Support Pakistan's Disaster Affected Communities

Dear CDRS Family, 

CDRS is proudly moving forward into 2013 as a battle-tested and highly decorated implementing field organization of Humanitarian disaster relief (emergency and long term) and sole creator / designer / developer of The "Sustainable Healthcare Initiatives Now Empowering" conceptual model (S.H.I.N.E.) with THE SAME goals we've always been dedicated to ever since my field team and I began working together during the 2005 Pakistan earthquake relief mission, with THE SAME minimum spending and maximum effectiveness that it made its name and reputation on (which NO Similar Organization can even dream to match unless their CEOs and core staff are willing to sleep on floors, own zero personal property, work 24/7 on the lowest salaries you'll find in the non-profit World and NEVER travel above economy class), and with THE SAME amazing outcomes and positive impacts on disaster affected citizens and communities and THE SAME independently verified financial transparency that has kept wonderful donors just like you happy for years and years with the satisfaction of knowing they made a well spent contribution to a noble cause that is still serving and prospering despite facing so many epic challenges over the years. We have survived whatever has been thrown at us and only grown stronger, and we pledge to continue our hearts-and-minds winning, effective, meaningful, creative, competent, compassionate and comprehensive humanitarian interventions in some of the poorest and toughest areas of Pakistan through the following active and developing collaborations:

Current Partners and Ongoing Projects
1) CDRS Mother/Child Health Center, (at Begum Effendi Hospital in Bagh Dheri, Swat, KPK)
2) Rehabilitation Response UK (Special Patients Orthopedic Surgeries and partnership to supply top notch facilities like Blood Bank, Thalassemia Center and Operation Theatre to Begum Effendi Hospital in Bagh Dheri, Swat, KPK) 
3) UM Healthcare Trust (Telemedicine Project, Pakistan Development Data Map and UM Trust Hospital in Zahidabad, Mardan, KPK)
4) HUM Network Foundation (Reconstruction of Homes destroyed by flood in Mir Wah, Mirpurkhas, Sindh) 
5) School Health & Music Programs in Pehli Kiran Schools, Mashal Schools, Qasim Orangi School, Lettuce B. Kids, Fakhr-e-Imdad Foundation, Green Grammar School (Pakistan-wide)
6) Special Patients Project (Pakistan-wide)
7) Jinnah Hospital and Allama Iqbal Medical College (Medicine Donations and volunteer medical camp program)
8) Sindh Medical College (CDRS student chapter)
9) CDRS Volunteer Program (Pakistan-wide)

Partnerships beginning work between now and February 31, 2013
1) The Earthquake Reconstruction & Rehabilitation Authority of Pakistan (ERRA) (Hospital Reconstruction Project, New Balakot City, KPK)
2) Karachi Relief Trust (Mobile Medical Team, flood affected areas of Interior Sindh)
3) Hisaar Foundation (Kitchen Gardening Project, Swat and Karachi)
4) IDSP and UK Association of Medical Aid Pakistan (Special Patients Project and support to poor medical students, Balouchistan)
5) AJK Health Department, Pakistan Army (Basic Health Unit and Mother/Child Health Support, Leepa Valley, AJK at The Line of Control) 

Please note: New collaborations are being developed with fine organizations such as United Pakistan, The Association of Pakistani Physicians and Surgeons UK, The British Pakistan Foundation and The Citizens Foundation and will be announced as soon as they are finalized before our next Global Giving report is due!! 

Please note that CDRS has six cleared and first class independent program and financial audits (1 for every year of operation), has cleared and first class financial and project audits for disaster relief and healthcare rehabilitation projects funded by UNICEF, Direct Relief International and The International Development & Relief Foundation (IDRF) and The Swiss Government and has passed Global Giving's rigorous due diligence process in each of the 5 years they've been our key fiscal sponsor in the U.S. 

Thanks for all your generous support over the past 7 years- we have proven that we deserve it, and we humbly request and look forward to your generous support again in 2013 :)

And be on the lookout for the new CDRS Online Store at Global Giving's Gifts For Good Coming Soon, where you can support our projects AND choose from great items like crafts, jewelry, children's clothing, shawls, decorative candles and original art (much of it created by ladies and children affected by disaster who will directly benefit from your purchase), as well as great music, t-shirts and other promotional items from CDRS / Sonic Peacemakers Artist Ambassadors like Sanam Marvi, Sohaib Alikhan, Farhan Saeed, Arieb Azhar, Strings, Abrar Ul Haq, Lanny Cordola, Quratulain Balouch and many more! 

Best Regards,
Todd Shea
www.cdrspakistan.org 

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At the end of October 2011, as CDRS was concentrating its efforts on deploying its Mobile medical team in the flood affected areas of Mirpurkhas and The Thar Desert in Sindh, CDRS ended its support of the government RHC (Rural Health Center) in Chikar due to new disasters being a priority for CDRS and our donors. CDRS served the People of Chikar Union Council and its surrounding areas with great dedication ever since the earthquake, however it was time for a change as the area had long since normalized from the earthquake disaster of 2005: houses and villages were fully rebuilt, proper roads to Muzaffarabad had been repaired, the people of the area had fully recovered from the earthquake, and for many years they enjoyed excellent free healthcare at the CDRS sponsored RHC. The community health insurance program that CDRS had established in early 2009 to give the people of Chikar an avenue of ensuring a long term, stable and effective health facility for years to come had collected more than 1 million rupees (over $10,000) from patients, however, the vision for the program was never fully realized because only those citizens who needed regular treatment and medicines for chronic ailments would regularly support the program with their monthly payments. Everyone else just continued to expect excellent free medical services without contributing, as though CDRS and its donors could just continue forever supporting 100% of their healthcare needs. With other disasters in the World and Pakistan, You (our donors) wanted your money to go for current missions in the flood areas, and in Haiti and Japan. Utilizing donor money in the best way is always my first priority, so we suspended our operations with an offer to the people of Chikar that we would be happy to come back and formulate a new plan with them and the government if they would be willing to help fund the project. Simultaneously, a new Prime Minister and government had come into power in AJK, so it took a few months before the new officials had settled into their new jobs. When I was finally able to meet the new Secretary of Health for AJK, I asked him about Chikar and he said that they were increasing the government's budget for medicines, supplies and doctor's salaries and so he wouldn't need us in Chikar as much as some areas that were more remote and currently a higher priority for assistance by charitable organizations such as CDRS. He then requested for CDRS to start a project in Leepa Valley, an area of around 60,000 people that is nestled between a 10,000 foot mountain and the disputed border with India (The Line of Control) and only had a small Pakistan Army medical post. CDRS has always coordinated directly with the AJK government on where to operate, so I told him we would support the small facility with some medicines and then, after spending some time their to assess the best way to help, we would consider starting a project there. We have now seen and understood the needs of the area for ourselves and are ready to begin fundraising for a project to support the healthcare needs of families in this very harsh, poor and remote place.

As our mission has evolved and grown over the years, CDRS has built a great reputation for 1) deploying mobile medical teams and volunteers, providing logistical support to doctors and medical students coming in from all over the World during the earthquake, IDP and flood disasters, and 2) providing long term rehabilitation to damaged or destroyed healthcare systems (AJK, Swat, Charsadda, Shikarpur), but we also have distinguished ourselves in implementing successful programs for school health and special patients. We plan to greatly expand these programs in the coming months, and are very thankful for the support and faith you have given us which allows us to do such amazing, award winning Humanitarian work. Please see the attached CDRS Newsletter to read about these expanded programs which are changing the lives of children and families for the better, one person at a time. 

• CDRS JULY 2012 NEWSLETTER (PDF)