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Yakja – Relief Efforts For Flood Effected People 2011
04 months ago
We did this together last year, 2010, in our own capacities as a group of friends. We named the group “Yakja”. As floods due to heavy rains have made their way into people’s lives once again this year, we have decided to re-group and begin our activities again to extend a helping hand to those effected by the heavy flooding.
YAKJA group has decided to start a Relief operation for affectees of unusual heavy moonsoon rains in Interior Sindh – The start of this week showed us how continuous downpour can paralyze a big city like Karachi – Imagine the devastation that has been caused by weeks of continuous rain and subsequent urban and rural flooding in different cities and villages around Badin, Naushero Feroz, Sanghar, Thatta etc.
Based on the experience of flood relief and rehabilitation operations done last year, we have geared up a volunteer team and are assessing the impact to carry out a targeted relief operation in coming weeks. Our aim is to ensure transparent delivery of Relief goods to our countrymen who look forward to our help in this hour of need.
Our first target is to provide relief items including Ration packs and Shelters to 500 families – We look forward to your generous contribution towards this cause. Our volunteer team will ensure on-ground delivery of all goods so that each penny of donation is spent towards the relief effort. You can pledge your donations to our team members by sending your contact details and pledge amount by email to yakjahh@gmail.com
Keep following us on www.yakja.org and Facebook group “YAKJA”
IDP’s Calling – Anyone for Relief efforts?
62 years ago
Last year, when a calamity hit Balochistan, we responded with FAST Relief. A well coordinated effort of us students at FAST Karachi. We raised quite a lot of money and made sure every penny of it was spent for the right purpose. We focused on medical aid and bought important medicine for daily use.
Now we have another humanitarian crisis knocking our door, that of the internally displaced persons (IDP’s). People who are leaving their villages and home-towns to avoid the military offiensive against Taliban militants. Are we ready to respond to this call? Will another FAST Relief rise in our absence, now that we have almost graduated?
Do we have people here to answer this call? Can we stand up, as responsible members of the society and do something again from Karachi and launch a well coordinated effort and provide some relief to the IDP’s?
Let us help the Pakistan Army restore peace to our Northern Areas. Let us stand together as a nation and prove that nobody is stronger than us.
FAST Relief [Update]: Aftershock rattles Pakistan as disease spreads among survivors
5A strong aftershock rattled southwestern Pakistan Saturday, as aid agencies warned that disease had begun to spread among tens of thousands of earthquake survivors waiting for relief supplies.
The 5.0-magnitude quake struck just before 6am in the mountainous province of Baluchistan, where a powerful pre-dawn tremor on Wednesday killed up to 300 people and left 70,000 people homeless.
There were no immediate reports of further casualties or damage as a result of the latest aftershock, the second strongest of more than 250 tremors to have shaken the region since Wednesday’s quake.
Aid has begun reaching devastated villages, but angry villagers in remote areas said they desperately needed shelter, with thousands of people whose mud-brick homes were flattened sleeping in the open in freezing temperatures. (more…)
FAST Relief
53 years ago
With one single objective in mind, we have started off on a mission to help the people of Baluchistan. The objective is to make them proud of being Pakistani, to provide relief to the displaced and injured people of the Province.
The deadly earthquake on the 29th of October has left over 300 people dead, several injured and around 15,000 people displaced. Unofficial sources say some 70,000 homes have been demolished.
Students are collecting donations at FAST Karachi, in any form. Material or cash.
If you’re abroad, we have made arrangements to collect the money through Western Union branches throughout Karachi. You can send the money in any of the following names:
- Syed Ammar Faheem
- Hina Aman
- Arsalan Tariq Mir
- Naveed Ahmed Taj
Do not forget to provide the MTCN number which is used for verification by the Western Union branches.
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