South Asia Quake Appeal

Yet, another catastrophe hits the Asian reagion. Yet again, people of the world need to stand together and help their fellow humans to get thru this diaster.

The toll from the powerful earthquake below the Hindu Kush mountains in Pakistan that sent shockwaves across south Asia and reduced cities and villages to rubble is now put at at least 30,000.

Most of the casualties from the quake, which measured 7.6 on the Richter scale, were from Pakistan. One state minister estimated 30,000 people were killed in Pakistani Kashmir alone. In Indian Kashmir more than 600 were reported dead.

At least 50,000 were reported injured in Saturday’s quake. The United Nations estimated more than 2.5 million people were in need of shelter.

The quake flattened dozens of villages. It killed farmers, students, soldiers and schoolchildren, and triggered landslides that blocked rescuers from reaching many areas where bodies lay in the streets.

Please do whatever you can and in whatever way you can.

Some of the NGOs, where you can donate -

World Vision www.worldvision.com.

CARE Australia www.careaustralia.org

Fred Hollows Foundation www.hollows.org

Oxfam  www.oxfam.org.au

Red Cross www.redcross.org

To know more info and for volunteering work visit these blogs -

South Asia Quake Help

Reality Cafe – Appeal by Raven

Chapati Mystery – Setting up Pay Pal account for donations soon.

UPDATE

DesiPundit has put out a blog quake appeal to help raise donations for those who are in need of help. Kindly please make a contribution as soon as possible, since time is not on our side.

Here is more information received via e-mail from Jammu and Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society-

ATHROT – Relief Action Programme for the Earthquake Victims

We need your donations in cash and kind to support the relief programme for: -

Relief and Rehabilitation of Uri victims

Emergency relief programme for Tangdar victims

Blood Donation for Azad Kashmir victims

Where and what you can give -

• Donations in Cash may be deposited at Jammu and Kashmir Bank, Polo view Branch, on account of JKYF account number SB 1169

• Clothes, blankets, tents, food items and other donations in kind may be handed over to our volunteers at ATHROT collection counter at Lal Chowk, Srinagar

• Donations will also be directly accepted at our camps at Salamabad, Uri and Tangdar

ATHROT is a collective initiative supported by Jammu and Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society, Jammu and Kashmir Yateem Foundation, Help Poor Voluntary Trust, Friends of Humanity, Student’s Helpline, Kashmiri Women’s Initiative for Peace and Disarmament, Apna Ghar, Youth for Humanity, Bar Association Budgam and students from Kashmir University and different Colleges and members from Business community.

ATHROT programme solicits support and cooperation from all concerned organisations and individuals to put up a united, organised, concerted and sustained resistance to the present calamity.

Please feel free to contact us for further details on the following numbers:

91-194- 2482820

91-9419013553

91-194-2310145

91-9419046026

91-9419009950

Jammu and Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society C/O Mr. Parvez Imroz The Bund, Amira Kadal, Srinagar Jammu and Kashmir, 190001 India.