Indus Flood Relief – Himal Southasian Fund Collection Drive

The Sindh government has decided to move displaced people from Jacobabad to Karachi, Hyderabad and Jamshoro. The City District Government Karachi (local government) has identified four locations in Karachi where the displaced families will be brought in: Gaddap, Bin Qasim Town, Keamari, Toll Plaza.

Ghotki district

Sukkur district

Shikarpur district

Larkana district

Naushehro Feroz district

Dadu district

Nawabshah district

Hyderabad district

— Data courtesy The Institute of Social Movements, Pakistan.

•      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, cottonwool;
•      Surgical instruments: e.g needle holders, forceps, tweezers;
•      Suturing materials, Skin staples.

Who's doing what?

Following is a list of organisations working towards flood relief. None of them are affiliated with or endorsed by Himal Southasian.

The Provincial Disaster Management Authority (Pakistan government) needs atleast 40,000 bags of food items (including a bottle of drinking water) per day. The bags should not weigh more than 5 kg each. If these could be made available to the PDMA office in Sukkur, they can be airlifted to Kashmore and other areas where people are stranded.
 
Also, there is a need for medical assistance and boat transport facilities in upper Sindh, D. I .Khan and Swat.

Gender Interactive Alliance (GIA) activists are trying to arrange food and shelter for trans-sexual affectees of the floods. GIA head, Bindya Rana, has managed to make arrangements for 25 people from Sindh and Punjab at houses in her area, including her own, in Karachi. The group has food rations for three days and needs more. Contact Bindiya Rana at: +92-343-244-76-49.

The Orangi Pilot Project (OPP), founded by Akhtar Hameed Khan, and The institute for Social Movements, Pakistan (ISM-Pak) are organising medical relief initially in Ghotki, Kashmor, Shikarpur, Khairpur and Mirpurkhas. Milk for babies and children, fodder and medicines for livestock, and makeshift toilet curtains for women sitting on the roadsides, along bunds and in the open-air have been planned and will be supplied very soon. In the second phase, OPP and ISM-Pak, with the support of several local organisations, will plan relief operations in Dadu, Nuashehro, Nawabshah, Matiari, Jamshoro, Hyderabad, Tando Mohammad Khan and Thatta. Both organisations are also working as point teams for food supply to IDPs, along with many minor and major organisations , including Edhi foundation, which are engaged in relief and rescue work. Contact details: C-25, Data nagar, Qasimabad, Hyderabad-71000 / Phone: +92-22-265-49-05 / Fax: +92-22-265-46-05 / Mobile: +92-333-464-88-81.  Account details: The Institute for Social Movements Pakistan, NIB Bank (New Cloth Market Branch), account number 0103–8729492.

Medicines required

The American Pakistan Foundation (APF) is involved in a fundraising drive in the US in partnership with IRC, Relief International and Save the Children. Contact: akhan@americanpakistan.org

Kashf Foundation will be distributing relief packages to 10,000 households in the most affected areas. Given Kashf Foundation’s focus on provide sustainable livelihoods, the next phase of rehabilitation will involve support through access to financial services so that affected households can rebuild their income streams. To make a donation, contact CEO Roshaneh Zafar via her assistant at fatima.raja@kashf.org.

Thardeep Rural Development Program (TRDP) is providing food and water to homeless and desperate people in Dadu and Jamshoro, who have fled their homes due to the worst floods in over 80 years. An estimated 150,000 people have been affected in these two districts. More flooding
rains are expected, affecting all of Dadu and half of Jamshoro districts.

TRPD is working in the worst affected UCs of Dadu (Patt Sharif and Sayyal) and Jamshoro (Amri, Lakha, Sunn, Manjhand and Mnzurabad).

TRDP appeals to the public for cash donations to scale up critical humanitarian assistance. In Dadu and Jamshoro districts, young and old are running to safer grounds, leaving their homes at the mercy of flood waters. There is no place to go other than higher ground and in a few places, camps set up by the government. People are desperate. There is no shelter, no potable water, very little food and since there are no latrines or other sanitation, conditions are ripe for water-born diseases and respiratory infections – the two main killers of children under 5 years.

TRDP plans to help 5,000 families in the coming 2 months to meet their most immediate and critical needs for food and water and needs to raise Rs 100 million. Your contribution of Rs 20,000 will provide a family of 8 for two months: – Food and safe drinking water; – Plastic sheeting for temporary shelter (one time); – Hygiene kit; – Medicine and fodder for livestock.

Please make cheques payable to: Thardeep Rural Development Programme (TRDP Operational Account number: 10650 – 4, NBP Model Branch (1027), Clifton, Karachi).

For further information and to make in-kind contributions in bulk, please contact TRDP at telephone: +92-21-35868791 / 92 / 93.

Last updated on 13 October 2010.