New York: Blanket Collection for Earthquake Victims

Dr. Saleem Mir, located at 132 Maple Street ( map ) in New York, is collecting blankets and warm coats for the victims of the recent South Asian earthquake , which has already claimed over 73,000 lives. For more information, please call 914-271-6606.


Source: CrotonBlog

Worldwide Vigil for Kashmir earthquake

On November 8, 2005 it will be the 1 month anniversary of the South Asian earthquake, 20 cities worldwide will hold a vigil to grieve for those who have lost their lives, provide hope for those who have survived but are living in deplorable conditions, and highlight to the world and the media that a lot more needs to be done as time is running out. Please join SAQUAKE.ORG to show your support and attend these events so our individual voices can be one loud message of hope and action. See a list of participating cities below and for full information about vigil locations and contacts please go to www.saquake.org

Participating cities include:

Amsterdam, Netherlands; Arcata, CA; Atlanta, GA; Bay Area, CA; Boston, MA; Canberra, Australia; Chicago, IL; Houston, TX; Indianapolis, IN; Minneapolis, MN; Montreal, Canada; Los Angeles, CA; Olympia, WA; Ottawa, Canada; New York, NY; Seattle, WA; San Diego, CA; Toronto, Canada; Troy, NY; Washington D.C.;

Vigil for the Victims and Survivors of the South Asian Earthquake:
To grieve for lives lost, provide hope to those still struggling to survive, draw the world's attention to the work that still needs to be done : Tuesday, November 8, 2005


Source: SAQuake via Wadias

Help needed in Saadpur village near Neelum river

From Sajjad Zaidi's blog:

I got this message from Aamir recently which I thought I should pass on. Saadpur village, with about 50-70 homes and a population of 600-900, about 300 of which are children, needs help. It is situated near the Neelum river that I mentioned earlier and is currently inaccessable by road. Someone has to go there physically and find a way to deliver food, tents and medical assistance. With winter coming, we only have a short time to save as many lives as possible so this is urgent.

Eid Mubarak

In the midst of the dust, we should not forget that today the moon has shown itself and that marks the end of the Holy month of Ramzan for the entire Muslim world (give or take a day or two) so I would like to take this opportunity to wish all of my readers and those who have really broken their backs trying to help Pakistan get back on its feet.

EID MUBARAK!

41 villages have still not been reached

According to an official military statement on Wednesday, forty-one earthquake-hit villages in the North West Frontier Province have not yet been reached since the October 8 earthquake due to their inaccessibility.

“The Pakistan army is providing supplies and relief goods to 41 villages through helicopters which have not physically accessed the villages so far,” it added.

These villages have been identified and troops would reach them within 24 hours, the army hoped. The statement, however, did not identify the villages nor did it give information about how many people were in need of medical treatment. The statement said the army “evacuated all serious casualties” from the areas of the NWFP where the earthquake wrecked havoc on October 8.


Source: Daily Times

Volunteers Needed in Rawalpindi

The following is from an email sent in to us:

We are a group of volunteers who are working in different hospitals of Rawalpindi. Our main aim is to help and serve the patients who are unattended (i.e. have no relatives). There are some security problems where in some cases patients have been kidnapped and molested. So we need volunteers who can assist whenever they have time, preferably in the night.

If you are living in Rawalpindi and are willing to help the earthquake victims then please contact Shahabz at 0301-5049321 and/or Humaira at 0300-5345534.

Blood Donations Needed In Islamabad Today

Blood donations are urgently needed for the earthquake victims, especially negatives. The blood camp is located at Sector H-8 and it has been set up by the Red Crescent Society. Please pass the word around.

All roads in Rawalakot, Bagh reopened

All the roads in Rawalakot and Bagh district have been reopened by the Pakistan Army Engineers. Most of the roads in Muzaffarabad district have also been reopened except for Neelum Valley and some portion of Muzzaffarabad-Chakothi road.

A Balley Bridge was successfully launched by Engineers troops to keep the communication open at Lamnian. A 28 km long road from Lipa to Rashian has also been reopened after an exhaustive ammount of work. Almost 20 km stretch of Gari Dupatta - Pathiali - Panjkot - Nauseri road has been reopened while the nine km of Bagh- Chhattar- Chakoti road out the total 25 km have also been cleared.

The 28 km long Thakot-Banna road has been reopened for all types of traffic. The work for reopening Kaghan-Balakot road continue in full swing. The 35 km long stretch of road has been repaired while the remaining five km will be opened shortly.


Source: GEO TV

Two points along LoC on Indian side will be ready by Nov 4

Two of the five centres along the Line of Control agreed to by India and Pakistan to coordinate the relief efforts to quake victims across divided Kashmir would be ready on the Indian side in a couple of days, a defence spokesman said Wednesday.

He said the two points - Rawalakot-Poonch and Tattapani-Mendhar will be ready from our side at Poonch and Medhar respectively by November four to enable people to ferry relief and reconstruction material for the victims from both sides of Kashmir.

In Mendhar area of Poonch district, the route is almost ready after clearing the mines adjacent Roshini Post facing Khanna Post from Azad Kashmir (AJK), the spokesman said adding some mines are to be cleared near Gulpur area facing Rawalkote in main town of Poonch in the district.


Source: OnlineNewsNet - Pakistan

Billboards as tent covers

In Muzaffarabad, Pakistan, recycled advertising billboards serve as rain covers on the tents of earthquake refugees:




Source: SFGate via PakQuake

How You Can Help Raise Awareness

Open Silicon Valley provides a list ways to get involved. They provide information about how to raise awareness with government, media, corporations and community. Go there and find a way to help.


Source: SouthAsiaEarthquake.org

Death toll in Asian quake jumps to 73,276

Pakistan's official earthquake death toll jumped by 16,000, and officials warned Wednesday that it is likely to rise further as relief supplies fail to reach thousands of victims stranded in remote parts of the Himalayas.

The announcement, which puts the official toll at 73,000, brings the central government figures closer to the number reported by local officials, who say the Oct. 8 quake killed at least 79,000 people in Pakistan. Read More.....


Source: CJAD 800 AM

When Winter Comes

More links and extracts lifted, with permission, from Uma Mahadevan-Dasgupta's Indian Writing

Here is

South Asia Earthquake Fact Sheet No 19, dated 31 October 2005:Close to 3 million homeless. According to Unicef, 17000 children died in the quake. Between 1.6 and 2.2 million children have been affected.

Here is Medicins Sans Frontieres' earthquake relief report

While
the treatment of wounds and fractures appears to be slightly
decreasing, MSF is worried that the health of thousands of homeless and
vulnerable people will deteriorate rapidly due to exposure and food
shortages. MSF teams are distributing winterized tents, blankets and
relief items such as cooking and hygiene kits, but at the moment,
limits on logistical capacity in the difficult mountainous terrain is
insufficient to get enough people adequate shelter before winter hits
in a few weeks time.

Here is an interview with the UN Humanitarian Area Coordinator:

Many
countries still believe that it is a classic natural disaster which in
most instances has two phases. One is search and rescue, the most
intensive first 96 hours after the disaster, then a little bit of
relief and then the second phase - reconstruction and rehabilitation.
Here because of the disaster and the magnitude of that, we see
dramatically increased vulnerability of people, which never happened
before as a result of a natural disaster, at least in recent years.
Nobody remembers this kind of situation...

I think if anyone
wants to deliver a lecture on natural disasters, this quake would be
the best example because everything that could have gone wrong, went
wrong. Any difficulty you can imagine is there. What makes it
especially difficult is the dramatic increase in vulnerability of large
groups of people living in a huge territory with very difficult access
and harsh climatic conditions...

Maybe part of the difficulty is
that the images do not allow you to understand the magnitude. If you
see a couple of villages completely destroyed - and you realise that
each village may have about 500 to 1,000 people - the human brain
probably does not calculate or doesn't multiply it to see the sheer
magnitude of that.

I wanted to tell you that I flew over the
Neelum Valley. I saw with my own eyes, flying sometimes very low and by
stopping. From 90 to 100 percent of housing was destroyed. And in most
instances, if not all, 100 percent of the population does not have
housing at all. Even if a building is still there, then it is
uninhabitable.

Q: With the onset of winter, what are primary concerns at this point?

A: Funding.

Q: What will happen if donors simply don't respond? Will you scale back your activities in any way?

A: Yes. We'll scale down and phase out.

If we haven't already given, please let's give what we can.

Please go here for Unicef's statement, appeal, pictures from the first tent school, and online donation facility.

This Diwali, this Eid, please help save the children.

Why Kashmir isn't getting the attention it needs - an opinion

Why was it that the desolation of coastal fisherfolk in Tamil Nadu had managed to sear through the thick wall of urban indifference, but here in Kashmir, we were still struggling?

Barkha Dutt in Hindustan Times. Read the article here.

[Link courtesy Indian Writing]

UNHCR considering leaving

Lack of funds delaying relief operations - At least one United Nations relief agency, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, is considering packing up and leaving if it doesn’t get the $30 million needed to manage relief camps in November.

“The organisation is operating on borrowed money from other relief agencies,” UNHCR Communications Manager Vivan Tan told Daily Times. She said UNHCR had utilised $15 million of the borrowed money and had received only $4 million out of the $30 million required. “We will try and pull through as long as possible, another two to three weeks, but after that we will have no other choice,” she added.

UNHCR is looking after the most vital area of relief, camp management, in earthquake-affected areas. “We see more and more people coming down from the hills for help but there is little we can offer them at the moment,” said the spokesperson. The UN has asked for around 600,000 tents to accommodate earthquake survivors but has received only 140,000 tents, with 200,000 more in the pipeline.

“Relief agencies have started working on different non-tent options to fight the cold weather, such as corrugated iron sheets, mud walls and plastic sheeting, but all plans are stuck because of the lack of funds,” said Tan. She said that Pakistani agencies were aware of the situation but not much could be done. “Our financial source is money committed against the UN flash appeal of $580 million.”

Meanwhile, the United Nations said that international aid agencies had received less than one quarter of the funding they need for emergency relief for Pakistan.


Source: AFP via Daily Times

Urgent need for winter tents in Pakistan

A second disaster is waiting to happen in Pakistan if victims of the Oct 8 earthquake do not have "winterised" tents as the weather freezes in. Peace Malaysia co-ordinator Datuk Mukhriz Mahathir said each RM380 tent could keep at least five people warm in the sub-zero temperatures expected in two to three weeks.

"I was in Balakot last week and saw that the current tents used by victims are totally inadequate. Even if you place a heater in a tent now, you won’t feel heat. Imagine what it would be when temperatures dip below zero. It would be absolutely frigid," Mukhriz said at Balai Berita here.

He feared the death toll of 60,000 after the Oct 8 earthquake would double if nothing was done soon to prepare for winter. On the tents, obtained from Dubai, Japan and Korea, he said nearly 500,000 were needed. The Airfreight Forwarders Association of Malaysia (AFAM) will be working with Peace Malaysia to provide free freight services to send aid from anywhere in Malaysia to Kuala Lumpur International Airport.

Alternatively, they can SMS a donation to the fund by typing GEMPA2 to donate RM2 and GEMPA5 to donate RM5. The public can also deposit cash directly into Bumiputra-Commerce Bank account number 14200-007719-055. Cheques can be made out to "Ehsan Mangsa Gempabumi Asia Selatan" and sent to B-13-D2, Plaza Mont Kiara, No 2 Jalan Kiara, 50480 Kuala Lumpur.


Source: New Staits Times

RISE-PAK

This site provides and gathers Demographic, Disaster, Access, and Assistance data and maps on all Earthquake Affected Villages to Help Coordinate Relief Efforts.

This information-sharing web portal compiles detailed demographic data, damage, access and relief updates at the village/town level to ensure that no one is overlooked in the relief efforts. The information is provided in a flexible and searchable format and is based on data from population statistics, satellites, geographical systems, and relief agencies, workers, and local officials. The portal is maintained by a consortium of experts from US and Pakistani Universities, the World Bank, NGOs, and the private sector, with support from the Government of Pakistan.

Please see RISE-PAK.

IR update

Aid distributed by IR and donations received at the end of last week.

Points of note: Mormon church has donated 20 containers of aid to IR. The aid will arrive in Pakistan by ship and includes medical equipment, blankets and emergency kits. The Sun newspaper has donated 85 winterised army tents to IR which have now arrived in Islamabad.

Friday 28 October
IR staff gave out 194 family tents in Muzaffarabad district and Neelum Valley. They also handed out 279 quilts, 108 blankets, 492 food packs and 111 plastic sheets.

In Dhirkot, IR aid workers distributed 200 tents, 358 quilts, 86 blankets, 173 water containers, 877 gift packs, 1,264 packets of milk, 994 bags of flour, 988 bottles of cooking oil and 992 food packs.

In Bagh, 294 tents were distributed to villagers.

In Rawalakot, 110 tents, 740 quilts, 368 kitchen sets, 480 food packs, 405 bags of flour, 110 plastic sheets and 190 blankets were distributed to survivors.

IR USA received a large donation of 20 containers of aid from the Church of Jesus Christ and the Latter Day Saints. The shipment contains blankets, medical equipment and emergency kits and will be sent by sea to Pakistan.

The Sun newspaper has donated 85 Hungarian winterised army tents to IR. The aid consignment left UK on Thursday 27 October.

IR South Africa is sending a 40 foot container of warm clothing to Pakistan. Another two containers, one containing blankets, the other containing flour, are due to leave South Africa in early November.

Quake Survivors Face Worsening Weather

Forecasts of rain showers and light snow on earthquake-hit regions of northern Pakistan on Tuesday compounded the misery of hundreds of thousands of people living in the open with little or no shelter.

Temperatures were forecast to dip to around 7 C in the shattered town of Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan-administered Kashmir, and as low as -12 C in the highest mountain villages, the Pakistan Meteorological Department reported. Snow was also expected in villages around 3,353 metres.

With the brutal Himalayan winter just weeks away, the relief effort is rushing to deliver tents, food and medicine to victims before villages are cut-off by snows and helicopter-grounding fog. The UN has warned that thousands more could die without adequate aid. Read More....


Source: Globe and Mail

Aftershock of 4.9 in Pakistan earlier today

Just a few minutes past 12 noon in Pakistan today (01/11/05), an aftershock with a magnitude of 4.9 and a depth of 10 Km ocurred about 50 miles East of Mingaora, 75 miles North of Islamabad and 100 miles South West of Gilgit in Kashmir (Coordinates: 34.73N 73.24E) . The Pakistan Net Department has issued a statement on their website informing that aftershocks are likely to continue for the next two weeks.


Source: USGS NEIC

PMA Needs Volunteers Urgently - North of Pakistan

Are you are interested in helping your fellow countrymen? But can’t go up north? Then this is your chance to make a BIG difference!

The PMA (Pakistan Medical Association) has brought a group of 15 patients to a well equipped
& state of the art hospital in Hub. They need volunteers to be with these patients & help them
remember how to smile.

Transport: Pick & Drop facility by PMA, from PMA house.

Cafeteria: Free food will be provided from a hygienic café in the hospital.

Resting/Study Rooms: Well furnished rooms with attached washrooms will be provided to the volunteers

Timing: 12 hourly shifts are schedule (might cut down to 6 hourly, if enough volunteers are ready to help.)

Nature of Work:
• If you are skilled then you can help the doctor carry out orders.
• Talking to the patients & inquire their needs in the new city.

Don't forget to take your books with you, cause you’ll have ample of time to study/read there.
Please contact the PMA house at 2251159.


Source: EseeJee

Google Earth Dynamic overlay for Pakistan

Thanks to Anne Wright & Randy Sargent from the Global Connection team who have been working on the GEarth overlay of affected areas & sent us more good news via email:

A Pakistan dynamic overlay containing 1-meter imagery and maps for
* Muzaffarabad
* Abbottabad
* Mansehra
* Murree

is available at
http://jaga.gc.cs.cmu.edu/rapid/pakistan/

Contents:
* 10 maps from DLR / Space Imaging, available from
http://www.zki.caf.dlr.de/

The dynamic overlay is now public!
(Please fee free to redistribute the overlay and images)

Army sets up help lines to redress complaints about relief

The Pakistan Army has set up Help Lines at Mansehra, Battagram, Balakot, Shinkiari, Garhi Habibullah, Besham, Khaki and Chattar Plain areas of NWFP. These Help Lines will work round the clock and complaints, problems regarding relief operations will be recorded for immediate action to the staff on duty.

Following are the phone numbers of the Help Lines:

Mansehra (0997) 305781, 301656, 305271.
Batagram (0997) 312083, 311019
Balakot (0997) 501041,501383
Shinkiari (0997) 530016
Garhi Habibullah (0997)451884, 451695
Bisham (0996) 400594
Khaki (0997) 351378
Chattar Plain (0997) 333011


Source: APP

Gifts for the children of Garri Habibullah and Balakot

A team of Karachi Metbloggers have taken an initiative to provide toys, clothes and entertainment stuff to the kids in earthquake affected areas. They are making “care packages” for these children. One package will cater one child and each package will contain:

• one toy (doll, car, bat/ball, football, etc)
• one candy/chocolate pack
• one suit for eid
• one eid card

These packages will hopefully reach them before eid. The contributions can be made in the form of the above mentioned items. For dropping off the goods contact hafsa.adil@lycos.com or by simply posting a comment on Karachi Metblog with a valid email address.

Source: PakQuake

EME starts installing generators in tent villages

Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (EME) of Pakistan Army has started installation of generators for provision of electricity to the survivors living in tent villages of the quake hit areas of NWFP. EME is working round the clock on installation of 55 generators at various tent villages established by Pakistan Army at Banna, Kaghan and Gabori valley. Solar enrgy system is also being installed in tent villages of Hassa and Bassain of Balakot. Army on Monday setup several advance supply bases in the worst hit areas of Kaghan, Sirren and Allai valleys while Army Engineers cleared Balakot-Mangli, Thakot-Darband, Thakot-Banna, Darband-Thakot and Dubair-Khwar roads. Work on Balakot-Naran road is in progress from both the ends. As many as 98 sorties were flown by army aviation to airlift food stuffs, water and medicines.


Source: Dawn

Volunteers Needed for Relief Trip to Pehal (Near Mallot)

A private relief team is leaving for Pehal (near Mallot) at 9:00 PM tonight (Oct. 31).

Those interested in accompanying the team should call Akmal Javed on 0321 4699066, or one of the following:

Mujeeb Qayyum - 0300 8433539
Shaoib Tareen - Cell 03008402265
Abdul Raouf - 0321 4698103

Source: Lahore Metblogs

Indian army: Mines across Kashmir border to be cleared

Military officials from India and Pakistan are slated to hold talks on the clearing of tens of thousands of mines along the de facto border of disputedKashmir to facilitate earthquake relief, a top army official said. V.K. Singh, army chief of staff who heads anti-insurgency operations in Indian Kashmir, told AFP Monday that commanders from both sides would attend the meeting at a point along the border called the Line of Control (LoC).

Anti-personnel and anti-tank mines were among those that needed to be cleared after their deployment across the border regions in Kashmir, claimed by both India and Pakistan. The two sides also agreed on the weekend that relief supplies, with prior information and acceptance, could be sent across the LoC and handed over to local authorities at the crossing points.


Source: AFP

The Relief Tent Drive Team Issues an Inspiring Update

Thank you so much for your support and contributions! We have far surpassed our expectations with the grassroots efforts of the Relief Tent Drive! We are temporarily not accepting donations while we prepare our accounts to handle additional contributions. Because of the overwhelming response to this project, we need to enhance our donation accepting methods and are currently working towards partnering with an established and registered organization.

We will be back soon and will inform you when we start accepting donations again. In the mean time, you should be proud that your contributions have helped us:

- To purchase a total of 101 tents in Pakistan, of which 30 tents are on their way and 50 tents are being manufactured in Pakistan;
- To deliver 21 tents to villages that were under resourced or had yet to receive any aid.

We will continue to delivery the tents we have ordered with your funds, so you can rest assured that 100% of your donations have gone towards providing shelter. An Accounting Page is now available to ensure our efforts are transparent and clear to our donors and to the public...please visit this page for more information. Also, we have updated our distribution page with a map of areas delivered to, please see here.

Source: Relief Tent Drive

Warm Coats for Pakistan

The American Alpine Club is leading a coat drive for victims of the earthquake in Pakistan and Kashmir, which has killed more than 50,000 people and left millions homeless, just as winter is approaching. Climbers and skiers almost always have extra coats lying around that seldom get used—here's how you can do something useful with them. Send your surplus fleece and down to the American Alpine Club, 710 10th St., Suite 100, Golden, CO 80401. The AAC will bundle the coats for shipment to Pakistan, where the Alpine Club of Pakistan will ensure they reach needy people in the mountains. The AAC also has established a Pakistan Relief Fund, which already has raised thousands of dollars for aid to mountain villages. Make a contribution online at the AAC website.


Source: The Mountain World

LDRF Update: Volunteers Needed - North of Pakistan

The following is an urgent call for volunteers from an LDRG aid worker - Tree Elf:

The LUMS Disaster Relief Fund (LDRF) does not have volunteers who can go up north. We need you to volunteer yourself; your time, your energy. Contact Dr. Sohaib Khan ( sohaib[at]lums[dot]edu[dot]pk ) and Yasir Hashmi for volunteering. We need people to go up there, help organize stuff, coordinate, distribute. Help out in general. Do This! Give Some Of Your Time!

Additionally an important note for all donors from the LDRF team:

Don't send heavy trucks up north: there are massive traffic jams on the way. Also, don't send goods individually: we are not working alone. Contact Edhi, Red Crescent, Islamic Relief, SUNGI, Omar Asghar Khan Foundation, NRSP or the armed forces. There is an urgent need for large waterproof tents, blankets and bedding. These should be sent only up to Islamabad, where the armed forces are in charge of redistribution.

Eid Gifts to kids in EarthQuake affected areas

NLC in collaboration with PTV are collecting Eid gift packs that will be distributed to the children in earthquake affected areas. They have setup 3 collection points in Karachi at Expo Center (Gulshan-e-Iqbal), Board Office (North Nazimabad) and Park Towers. You can contribute with toys, books and other kid stuff. Please make a packet and put a message on it, if you want to. You can drop the packets until Sunday evening.


Source: PakQuake

Manchester native helping young quake victims in Pakistan

When a devastating earthquake struck northern Pakistan Oct. 8, Manchester native Susan Hirshberg put her organizational skills to work to help the victims.The Islamabad resident helped set up a center there where children stable enough to leave hospitals, but requiring medical care around the clock, can stay with a parent or other close relative.

The pending winter weather is an additional potential disaster in waiting. Already there are many cases of tetanus here and some have started dying of exposure, she said. Everyone is scrambling to help, but still not enough people have tents or proper clothing.

Hirshberg's mother, Louise, a Maine resident, is recruiting people to knit hats, mittens, scarves and sweaters for the homeless children. She can be reached at: louisehir@comcast.net.


Source: New Hampshire Union Leader

Kashmir Border Opened to Aid Quake Victims

In an unprecedented move, India and Pakistan agreed earlier today to open up the heavily militarized frontier in the disputed Kashmir region to aid. LOC will be opened at 5 crossings. The U.N. humanitarian coordinator in the quake zone, Rashid Khalikov, also welcomed the Pakistan-India accord, calling it "a good step in this disastrous condition. It will open an opportunity to extend humanitarian help to the affected people in the far-flung villages alongside the Line of Control.

The border openings begin Nov. 7. Relief goods can be sent in either direction and handed over to local authorities at the crossings, the joint statement said. Civilians will be allowed to cross on foot, with priority given to families divided by the border. Procedures for crossing the border would be similar to those implemented earlier this year when the historic bus service between the two capitals of disputed Kashmir, Muzaffarabad and Srinagar, was restarted. People wanting to cross would have to apply for a permit from government officials on either side to verify their identities. The five crossings would be allowed at the Pakistani-Indian border towns of Nauseri-Teethwal, Chakothi-Uri, Hajipur-Uri, Rawalakot-Poonch, and Tattapani-Mendhar. Read More ....


Source: China Post via Earthquake Exodus

Update #1- Situational Report from DMA in Pakistan

Danish Muslim Aid (DMA), a Copenhagen based group of Muslims is spearheading all the activities in this regard. It was acknowledged that the dilapidated terrain might be a hurdle to any such efforts, yet DMA noted that the people in areas away from the main highways are the ones in most despair and should be reached out before the harsh winter strikes.

Regarding the ongoing activities, it was mentioned that a team of fifteen Pakistani and Danish doctors has been in the earthquake hit areas of Balakot and Muzaffarabad for the past ten days. These doctors are coordinating with different camp hospitals of Pakistan Army and different other NGOs.

Syed Abid Gilani, the local coordinator for DMA relief efforts in Pakistan also indicated that serious efforts are needed to reach areas where jeeps and mules only possible way to travel and a lot of time and effort is required to accomplish the task are the. As winter approaches, these areas will become even more difficult to reach, hence now is the time to help the devastated people. DMA has also established a tent village in Rawal Town, Islamabad which is supporting 200 people from Kashmir for the past one week. Local youth has also got actively involved in the arrangements of this tent village. Read More ....


Source: DMA