Karachi: Serving Phase 3 of Umer Goth

23rd September, 2010

The ration that that we distributed on 3rd of September to the IDPs resident at Umer Goth of Karachi was consumed and the local persons contacted us again for a re-serving. After doing a proper verification we executed the Round 3 of serving at Umer Goth and distributed the following items:

§  Flour 10 KG – 45 bags

§  Cooking Oil 1 Litre – 45 bags

§  Daal Chanaa 2 KG – 45 bags

§  Rice 2.5 KG – 50 bags

§  Salt 1 Packet – 26 Packets

§  Red Chilli Powder – 19 Packets

 

Karachi: Serving Details for 250 Families(~1300 Persons) at Manghopir

14th September, 2010

We placed our order on 13th of September, at a ration wholesaler shop situated around UP more area but the guy asked us to pick it up by 14th morning so that he can provide us the ration in 250 packages. As we were in a definite need of the separate ration packages so we agreed and the same guy arranged transportation for us as well to transport the packages to Manghopir area.

We reached  the place at around 4:PM, we spotted out a distribution spot where the representatives of these 250 families were present, the distribution took around 3 hours, we handed over the following ration package to each of 250 families:

§  Flour 10 KG – 250 Bags

§  Daal Chanaa 1 KG – 250 Bags

§  Ghee 1KG – 250 Bags

§  Rice 2.5 KG – 250 Bags

We are really thankful to our volunteers who assisted for the completion of this case, they remain on their toes from the assessment phase till the distribution phase. They asked us that they have also collected cash to help out the flood effected persons and they wanted to have a financial contribution for this case along with their physical contribution. We respected there gesture so for this case around 21% of the total amount spent was the one that was their collection.

Karachi: Verification at Manghopir

12th September, 2010 (Eid 2nd Day)

After receiving a confirmation that a brief list has been prepared for the IDPs at Manghopir, on the 2nd day of Eid we visited the place. At the place the registration was continued from Fajr timings and a list of around 263 families was present with the following information:

Person name
Fathers’Name
Pre-flood resident area
NIC number
Number of family members

After an scrutiny phase of the list and confirmation about the pre-flood resident area of the IDPs there, we decided to serve ration for ~250 families there. Our next step is to search for a ration vendor in a nearby location to Manghopir who can give us cheaper rates and quicker delivery.

Karachi: Need assessment at Manghopir

11th September, 2010 (Eid 1st day)

Eid Mubarak

As referred in the earlier relevant post, a team of our volunteers visited the Manghopir area for the need assessment of the IDPs that were reported to be present there. On Eid evening they visited the place and were able to meet the local contact of ours to have a discussion about the number of persons present there, their previous area from where they got displaced and the issues that they were facing.

They found out that the IDPs that are present there mostly belongs from Meharr and Khairpur Nathan Shah areas of Sind. They were referred to be scattered at various places in the Manghopir area including multiple surrounding Gothhs. Our local contact was asked to make a proper list of the people there in a family wise manner so that we may have a verification phase.

Now we would be waiting for the confirmation of the list availability so to start the verification phase there as per our defined protocol

In Snaps – Distribution @ Khokhrapar; Karachi

3rd September 2010

In Snaps - Dil Muhammad Goth, Gadaap Town; Karachi

2nd September 2010

Karachi – Transportation of Clothes and Slippers to Khairpur District

Updates of 12th September 2010 (2nd day of Eid ul Fitr) and 13th September 2010 (3rd day of Eid ul Fitr)

In the early hours of 2nd day of Eid ul Fitr, we left for Orangi Town via Katti Pahari to execute, load and transport order of 1080 slippers to our warehouse in Karachi. By 3:00pm we were able to unload all slippers in our warehouse and soon after that we went to Light House to purchase and transport 106 Men Kurta Shalwar Suits. At 4:30pm we started loading all items on a truck and at 6:30pm our truck departed for Khairpur City in Khairpur District. Estimated time for the truck to reach its destination was 10 – 12 hours.

We then started packing for our trip by road on our private vehicle to Khairpur City and for that we went to car service center and wasted almost 3 hours due to rush. We came back around 12:00pm and now have just a couple of hours for rest after such a hectic day because we will have to gather at 2:00pm and leave for Khairpur City by 3:00pm. The total distance we had to cover was somewhere around 540 km.

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Karachi – Purchasing Clothes and Slippers for Distribution in Khairpur District during Eid ul Fitr

Updates of 10th September 2010 (Chaand Raat) and 11th September 2010 (1st day of Eid ul Fitr)

As soon as we check out from our offices on last day of Ramazan, we went straight to different markets in Karachi in parallel to locate and purchase clothes and slippers for distribution in Khairpur district during the occasion of Eid ul Fitr. We visited Sadar, Bahadurabad, Haideri, SITE, Awami Markaz, Lalokhait 10 Number, Light House and Orangi. We spent all remaining day and Chaand Raat up till dawn of Eid ul Fitr in purchasing, loading and transportation of following items:

• 101 Men Kurta Shalwar Suits
• 208 Women Kurta Shalwar Dupatta Suits
• 83 Boys Kurta Shalwar Suits
• 68 Girls Kurta Shalwar Dupatta Suits

Apart from above mentioned items, we also booked following orders to be loaded and transported on early hours of second day of Eid ul Fitr:

• 106 Men Kurta Shalwar Suits
• 1080 Slippers for Men, Women and Children

Summing them up with donated items, we get following respective counts:

• 286 Men Kurta/Kameez Shalwar Suits
• 502 Women Kameez Shalwar Dupatta Suits
• 93 Boys Kurta Shalwar Suits
• 128 Girls Kameez Shalwar Dupatta Suits
• Approx. 500 Suits for Baby/Baba Children and Infants
• Approx. 1200 Slippers for Men, Women and Children

Total

• Approx. 1500 Suits
• Approx. 1200 Slippers

Karachi – Sorting, Packing, Marking and Grouping Donated Items

Updates of 9th September 2010 & 10th September 2010

After Iftar we started sorting, packing and marking of donated items containing following:

• Women Clothes
• Men Clothes
• Boys Clothes
• Girls Clothes
• Infants Clothes
• Utensils
• Bed Sheets, Quilts etc
• Shoes, Slippers etc

We worked all night and just before Sehri we were able to process almost 40% of the items. We process rest of the 60% items on next day and again worked from Iftar till Sehri and even after Sehri till almost mid day to finish sorting, packing and marking of all donated items. We found out that we have following items available in respective counts:

• 79 Men Kameez Shalwar Suits
• 294 Women Kameez Shalwar Dupatta Suits
• 10 Boys Kameez Shalwar Suits
• 60 Girls Kameez Shalwar Suits
• Approx. 125 Baba Suits
• Approx. 150 Baby Suits
• Approx. 200 Infants Suits

Karachi: Serving Details at Khokarapar camp

3rd September 2010
We visited the place with our lady volunteer and after completing the verification, we provided the following ration supplies in the Khokhrapar camp

75KG Rice
150KG Flour
15 Liter Cooking Oil
10 Kg Daal Chana
5 Kg Daal Arhar
1KG Red Chili
1.5 Kg Tea
15 KG Sugar
2 KG Dry Milk

Karachi: Serving Details at Dil Muhammad Goth (Gadap Town)

2nd September 2010:

As referred in the related earlier posting, after confirming a list of 24 families comprising of ~150 people, we served the place after Iftar. We were able to do the purchasing from the nearby Malir market and the items were immediately transported to the destination. Here are the details of the supplies that were provided there:
Ration Supplies:

200 Kg Flour
100 Kg Rice
10 Kg Daal Chana
15 Kg Daal Masoor
25 Kg Ghhee
10 Kg Onions
25 Kg Sugar
5 Packs Salt
2.5 Kg Tea
5 Kg Powdered Milk
1Kg Red Chilly
20 Packs Match Box

Note: The cost for the ration supplies was paid by the same IT guy who referred us to this place, we tried to convince him to let us pay for this but his point was that he wanted to serve here himself but dont want to let the people know about it
Utensils Supplies:

3 Cooking Pots (Degchi) 2 Big 1 Medium
6 Tray (Thal) 2 sizes
24 Plastic Plates
3 Cooking Spoons
2 Jug
2 Knife
24 Plastic Glass
1 Chhalni
1 Set Chakla Belan
2 Roti Tawa

As they belong to the same village and had relationships with each other so we provided the number of utensils that may help them out in cooking their food in a combined manner

Karachi – Serving Phase 2 of Umer Goth

Updates of 3rd September 2010

Through one of our local source in Umer Goth, we get information that the ration we distributed to 44 families earlier is about to end. So we plan another phase of distribution in that area. We immediately arranged 44 packages of ration, where each package contains following items:

1. Flour 20kg
2. Daal Chana 1.5kg
3. Salt 1 Pack
4. Tea 200gm
5. Cooking Oil 1kg
6. Sugar 1.5kg
7. Match Box 1 Pack

We load these packages on to a suzuki and went straight to Umer Goth for distribution of these packages.

Karachi: Need assesment at Dil Muhammad Goth (Gadap Town)

2nd September 2010:

With a reference from a known IT guy we visited Dil Muhammad Goth (Gadap Town) to meet Mr. Ahmed and his family who have hosted people coming in from Goth Ghulam Muhammad Jamali, Tehsil Ghadakha & Tehsil Jafarabad Balochistan since past 15 days or so. There they claim to have hosted around ~130-150 people. While visiting there at the day time we saw lesser number of persons being physically present at the location than the claimed numbers. Upon asking about the rest of the people we were told that they went out in search of food towards their relatives, finding some work or even begging for food and clothes. They are kept in an empty plot surrounded by a boundary wall for which they will have to pay Rs. 1500 per month. They initially tried to get some place in the camps located nearby but authorities have refused them due to overload of occupancy. Random checking was done by asking for their NIC and asking for the people and talking to them.
Gender distribution wise there are around 35 men, 70 women and 60 children (including 8-10 infants). 4 of the women are pregnant. There was a girl who is disabled may be due to polio or something for which they were very concerned since she cannot go out with other kids to find food as well as there is an old women whom I believe is suffering from TB as she had problem in breathing properly and had some bleeding while cough. Also 3 days ago an elder man died due to illness in there.

Their immediate needs are: food/ration, cloth, bister (something to sleep on floor) and cooking & eating utensils/crockery. For water they use to get water from neighborhood and store it in a tank already built in the plot. Even if i consider the people being present there at the time of our visit the present items with them were short of their necessity.

Out team will be making list of people family wise with copies of NIC for record and authentication purpose when we visit again most probably on Friday or Saturday and see all of the claimed people gathered there for confirmation of head count before we commit or do any sort of help to them.

We will post updates on it once we are back from there.

Karachi: Need assessment at Khokarapar camp

1st September 2010:
By having information from an authentic source, on 1st September i.e. on Wednesday we went to Khokarapar - an interior area of Malir to meet Mr. Yaqoob who has hosted a few families with the help of his brothers. These people are from their home village Choth Jamali > Shah Bandar > Qadrino > Balti Village, please forgive me if the names are not pronounced correctly. There are 45 Women, 13 Kids, 8 Men in there. All are from respected Syed family of their area. Number of men is lesser since some of them stayed back at their hometown to look after the ruins of their property after the flood while some of them went back after leaving their family members at Karachi.
Main needs are food supplied (ration) since the person hosting is getting into financial problems after supporting the guests for over 15 days. The rest of the needed items like cooking utensils, crockery, floor beds and cloth are already provided by Mr.Yaqoob's family. Men are kept at Yaqoob's home with kids while the women are at his brother's home which is in the same vicinity.
Mr. Yaqoob works in a local textile mill and earns just over 8K a month so we can understand that he will be needing helping hand. Local NGOs and social workers had offered them to provide shelter and food ONLY if they agree to reside at local camp formed at madarsa or school. But they refused as they follow strict parda not willing to live at a mixed kind of camp and belong to a respected Syed family of their area, they wanted to move somewhere else instead of staying at the camp so they refused to enroll themselves with their pics etc. Also what information we have acquired from the same locality is that the camps are already overloaded also food and other facilities are now going bad in terms of timing, quality and quantity.

They have received another family of around ~35 people who are now placed at the house of another relative. The needs of these newly arrived people are not known right now but we have asked Mr. Yaqoob and his brother (Mr. Usman Ghani) that we need to find out about them as well. Since they follow strict parda and not even elder kids are allowed in the woman's area therefore we will be taking a lady volunteer with us time to visit the women area and verify a few things.

We will post the proceedings after visiting them once more at the weekend.

Khairpur – Transported remaining 2 trucks, on field Assessment and Departure

Updates of 25th of August 2010

Remaining two trucks carrying Kitchen Sets and Washing & Bath Soaps were unloaded in the district office of SRSO. We went with one of the assessment team instead of distribution teams today because former ones leave early and later ones leave late and we had to depart for Karachi in the evening. Once we came back from the assessment field, we pack up and check out to leave for Karachi. We will be followed by another team from Karachi in a couple of days time insha’Allah. In the mean while we have instructed the SRSO to continue their assessment and distribution of Kitchen Sets and Washing & Bath Soaps to needy families. We will get daily updates from them and our second team will join them to work on future projects very soon.

Images will be posted soon.

Karachi – Allah Rakhio Goth Map Directions

Here’s the map directions for Allah Rakhio Goth.

Karachi - Medical camps & food supplies to Goth Allah Rakheo & Goth Umer

Umer Goth:

One camp is present at Umer Goth on Super Highway around 23 KM away from city premises, behind Al Habib restaurant towards northern bypass tool tax. Here 45 families consisting of 269 persons (adults n kids) are residing, coming in from Jacobabad, Sindh . Their immediate needs were identified as food, water and medical treatment.

With the food supplies we served 44 families with the following miscellaneous items:

• Flour - 10 kg
  
• Dall - 2 kg
• Powder (dry) milk - 1/2 kg
• Bag of tea - 200 gms
  
• Cooking oil - 1 Kg
• Salt - 1 packet
• 1 match box
• Lota
  

Apart from serving food related items, there was also a medical camp held to cater the immediate needs of the persons arriving there by traveling long distance in humid conditions.

Activities started at around 9.30 am in the morning with 5 persons as our workforce.
All activities were executed based on the duly created personalized list of deserving people with random NIC checking where possible.
Not to forget that 22 water of bottles (20 ltr.) were donated by chemical supplier who say us serving this camp of people.

Allah Rakhio Goth:

Our first spot to serve on super highway was this village for which we have already provided detail earlier in the past week. Continuing the relief activities a medical camp was organized at this spot for people arriving in batches over the past week, around 80-100 in number.
The team members with doctors provided medical checkups, immediate treatments and medicine to cure. Not only the people arriving from Jacobabad were served but also the residents of this village were served upto to the extent of our maximum capability.

We still need the following items aid the people in the above mentioned spots (Please donate new or used):

• Clothes for men, women and children (ages 3 to 10 yrs). Please do not provide pent shirt since they are not use to wear it therefore will go in waste.
• Footwear for men, women and children.
• Cooking utensils.
• Flour, Rice, Lentils, Spices, Oil, Sugar, Milk Powder, Tea, etc.
• They need floor bed pillows/bed sheets/mats/rugs
• They need crockery and cooking utensils

Those who are interested in visiting and distributing the items by themselves please contact us for directions and contact person information.

Karachi – Truck Transportation Available to dispatch Relief Items

Contact Person: Khursheed Ahmed - +92 300 7021280

1. Route: From Karachi to Sehwan
   Truck Type: Rocket
   Duration: 1 days
   Cost: PKR 24,000
2. Route: From Karachi to Kohlu
   Truck Type: Rocket
   Duration: 2 days
   Cost: PKR 35,000
3. Route: From Karachi to Dera Ghazi Khan
   Truck Type: Rocket
   Duration: 3 days
   Cost: PKR 35,000
4. Route: From Karachi to Dera Ismail Khan
   Truck Type: Rocket
   Duration: 3 days
   Cost: PKR 35,000

Contact Person: Atta Ullah - +92 300 2436574

1. Route: From Karachi to Sehwan
   Weight: 10/20 ton
   Duration: 1 days
   Cost: PKR 15,000/25,000
2. Route: From Karachi to Charsadda
   Weight: 10/20 ton
   Duration: 4 days
   Cost: PKR 65,000/85,000
3. Route: From Karachi to Dera Ghazi Khan
   Weight: 10/20 ton
   Duration: 2 days
   Cost: PKR 45,000/60,000
4. Route: From Karachi to Dera Ismail Khan
   Weight: 10/20 ton
   Duration: 3 days
   Cost: PKR 50,000/70,000

Contact Person: Noor Shah - +92 300 2618085, +92 21 32352528, +92 21 23255307

1. Route: From Karachi to Sehwan
   Weight: 13 ton
   Duration: 2 days
   Cost: PKR 26,000
2. Route: From Karachi to Charsadda
   Weight: 13 ton
   Duration: 4 days
   Cost: PKR 55,000
3. Route: From Karachi to Dera Ghazi Khan
   Weight: 13 ton
   Duration: 3 days
   Cost: PKR 38,000
4. Route: From Karachi to Dera Ismail Khan
   Weight: 13 ton
   Duration: 4 days
   Cost: PKR 55,000

Karachi – Addressing urgent needs of Flood Victims

Based on our initial work plan, we created day before yesterday, we supplied following items to the flood victims yesterday morning:

1. Plastic Tirpal – 2 yards x 110 yards – 2 Rolls
2. 2 Large Drums for water storage having capacity of 1000 liters each
3. 3 large cooking pots, 2 roti tawa, 3 dozen plates, half dozen glasses and other crockery items
4. 40kg wood for cooking
5. Clothes for women
6. Ration (Flour, Rice, Lentils, Spices, Oil, Sugar, Milk Powder, Tea, etc.)

They still need following items:

1. Clothes for men, women, children (3 years to 10 years) and infants. (Please donate new or used)
2. Footwear as well. (Please donate new or used)
3. Pillows/bed sheets/mats/rugs (Please donate new or used)
4. Crockery and cooking utensils (Will arrange 3 large cooking pots and plates. Please donate new or used)

Click here to view a slideshow of pictures taken

Karachi: Helping a group of 100 displaced people

Around 50 people from a group of 100 people who were displaced from village between Jacobabad and Thul due to flood have reached Allah Rakhio village, Super Highway, Karachi on yesterday evening. Rest of the 50 people are still stuck in the area because of extremely high transportation rates. Truck owners who were charging around 25,000 for the route are now demanding 70,000+ for the same route in such an emergency situation. They sold the gold they had to raise an amount of 15,000 but they are still short of 55,000 rupees.
We went to Allah Rakhio village last night to evaluate their situation and assess their needs. They were travelling continuously from last 3 days, the first 2 days they keep changing their location from one area to the another, out of fear of flood between Jacobabad and Thul, and finally were successful  to negotiate with a truck owner and came to Karachi after travelling 24 hours.
20 – 25 adults, 20 – 25 children, 10 – 15 buffaloes all in a single truck and above that 24 hours non stop travelling, when they reach Allah Rakhio village, they were so tired and sleepless that they didn’t move an inch and slept on the bare ground. The locals of the Allah Rakhio village, although being extremely poor themselves, offered their own food and beds to the incoming guests. They also have made arrangements for their breakfast.
We inquired about their health and if there’s any patient with them, unfortunately, a little girl was not in a good condition and was drowsy. We left immediately to Godhra Muslim Medical Center & Charitable Hospital in New Karachi Sector 11-G where they admitted the girl. We paid the admission fee but when they knew that the she and her family are affected by recent floods, they told us that they are treating flood victims free of charge. We asked her father to stay with the girl and gave them the contact number in case he need any assistance.
Following is our initial assessment and work plan:

• Empty plots are available for temporary arrangements, they need cabanas and tirpal to create a shelter for themselves. (Will arrange today)
• Drinking water is available in the village, they need large drums/canisters to store water for usage. (Will arrange today)
• Like other villagers they can cook their food on wood fire, they need wood. (Will arrange today)
• They didn’t have clothes except the one they are wearing, they need clothes for men, women, children (3 years to 10 years) and infants. (Please donate new or used)
• They need footwear as well. (Please donate new or used)
• They need ration (Flour, Rice, Lentils, Spices, Oil, Sugar, Milk Powder, Tea, etc.). (Will arrange today)
• They need beds (Will arrange today)
• They need bed pillows/bed sheets/mats/rugs (Please donate new or used)
• They need crockery and cooking utensils (Will arrange 3 large cooking pots and plates. Please donate new or used)