GHANAIA Asian Earthquake Relief
More than 80,000 people are feared dead, many still lying in rubble, thousands injured and millions made homeless after a severe earthquake hit areas of Pakistan, India and Afghanistan early on 8 October.
The epicentre of the quake, which measured 7.6 on the Richter scale, was some 90 kilometres north of Pakistan’s capital city Islamabad. Several remote villages have been completely reduced to rubble and countless others have been severey damaged. Aid agencies are facing difficulty getting to the remotest areas by road and air transport is in short supply. The cold weather in the highlands and the imminent winter has made the survivors vulnerable to the elements.
UNITED SIKHS volunteers assisted by nearby communities have arrived at the scene of the disaster, to provide high-altitude tents, woollen blankets and other supplies and to run langgar ( community kitchen) camps on the Pakistani and Indian side of the affected areas.
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UNITED SIKHS has pledged £100,000 to help the disaster relief effort – but we need your support to fulfil this pledge to help tens of thousands of people whose homes and livelihoods have been devastated by the quake.
Please give immediately so that we can get aid to where it is needed NOW.
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Mike Sandhu of Tracy said he and his family were upset when a powerful earthquake hit their homeland in northern India a month ago. But even as late as last week, they heard about remote villages where…November 6, 2005
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The great Indian relief rush has finally begun. Nearly a week after an earthquake decimated large swathes of northern Indian-administered Kashmir, civilians and NGOs have taken it upon themselves to feed, clothe, nurse and house thousands of survivors.…October 18, 2005
The Pakistan Sikh Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee has set up camps in Muzaffarabad and Badgram in PoK to provide relief to the quake-affected. Two truckloads of relief material, including food, clothes and other…October 13, 2005
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- June 27, 2006
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- May 10, 2006
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