| Donate Blood |
Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS)
Donate blood to PIMS' blood bank. Most earthquake victims have been admitted there and in Rawalpindi General Hospital. |
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| Volunteer |
Rozan
After the completion of its succesful Psychosocial First Aid component (training & counseling volunteers, helping & counseling survivors), Rozan's Project Umeed (Psychosocial Rehabilitation for Earthquake Survivors) has moved into long-haul mode. For details, visit Rozan's website.
- Contact Rozan at: (+92-51)
221 5364-65;
House 68-B, Street 25, F-10/1, Islamabad
- Note: these children are severely traumatized and must be dealt with accordingly. Do not attempt to "treat" them without advice / training from professional psychologists who specialize in trauma.
- Details on other Rozan programmes.
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Islamic Aid
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| Earthquake Sources of Information |
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| Locate a Lost Relative |
Family News Network of the International Committee of the Red Cross
If you are looking for a relative you have lost in the South Asian earthquake go to this site. Here you can register yourself (i.e. post your current location) or the relative you are looking for. Keep checking the list for updates.
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Missing Persons Information Exchange
If you are looking for relatives you have lost in the South Asian earthquake, this site will help you find them.
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Earthquake Survivors in Lahore Hospitals
Volunteers in Lahore have created a blog to list earthquake survivors admitted as patients into various hospitals in Lahore.
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Acknowledgement & End-of-Active-Maintenance Notice
The immediate crisis has passed. What efforts could have been made to help the people affected by the earthquake were made to the best of our abilities -- "our" meaning everyone who helped out in the relief efforts which, to my knowledge, was every one I know and everyone I know of. And so we're in it for the long haul now.
Nadia and I would like to thank everyone who helped make this site a useful reference guide. When it was at its most useful, it was getting over 12,000 hits per day; even now it gets an average of almost 900 hits per day. That's pretty impressive. So, thank you one and all. Since we can't possible thank everyone in person, we won't. We would, however, like to acknowledge the mother and daughter team of Ilona and Mehrunnisa Yusuf for their invaluable effort in justifying the creation of this site: they provided a lot of the data listed here and they sent a staggering number of people to view it. An extra-special thanks to them. We would also like to thank the Pakistan Development Gateway Foundation (PDGF) for helping make this site possible.
We will no longer be actively maintaining this section of insanityWORKS.org. Most of the information on this site, however, is still relevant, correct and useful. Outdated data has been marked as such. We've left that in there because it serves a testimony to the efforts made by people at the time of crisis and urgent national need.
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Nadia Niaz and Ameel Zia Khan
25 February, 2006
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