Shelter for Victims of South Asian Earthquake

Here are some pictures showing the damage to structures and infrastructure. This is the common picture in all parts of the earth quake affected areas. Most towns are now ghost towns and slowly tent cities are cropping up all around the collapsed structures. I read a report yesterday that said that there was not one surviving or habitable structure left in the city of Muzzafarabad, which housed over 300,000 people. Many organizations have tried to convince people living in the highlands to move to more accessible areas, but people prefer to stay with their land rather than move down. This is of course posing a major challenge for relief efforts for several thousands of people are still not accessible. I heard yesterday from a volunteer who had been working with the an hospital in Abbotabad (a city in the Manshera area, the other badly affected region) that due to non availability of anti tetanus shots a 3 ½ girl had died of tetanus in the hospital, there must be hundreds of such cases. However, the good news is that anti tetanus medicines have arrived in Pakistan today through UNICEF.

Anyway we continue our efforts and over the past few weeks have provided medicines, blankets, relief goods etc and are now sending more medical supplies to camps and tents and blankets as well.