GlobalGiving.org: Support Mother-Child Health for 40,000 Kashmiris

Mother-Child Health - Kashmiri Project Update

Seema I. Hassan & Todd Shea — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 02:05:00 GMT

We would like to wish a very Happy New Year to Global Giving and all our supporters, and to thank each one of you for your unstinting support over the years.

Since 2006, donations from generous supporters (either directly to us or through Global Giving, institutions, and through some community contribution via the self- sustainable health scheme) have enabled CDRS / SHINE Humanity to work in collaboration with the local government of AJK to restructure and scale up the rudimentary health care system that was devastated by the massive earthquake of 2005 and serve a catchment area population of 200,000 residents.

Over this time we have managed over 400,000 patients, mostly women and children, and established a primary care center with urgent care and referral services, ambulance service, a maternity center, dental health services and a well-stocked pharmacy. We have also acquired the necessary equipments, materials and training to set up a laboratory to enhance the scope of medical services provided in the near future.

Besides these direct medical activities we have been involved in supporting health and hygiene education programs in the government and private schools in the area, public health education programs and health awareness fairs, a micro-nutrients program to deal with the inherent nutritional problems and a program to benefit special patients who were suffering from major health problems and needed support with issues such as school fees, clothing, medicines, physical therapy or major medical procedures.

Our activities in Azad Jammu Kashmir [AJK] during October and November 2011 focused on providing on-going primary care through physician consultations and provision of medicines. 650 patients were seen in three health facilities in AJK during this time period. Chest infections, diarrhea and skin conditions were some of the diseases treated along with care provided for chronic diseases such as diabetes and hypertension. 5 babies were delivered at the facility in Chikar in October and ante-natal and post-natal care was provided to these women. Health and hygiene education continued to be promoted as in the past.

In December, after more than six years of comprehensive, compassionate and competent service to the People of AJK, CDRS temporarily suspended day-to-day operations at the Chikar Rural Health Center due to a significant drop in donor funds for AJK since the more immediate flood emergencies in other parts of Pakistan. This drop in funding, along with the community’s failure to pick up the slack by providing internal funding for the Community Based Self Sustainable health Insurance project, resulted in the necessity to make a new partnership agreement with the community and newly elected government health officials of AJK. Once we study the AJK Government’s new health budget for 2012 and re-asses our mission to determine the best and most effective way to utilize the funds we have to continue supporting the neediest and most deserving patients in the community, we will re-start a more streamlined program in February 2012 and keep you informed of our progress.

We would like to reaffirm our commitment to improving the lives of the Kashmiri people and look forward to your continued support in this regard. Once again, we are deeply grateful for all your contributions and support over the years.

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Lives Saved Following GI Outbreak

Abaid ur-Rahman — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 17:42:36 GMT

The children we serve

On October 19, with the help of GlobalGiving.org and the Safer World Fund, all donations to the Commnity Healthcare for 40,000 Kashmiris willl be matched at 80 cents to every dollar. There are over $100,000 in matching funds available starting at 12:01 am EDT. The matching will continue until 11:59pm EDT or until matching funds run out. Please let friends and family share this opportunity with friends and family. Remember, only online donations (credit card or paypal) are eligible for matching.

As always, thank you for your support in spreading this news about YOUR agency. Meanwhile, SHINE Humanity, along with its field partner, Comprehensive Disaster Response Services(CDRS) continued providing services to Kashmiri communities in Pakistan. Here is a summary of our activity for the month of September:

Chikar: During the month of September our teams were able to treat 1,832 patients in Chikar. They also spent on medicines, staff salaries, hospital repair, ambulance repair, incentives for government doctors, utilities and management.

Team members were able to treat a number of patients when an outbreak of gastro-intestinal epidemic hit a village. These patients came with severe dehydration and diarrhea from Danna and Andra Seri, Sulmia. There was not any other facility nearby to respond quickly and abruptly, without our presence in Chikar, these patients would not have made it to the DHQ Hattian Bala. Our staff quickly and efficiently responded to the epidemic and dealt with the situation with commitment.

We also followed up with a Emergency Response Team dispatched to the village to treat severe dehydrated patients who were in danger. These patients were were provided proper medical care for three days and were kept under observation.

Namhother: The team carried out health checks and provided medicines to the needy. A total of 155 patients were treated.

Gundi Gran: Our team provided staff salaries and medicines to 290 patients.

Junaid is one of our special patients

Preventive services keep her out of harm's way

Flash Appeal: Double your Donation on 9/11!

Laila Karamally — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 04:37:27 GMT

First Baby Born

In honor of each precious life lost on 9/11, help save an innocent child...

Donate Now and Watch Your Donation Double

On the 10th anniversary of 9/11, SHINE Humanity is one of eight agencies selected to win up to $15,000. Please read this letter we received from our team on the ground.

Sep 6th, 2011

"As-salam alaikum (Peace be on You), I am very grateful to inform you that our medical team delivered a baby tonight, Sep 6th, 2011. The condition of the Mother was critical but our team took on the challenge and finally after two hours of great hard work, the medical team of doctors, nurses and lady health workers met success. We saved the baby and the mother! After remaining under observation for two hours, they were discharged.

We distributed sweets in the hospital. The father of baby and their other family members were very thankful to SHINE Humanity and CDRS.

Today is a great day of my life. My team saved two lives. I am proud of my team and very thankful to the management I work with for providing medical facilities to the needy communities who are affected by the War on Terror and natural disasters and cannot even pay for their food.

Best Regards,
Usman Ali Shah, Project Manager
Baghdhere, Swat"

SHINE Humanity has assisted over 250,000 disaster victims with medical and humanitarian needs. Seventy-five percent of them have been women and children. We also support sustainable healthcare projects, led by local community members, in post-disaster Pakistan, Haiti and Japan.

In honor of the thousands of precious lives lost on 9/11 and the darkness that that tragedy cast in all our hearts, donate to SHINE Humanity and help us give the gift of health and life to victims of natural disasters, war and violence. Give now, and as part of the limited time Safer World Foundation (set up to honor the victims of 9/11) Challenge, watch your donation double!

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Meet Saadia

Roya Yasharpour — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 21:23:13 GMT

4 year old Sadia with her mother Nuzhat

Meet Nuzhat, a Mother and Resident of Chikar, Pakistan- We Spoke to her Through Skype

“Sadia was four. One day, she came down with a fever, and as it climbed higher over the period of the next few days, she fainted. My husband and I were convinced that we were about to lose our little girl. Fortunately, a family member contacted the SHINE Humanity-sponsored Chikar Rural Healthcare Center. Sadia was admitted and after receiving treatment, she quickly returned to good health. Without their help, who knows what would have happened.”

Sadia’s was lucky. She could have become one of the thousands of children under five who die each day in Pakistan because of lack of access to basic healthcare. Her mother Nuzhat expressed gratitude to SHINE Humanity donors who made treatment for her daughter possible through their funds. In response to a question regarding living conditions of the surrounding population, Nuzhat explained “most of us struggle to afford food. Besides this hospital, there is nowhere we can go for treatment. ”

SHINE Humanity is glad that Sadia is thriving today and wish Nuzhat and her family, good health and best wishes!

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Important Field Update & Sonic Peacemakers Appeal

Todd Shea — Sun, 08 May 2011 06:47:52 GMT

The Sonic Peacemakers

Greetings Dear Friends and Supporters,

I'm heading to back to Japan in the last week of May to deliver funds and check on the relief efforts we've been supporting with our partners Global Giving and EMPACT Northwest. I'll be traveling six hours north of Tokyo to Ishinomaki with a group of Japanese students I've been working with since the disaster who have been delivering food, water, hygiene items, household items and medical supplies to shelters and providing manpower to the cleanup efforts. I'll send a detailed update with photos in early June.

In Haiti, we're providing financial assistance to the efforts of EMAPCT Northwest to bring in medical volunteers to work with the only trauma ambulance service in Port-au-Prince.

In Pakistan, our flood relief efforts have transitioned into the long term phase with our continued support of pediatric health facilities in Shikarpur, Sindh (Civil Hospital Pediatric Ward), Charsadda, KPK (The new Ashraf Medical Complex Pediatric Health Center) and Swat, KPK (The new Bagh Deri Hospital). We are committed to helping these facilities achieve self sustainability while helping the community recover from the disaster, especially the most adversely affected children such a Shabana, an adorable six year old girl whose surgery on severe burn scars is scheduled for May 23 at Shifa International Hospital. She'll be out of the hospital just in time to move into the new home we're building for her and her fifteen family members who lost their old home in the flood. We are collaborating with NCHD to provide basic health camps to flood affected villages in Thatta, Sindh.

In Chikar, Azad Kashmir, we've struggled to get the majority of the community to financially contribute a nominal monthly fee to our community health insurance initiative, so we're bringing in new partners, new ideas, new facilities and new capabilities to nudge the people of the area towards understanding the necessity of supporting their local government health facility so it can run as an effective public/private partnership for generations and not remain totally dependent on outside charitable contributions. Our new data management / paperless patient records / telemedicine project is going operational this month in Charsadda and Chikar with technical support and guidance from our partners UM Healthcare. Our 2010 financial audit is underway (a bit late in getting started due to our focus on the flood mission) and we are confident in the same successful result as the independent audits of each of the previous four years we've been in operation as a registered non-profit social welfare society.

I am grateful for your generous support of the above missions. I humbly request you to take a moment to read the information below, enjoy the videos and consider supporting another very important initiative that will be aimed at using musical collaborations to show Americans the wonderful people of Pakistan I've come to know in over five years of service to Pakistan. The overwhelming majority of Pakistani are rarely ever seen or represented in the western media, including 80 million innocent children who were either toddlers, infants or not even born yet on 9/11. They represent almost half of Pakistan's population and they need all of us to remember them. Sonic Peacemakers hopes you will join us in bringing them music, happiness, peace, love, compassion, health, education and opportunity. They are Pakistan's future and a part of our collective destiny. We can ensure that destiny is a bright one as we move beyond borders and eventually bring Sonic Peacemakers to all nations, opening up hearts and minds through the power of music and shared humanity.

Todd Shea
Founder
CDRS (Comprehensive Disaster Response Services), Shine Humanity and Sonic Peacemakers

SONIC PEACEMAKERS APPEAL

When the Pakistan Flood Disaster began last summer, The Sonic Peacemakers "Peace Through Music" project was put on hold. The relief efforts kept co-founders Todd Shea and Lanny Cordola busy for months, with Todd leading the disaster response of CDRS / SHINE HUMANITY and Lanny visiting Pakistan twice to help deliver supplies, compassion, smiles, music and gifts for children with fellow Sonic Peacemakers Atif Aslam and Noori.

Though we were able to produce several videos and teasers in 2010 (listed below), we need new funding to finish a documentary film and the first album, a collection of songs entitled "The Dreamer Awakes" with Atif Aslam and other prominent Pakistani musicians, ex-members of Guns 'n' Roses, The Beach Boys and other renowned western musicians. This epic collaboration is inspired by the works of Karachi-based poet Beo Rana Zafar and hopes to give a voice to the poverty stricken children of Pakistan.

The first Sonic Peacemakers documentary film will highlight Lanny Cordola's amazing journeys to Pakistan, where he creates music with awesome and diverse musicians and artists, tours disaster affected areas, experiences Pakistan's amazing cultural richness, meets with everyday people in remote villages and big cities, and discovers the wonderful people of Pakistan who are too often unseen and misunderstood by the outside world. And perhaps most importantly, Lanny and Sonic Peacemakers will show the world Pakistan's warm, friendly, loving, inquisitive, beautiful and brilliant children who are Pakistan's hope and future.

Sonic Peacemakers future plans include produce recordings and concerts in an ongoing series of musical collaborations, starting with Pakistani and American musicians and eventually bringing together musicians from other countries to build bridges of peace, erase misconceptions and support health, education and development projects that help families and children who need them most.

This spiritual, social and musical initiative has the potential to transform hate into love and darkness into light, ignorance into empowerment. There is so much we can accomplish together by making this project a reality.

To make a tax-deductible contribution to Sonic Peacemakers, please visit:
http://www.globalgiving.org/projects/peace-through-music/

Or send a check made out to Sonic Peacemakers to:
Britt Lake, Global Giving, 1023 15th Street, NW, 12th Floor, Washington, DC 20005

Thanks for your time, we hope you’ll join us as a Sonic Peacemakers Ambassador!

In Love and Light,
Sonic Peacemakers

VIDEO CLIPS

1) Glimpses of "The Dreamer Awakes" An Upcoming Sonic Peacemakers Project Featuring Pakistani and American musicians, including Atif Aslam & ex-members of Guns 'n' Roses
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ntm8dlD6H-Q&feature=related

2) Pakistan (I Have A Dream) Atif Aslam and Lanny Cordola
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ak1welvCLLo&feature=related

3) We Will Rise Again - A Tribute to Pakistan's Flood Victims (Atif Aslam, Lanny Cordola and Todd Shea) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UpjTiIeBsg

4) Lanny Cordola Interview about Sonic Peacemakers at NAMM Show in Los Angeles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRiU16Yl6vw&feature=related

5) Clips of Sonic Peacemakers Live Concert In Islamabad (Noori, Atif Aslam, Todd Shea)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oq-brkLhbKM

6) Dil Dil Pakistan Live - Atif Aslam & Todd Shea
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lHAHb2w1ZU&feature=related

Matt Sorum of GnR with Lanny Cordola and Todd Shea

Todd Shea with Pakistan's Future

Shabana

Gilby, Matt, Atif, Sarmad, Lanny & Sameer

Mother's Day & Beyond, Empower Earthquake Victims

Roya Yasharpour — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 22:54:59 GMT

Utilizing their health insurance membership

Dear SHINE Humanity Supporter:

Each day in Pakistan, thirty nine women die of childbirth complications and 1,440 children under the age of 5 die because of lack of access to basic health care. Did you know that for only $20 a month - the cost of one dinner - SHINE Humanity can provide access to basic healthcare for 10 patients?

SHINE Humanity depends on your generous support to make sure that mothers and children living in poverty, whose lives have been further devastated by earthquakes and floods, continue to have access to basic healthcare and medicine, each month. Help us lower the maternal-child death rates by continuing access to basic medical care and medicine by signing up for a recurring donation! A recurring donation is easy to set up and automatically goes to your credit card each month so you can help provide a steady income for SHINE Humanity without having to worry about making separate donations each month.

By signing up for a recurring donation now, you can help us get an additional $1,500 through Global Giving's Recurring Donation Campaign! We need at least ten new recurring donations before the end of the day Friday, May 20 EDT in order to be eligible for additional grants between $500 and $1500.

Sign up for a recurring donation here: http://www.globalgiving.org/projects/mother-child-health-in-disaster-affected-pakistan. Be sure to click on the "monthly recurring" option below the large orange "donate" button. Read instructions for setting up a recurring donation here.

Would you give up just one dinner a month to help women and children in need? Thank you for your support this Mother’s Day and continuing throughout the year! With your help, SHINE Humanity is Lighting the way forward………

Best wishes,

Laila Karamally

Chief Executive Officer

Draining abscess- covered by monthly insurance

Waiting for well-child visit

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Volunteers Changed After Visiting Pakistan

Nausheen Dadabhoy — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 05:49:59 GMT

"Seeing things like that changes you..."

Dr. Aaliya Ali

Dr. Aaliya Ali, a pediatrician from Whittier, California and Dr. Sara Khan an internist at San Antonio Hospital in California traveled to Shikarpur, Sindh eight weeks after the floods began in Pakistan to volunteer at SHINE Humanity’s pediatric facility in Shikarpur District Hospital.

Dr Aaliya Ali: I think that Sara and I were good combination I am a pediatrician and she is an internist, which is an adult doctor. We traveled to a different village every day, and saw anywhere from 200-300 people. I focused on the children, and Sara focused on their mothers. About one-third of our patients were children. What we encountered most was extreme malnutrition in women and children. Obviously for young children a mother’s health is tied to the child’s. It was difficult to see these malnourished mothers trying to care for their children.

In the pediatric ward in Shikarpur, I saw children who had extreme dehydration, permanent liver failure and meningitis. In the United States, these children would be in the Intensive Care Unit. SHINE Humanity is their only lifeline. So many of the diseases we saw could have been prevented if the patients had received proper primary care. I saw one year-old twins who were severely dehydrated and anemic. Due to the help that we were able to provide, they went home with their mother. I saw two children die while I was there was well. It was very tragic, because if those children had been brought to a hospital sooner they might have survived.

SHINE is doing a wonderful job to educate the people in these remote areas about proper hygiene. For instance, many of the women rub cow manure on their baby’s umbilical cord, because they think that it will cause it to fall off faster. A little education will help to remove these practices that are so harmful to children.

I do not see mother/child health getting any better. Most of the people in these areas are farmers and their main staple was rice, but the rice fields won’t dry out until March or April, so this year’s harvest is lost. The next few months will be difficult.

Dr. Sara Khan: I had previously traveled to Haiti with SHINE Humanity, so I was not new to working in an area devastated by a natural disaster. On the other hand going to Pakistan was much more emotional for me, because I grew up in Pakistan. These people who were already very poor, had lost the very little they had. I was happy to help in whatever way I could, and I have to say the SHINE Humanity support team that we worked with which included volunteers, a pharmacist, and a paramedic, were some of the best people I’ve ever worked with.

The majority of our patients were children, because they were the ones that were hardest hit by the floods. The adults we saw had chronic problems. They had probably not received proper medical care throughout their lives, so for them just to have access to doctors was a big deal.

One of the cases that affected me most was this young woman who had a chronic medical problem. I went back to the basics. I figured out that this woman needed blood, but we couldn’t find the right blood. The SHINE Humanity team rallied together and donated their own blood. They saved that woman’s life, and helping her made my trip worthwhile.

This experience was real eye opener. You go to a place where people don’t have enough to eat, and there is a whole generation of children who are malnourished. You can tell their parents what the problem is, but there is nothing they can do to help their own children. Seeing things like that changes you.

Annual Fundraiser

Supporting our Heal A Heart Campaign

Sunday March 27, 2011 at 12:30 PM

Hyatt Regency Hotel

1107 Jamboree Rd.

Newport Beach, CA 92660

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Giving is Selfish

Nausheen Dadabhoy — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 00:40:21 GMT

"In a Way Giving is Selfish"

SHINE Humanity volunteer Sweta Chawla talks about her experiences volunteering in Shikarpur Sindh.

"It was very heartbreaking to see little children less than a year old with minor health problems that had gotten to the point that they were life threatening. I saw four children die in one week. No matter what your thoughts are about a country politically I don't think it's not fair for children to have to pay the price for that."

To hear more about her trip, and see the moving photographs please watch this VIDEO.

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2011 Begins On A Positive Note!

Nausheen Dadabhoy — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 06:12:28 GMT

2011 Begins On A Positive Note!

SHINE Humanity volunteer has a "positive experience" visiting flood affectees

Dr. Ayesha Simjee, an opthamologist from Southern California, has volunteered her services in over 25 countries. She recently returned from Pakistan where she provided basic emergency eye care to the Pakistan flood victims. Although she was saddened by much of what she saw she found the overall experience to be a positive one. She recounts details of her trip below.

Surgical Eye Expedition in Santa Barbara California has arranged most of my trips to perform eye surgeries abroad. They do not support natural disaster relief work, but because of my 20 year association with them, they did provide me with many supplies for my trip including; antibiotics, eye drops and other basic emergency eye care supplies. SHINE Humanity was the receiving organization that provided logistical support for me in Pakistan. Many of the other supplies I needed I acquired on my own

It was quite a struggle for me to get to Pakistan. I arrived four days passed my scheduled arrival date, because it was difficult for me to attain a visa.

When I finally arrived in Islamabad I was met by a SHINE Humanity agent. We had little time to waste, so we immediately set off on a three hour drive to the SHINE Humanity facility in Charsadda, KPK.

In Charsadda SHINE Humanity connected me with the non-profit Sarhad Rural Support Program (SRSP). I was warmly received by their agent Khalid Jaan. I stayed with his family during the three days that I worked in Charsadda. After that I went to six villages. We visited a different village every morning. I saw 70 to 100 patients every day. Most of the patients had eye infections due to contamination from the flood waters. Most infections were treatable, but if those infections had been neglected, then it would have had a negative impact on the patient's vision.

I also saw patients with Glaucoma and Cataracts. These problems were not related to the floods, but it was clear to me that most of these people had never had any eye care prior to my visit.

On of the challenges for me was the language barrier. Most of the locals spoke Pashtu or Punjabi. SRSP helped me by always providing me with a social worker/interpreter who accompanied me on all my trips.

Because of the volume of patients that I was seeing every day I quickly ran out of supplies, so I bought local supplies. I was shocked to see that medicine that costs $40 here in the U.S. only costs $.50 in Pakistan.

It was very sad to see so much devastation, and what it has done to the people of Pakistan, but over all I had a positive experience. I was so well received by all of the organizations that hosted me, by the social workers that assisted me, and Khaled Jaan and his family. Most of all I knew that the patients appreciated my help.

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Happy New Year from SHINE Humanity

Nausheen Dadabhoy — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 20:07:05 GMT

Celebrating New Beginnings!!

Click HERE to watch a New Year greeting from SHINE Humanity to all of our supporters.

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New Year Greeting from SHINE Humanity

New Rural Healthcare Center in Chikar Up and Running

Nausheen Dadabhoy — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 23:16:48 GMT

Make a $30 and receive a mug

We are pleased to announce that the new Chikar Rural Healthcare Center is open, and serving the needs of the local community. The new center has two buildings - the first with over 7,000 sq ft includes multiple exam rooms, an ultrasound room, a dental facility, isolation facilities for patients with Tuberculosis and Leprosy as well as a government pharmacy. The second building is of similar size and includes three inpatient wards, a delivery room and a minor operating theatre. Both Buildings are wheelchair accessible.

Thanks to your contributions, our efforts to build a sustainable healthcare program for Kashmiris affected by the 2005 earthquake have been so successful that we are implementing a similar program for victims of the 2010 floods. Close to 20 million men, women and children in Pakistan - who were displaced after the massive flooding in August - are now returning to their homes to find lands water-logged and houses, schools and businesses destroyed. Poor mother and child health is a major concern in Pakistan, and will now worsen due to poor living conditions and inadequate food supplies.

SHINE Humanity’s strategy is to revitalize healthcare infrastructure in disaster-affected areas. We work with credible partners to rehabilitate facilities, train local medical staff, put in place efficient management systems, and build sustainable healthcare initiatives. SHINE Humanity is running the pediatric ward of a district hospital in Shikarpur (Sindh), a mother-child center in Charsadda, and supporting similar initiatives in flood-affected areas of Swat and Neelum Valley.

This Holiday Season, become a donor with SHINE Humanity, and your contribution will advance mother-child health in disaster-affected Pakistan. Donate now, and you have the option of sending a token of our appreciation to family and friends. Make a $30 donation and receive a mug. Make a $50 donation and receive a pair of scented candles. Learn more by visiting us on Global Giving at http://goto.gg/7004 .

Make a $50 donation and receive 2 scented candles

New Rural Health Center

Chikar Center Reception

Chikar Center Patient Ward

Chikar Center Pharmacy

Chikar Center Dental Unit

Chikar Center Delivery Room

Chikar Center Ambulance

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A very special message for Dads and Grads!

Laila Karamally — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 05:31:29 GMT

A very special message for Dads and Grads!

Having trouble thinking of the ideal father’s day gift or graduation gift? Well, look no further..... Todd Shea, Operations Director of SHINE and Executive Director of CDRS has written and composed an original single entitled “Little Feet”, a heart-tugging composition in which a father reminisces his child’s early years. Gift this single to the special individual in your life by making a donation on-line and mention “Little Feet” in the promotion code. We will send the CD to the mailing address you have on file unless you send us alternate instructions.

Remember, your contribution will help us continue serving “little angels with those little feet” in the countries where we work.

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June Update

Laila Karamally — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 05:24:29 GMT

Dear Friends and supporters, So much has happened since the last time you heard from us, we barely know where to begin. First and foremost, Comprehensive Disaster Response Services (CDRS) is now an affiliate of Sustainable Healthcare Initiatives Now Empowering Humanity (SHINE HUMANITY). SHINE HUMANITY is a US-registered nonprofit, and is leading the effort to raise funding and awareness for CDRS activities in Pakistan and all across the world. Please direct your inquiries and support to SHINE HUMANITY. To visit us on the web, please go to www.shinehumanity.org.

Haiti Mission Wrap-up With the help of your generous support, SHINE HUMANITY/CDRS was able to concluded a very successful and productive mission in Haiti. Overall, the multi-agency effort that we were an integral part of was able to render help to over 15,000 patients and deployed over 250 doctors and medical personnel from the United States. A total of $213,000 was raised and spent over the eight week period. Of this a close to $100,00 came from individual donors, while the balance was raised through institutional sources. Ninety-seven per cent of the project expenses were spent on direct program cost, two per cent on capital expenditure and one per cent on administrative costs.

Sustainable Healthcare Project Update With the end of the Haiti mission, we have shifted our focus back to Pakistan. Overall, CDRS has now served over 400,000 patients since the agency first launched the earthquake relief clinics in March 2006, at the cost of $1.80 per patient. The central lynchpin of our operations is a Community Healthcare Empowerment Project, a community funded health insurance initiative that would give subscribers access to emergency and primary care at a minimal contribution of $0.30 per per person per month. The long-term goal is to reduce dependency on outside funding and give the community control over its own healthcare destiny.

So far, close to 10,000 individuals have enrolled or renewed in the program since inception in Fall 2009. A team of five community mobilizers are visiting village by village to explain the project to the 55,000 Kashmiris living in 64 villages covered in the pilot phase.

While community funding now covers a substantial part of the monthly operating budget, we still need your help to cover the on-going shortfall, as well as to support families too poor to contribute; as well as to help set up a radiology and laboratory project and unroll a high-tech suite to our programs and services ( i.e. e-records, telemedicine, data-mapping, etc.) Our goal is to raise $340,000 annually to underwrite the cost of field operations and support a presence in the US, and we need your help to get us there.

Grow your Money Mark your calendars for Wed, June 16th. On June 16, GlobalGiving.org is matching at 50% all online donations up to $1,000 per donor per project! In addition to the 50% match, GlobalGiving is offering a $1,000 bonus to the project that raises the most funds that day and a $1,000 bonus to the project that receives donations from the most individual donors! Terms and Conditions: • Matching is applied up to $1,000 per donor per project on June 16, 2010 between 12:00 am and 11:59 pm EST (GMT-4) until matching funds run out • There are $70,000 in available matching funds • There is no fee applied to matching funds • Projects must be approved and live on the GlobalGiving.org website by June 15th Only online donations (credit card or paypal) are eligible for matching Donations made on www.globalgiving.co.uk are NOT eligible for matching

To learn more about our on-going events and fundraisers or to invite Todd Shea to speak in your city, community center, college or place of worship, please contact us at info@shinehumanity.org.

SHINE HUMANITY in the News Todd Shea was a recent guest at University of Washington, South Asia Center. Here is a report on the event:

PAKISTAN-BASED “GO-TO GUY FOR DISASTER RELIEF” VISITS UW By Ethan Casey “Todd Shea, who responded to the devastating 2005 earthquake in mountainous northern Pakistan and now runs a hospital there through his organization SHINE Humanity, spoke on May 25 in the Walker Ames Room in Kane Hall as part of the Henry M. Jackson School’s Global Focus series, and met with the UW Pakistani Students Association. His visit was hosted by the South Asia Center at the Jackson School. Shea's promising career as a singer-songwriter was interrupted by the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. In New York to play at the famous CBGB nightclub – a gig that never happened – instead he emptied his musical equipment from his van, drove to Chelsea Piers, and asked how he could help.” To read more, go to http://jsis.washington.edu/soasia/wsar2010/sheavisit.shtml

On Saturday, June 19th, 2010, Todd will be a speaker at the Pakistan American Public Affairs Foundation (PAKPAC Foundation) conference on “Understanding Radicalization and De-radicalization” in Hartford, Connecticut.

Also, look out for the Washingtonian Magazine (www.washingtonian.com) July issue - it features Todd Shea and the efforts of the team behind SHINE HUMANITY.

Till next time!

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CDRS Pakistan Update

Todd Shea — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 19:13:18 GMT

In 2009, CDRS successfully managed 82,822 patient contacts. These include 57,706 patients managed at CDRS managed Rural Health Centers and Basic Health Units in remote areas of District Muzaffarabad and Poonch, 29,922 patients from our 3 month emergency response to the Swat IDP Crisis, emergency medical camps treating acute victims of water borne disease outbreaks, emergency response to coastal Sindh to provide medical services to Monsoon Victims, Eye Camps, Dental Camps, School Health Programs (in Muzaffarabad and with Developments In Literacy (DIL) in rural areas around Rawalpindi) and deployment of mobile medical teams to very remote and underserved villages. 75% of our patients were females and children. (Please refer to the two attached supporting documents for further details of patient contact and diagnosis statistics) In 4 years of CDRS operations since the end of the emergency phase of operations for the October 8, 2005 earthquake, CDRS has successfully managed 350,151 patient contacts at a cost of $630,779.09, or $1.80 per patient contact. We have kept costs down because we live amongst the people, buy most of our supplies and food locally and rent local jeeps to go where we need to go. This provides economic benefit to the communities we serve, in addition to the healthcare benefit, therefore we have become an important and trusted part of the community. We don't spend the funds you generously donate on expensive vehicles and fancy offices, CDRS is a no frills charitable oganization that concentrates on being effective at providing competent and compassionate primary and emergency healthcare services to our beneficiaries in rural, remote and moutainous villages in Pakistan. We are loved and respected and wanted by the communities we serve, so we have no need to spend a dime of your money on security. The next update will focus on the successful start of our new CDRS Community Based Self Sustainable Healthcare Project. This project is a social health insurance mechanism which partners the local community with the local government health ministry at the facility level to internally raise the funding needed to build and sustain an effective health facility for decades to come. The idea is to make CDRS irrelevant to the provision of primary healthcare in these areas as soon as possible. We want to create an effective system that can sustain itself even if CDRS must leave due to lack of funding available due the recent downturn in the world economy or need to respond to other disasters. Our implementation of this project is beginning to see very positive results. The data trends are both heartening and energizing, and will be included with the next report. Until then, Thanks for supporting our efforts! God Bless You and Yours, Todd Shea CDRS / SHINE PAKISTAN (Comprehensive Disaster Response Services AND Sustainable Healthcare Intiatives Now Empowering Pakistan) www.ShineHumanity.org

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New Photos/Videos of CDRS AJK Health Operations

Todd Shea — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:59:36 GMT

The vigorous pursuit of our Community Based Self Sustainable Healthcare Project in Chikar & Sulmia Union Councils has been slowed by our need to respond to the IDP emergency in NWFP. As soon the situation stabilizes, CDRS staff in Chikar will again direct its full energies toward the success of the Community Based Self Sustainable Healthcare Project. CDRS Health Facilities in AJK continue to run smoothly in spite of the lesser number of staff due to the Swat emergency, as remaining staff are working double shifts to meet the commnity's needs.

Photo Update (Dental Health, Mental Health, Special Patient Junaid's first day of school, Community Health Project Meetings, Animal Welfare Programs: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cdrs_spring_2009/

CDRS in NY Times (Article & Video): http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/25/world/asia/25kashmir.html?_r=1

CDRS in Dawn.com (Clumn by Ethan Casey, author of "Alive And Well In Pakistan": http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/in-paper-magazine/books-and-authors/give-them-hope-for-gods-sake

CDRS VIDEO New CDRS Video - A Report To The CDRS Family Of Supporters (15:33) Full Version (Contains extra footage, extended interviews, more on CDRS history, current operations and future goals) Caution: This version contains a few scenes of grave injury from the emergency relief and rescue phase of The October 2005 South Asia Earthquake in order provide viewers with a brief but stark visual to show the level of devastation that responders rushed to in order to give aid and comfort to those most harmed. http://www.mefeedia.com/entry/cdrs-comprehensive-disaster-relief-services-pakistan/14724653 New CDRS Video - A Report To The CDRS Family Of Supporters (6:20) Abbreviated Version http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-V7HSOA_lFQ (Same script edited for time-sensitive presentations at fundraisers and speaking events) Note: Scenes of graphic injury and devastation have been left out

February 18 CDRS Field Report

Todd Shea — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 11:37:23 GMT

It's been quite a busy and eventful beginning to 2009 for CDRS. In 2008, the five CDRS managed health facilities operating in Pakistan Administered Kashmir's District Muzaffarabad (and one in District Poonch) successfully managed 97,728 patient contacts, and CDRS launched a new program designed to gradually build an effective, internally funded and self-sustainable healthcare system for the poor and rural communities we serve.

74% of CDRS patients last year were Females (38%) and children 14 and under (36%). Please see 2008 Diagnosis and Patient Contact Statistical Reports, downloadable in this update

To read about The CDRS Community Based Self Sustainability Healthcare Project, go to: http://cdrspakistan.org/CDRSCommunityHealthProjectNov2008.doc

Logistical Challenges: Road Blockages due to landslides and snow have been even more of a problem this winter than last. The weather conditions have presented many difficulties in transporting patients and delivering medicines to the health facilities we serve in the very mountainous and remote areas. Even though CDRS pre-positions as many supplies and medicines as possible, shortages occur when the roads are blocked for extended periods. Electricity is normally out for 15-20 hours a day during the winter, and completely out during weather events. We have generators and backup fuel but couldn't use our generators for several days in January when fuel stores were exhausted and the combination of landslides and a district-wide fuel shortage stopped fuel deliveries for two weeks. Communications became difficult to impossible when phone lines, dial-up internet and cell phone towers were out of service for days at a time. In spite of these difficulties, our medical staff continued to treat patients and most essential medicines were available in our pharmacy.

One Of The Many CDRS Success Stories: One young patient by the name of Junaid has responded miraculously to our interventions. In October of last year, Junaid's Father came to me asking for help, saying his 11 year old son had been paralyzed after being buried in the rubble of his home during the October 2005 earthquake. I brought Dr. Rizwan Shabir with me to Junaid's home to examine him. Though he had sustained a head injury and endured bacterial meningitis, Dr. Shabir determined that Junaid was not paralyzed but desperately needed an extensive program of physical therapy. After more than three months of intensive physical therapy, home schooling (CDRS pays for a teacher to visit Junaid 6 days a week, three hours per day) and special leg braces, I am happy to report that Junaid is now able to walk with support, has become much more limber and mobile in his joints, is able to go to the bathroom instead of wearing a diaper. Junaid has also made significant progress with his schoolwork and we hope to send him to school as soon as he's ready. CDRS purchased new clothes for Junaid, as well as toys, books, school supplies and learning games for him and his 4 brothers and sisters. I wish that Junaid's Father had brought him to me sooner, but the bottom line is that a beautiful child who was living as a prisoner in his own body, emotionally withdrawn, immobile and in pain has really come back to life and is on his way to fulfilling his potential to be a happy and productive member of his community.

Other January/February 2009 News Of Note:

CDRS received a plaque of honor from The Muzaffarabad Citizens Forum, The Pakistan Red Crescent and Rise, commemorating three years of services to the people of District Muzaffarabad. The award, the fourth that CDRS has received for its work in the earthquake affected areas, was presented by Ms. Anne Aarnes, Mission Director for USAID Pakistan.

Weather conditions have slowed the implementation of The CDRS Community Based Self Sustainability Healthcare Project, however, we still managed to create 40 village health committees while also concentrating efforts on educating the people of Chikar Union Council about the importance of the plan to the community's future.

CDRS presented another in a series of Health Fairs for children at our main facility in Chikar. The health fairs involve staff and children performing entertaining skits that educate children and families on important health and hygiene practices. CDRS Staff pulled off another great event with an awesome example of the teamwork that has made CDRS such a treasured and trusted part of the community. Thankfully, the weather was beautiful on the day of the event, which was attended by about three hundred people. Adam B. Ellick, a reporter from the New York Times, also attended and filmed the event. A New York Times news article and short documentary film about CDRS will be coming out March.

My staff and I hope you will continue to support CDRS and its efforts to use our long term response to the earthquake as an opportunity to build an effective healthcare system to serve the people of Pakistan. Brand new hospital buildings don't help anyone unless the system inside those buildings is working properly- at this point, I prefer to have a shack with a good doctor, staff, working ambulance, supplies, medicines and operational budget that have a beautiful, empty, ineffective and insulting brand new hospital building funded by a compassionate and well meaning but ultimately shortchanged donor.

Please feel free to send your comments and feedback about this report.

Best regards, Todd

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CDRS 2007 Activity Report

Todd Shea — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 11:07:28 GMT

Please see attached 4 page report of CDRS 2007 programs and activities and 2008 plans

Also, check out the CDRS 2007 video and please send the link to your contacts who may be interested in learning abou CDRS!

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CDRS 2007 Video (10 Minutes)

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2007 CDRS Activities Report (DOC)

2007 Report To Donors

Todd Shea — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 09:04:46 GMT

CDRS Spent 152,891.49 US Dollars in 2007 and successfully managed 104,659 patients. That's an average cost of $1.43 per patient contact!

CDRS treated an average of 610 emergency patients per month in 2007.

72% of all CDRS patients in 2007 were Females 15 and older and Children 14 and younger.

CDRS is performing Primary and Emergency healthcare services at 8 facilities and implementing programs for Winter Support of remote villages at the Line Of Control, Cholera Outbreak Response, Mental Health, Dental Health, School Health and Deployment of Volunteers in the moutainous and remote areas of Pakistan Administered Kashmir.

Please help CDRS expand its successful mission in 2008! Your donations and your compassion are delivered directly to the most needy villages.

The families CDRS serves are very grateful to Americans for providing them and their children with the healthcare they need and deserve. Remember, a nation can't prosper and reach its full potential if its children aren't healthy. Support CDRS today!!!

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August 2007 Major Activities & Project video

Todd Shea — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 22:35:29 GMT

CDRS Earthquake Relief Healthcare Rehabilitation Project

1) CDRS continued a long term volunteer program for dentists and dental students with Dr. Ayyaz Ali Khan (National Oral Health Coordinator, WHO, and Head of the Dept. of Dentistry, Shaikh Zayed Medical Complex, Lahore, Pakistan) and Dr. Rubina Mumtaz of The Islamic Medical and Dental University of Islamabad.

2) The two Government Health Facilities that CDRS supports (Chikar RHC and Rahim Kot BHU) and the two private CDRS Health Facilities (Riyat and Katkair Medical Centers) managed 11,382 patient contacts from in the 5 weeks from July 28 to August 31.

3) Volunteers from America (Azra Khalfan and Samia Khan) were very effective and had very good time working with CDRS. They were very impressed by our way of treating patients.

4) In the 5 weeks between July 28 and August 31, the average patient contact decreased about 214 patients per week at Chikar RHC from 1,308 per week (for the 4 weeks in July) to 1,093 per week (for the 5 weeks in August.

5) Because of the expected upcoming cholera outbreak, and per the request of the WHO and DHO, a cholera tent at CDRS was erected by CDRS staff and volunteers.

6) Due to the Cholera outbreak in the Danna area, District Health Officer Doctor Mehmood and WHO desperately needed staff for this Area. International Rescue Committee (IRC) staff had left those areas a month ago due to a dispute with IRC Management, so CDRS provided one Doctor, Dispenser and OT technician to Danna to deal with the outbreak.

7) Due to the Cholera outbreak in Rahim Kot, an additional CDRS doctor is working at the Rahim Kot Basic Health Unit (BHU). The BHU has managed more than 200 cholera patients. Due to the quick response of CDRS staff, no Cholera deaths have been reported in these areas

8) CDRS received a donation of a full laboratory's worth of equipment from Merlin and completed the installation of this lab. This lab is helping the local community by providing Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, Malaria, Blood sugar, Urinalysis, Hemoglobin and Erythrocyete Sedimentation Rate tests that were heretofore only available in Muzaffarabad.

9) CDRS organized a walk against Measles with the Health Department. School children and community leaders joined this walk. After the walk, RHC and CDRS staff delivered a speech about this dangerous Disease.

We are happy to provide you with our regular project reports. Now you can also watch our video. Click on the link below to get a deeper and visual understanding of our project activities and a glimpse of the beneficiaries we work with. Thanks for your support!

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Video showing CDRS work and beneficiaries

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CDRS Medical Relief and Rehabilitation Efforts

Todd Shea — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 23:11:26 GMT

The following photo galleries and documents highlight the continued success of CDRS and its efforts to provide much needed medical services to communities in the earthquake affected areas of Kashmir.

Go to www.cdrspakistan.org for more 2007 operational reports

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