Fazilpur -- A Heart touching Experience

Updates of 23th August 2010

While working in Sind, a phone call of a friend who was a part of our Faazilpur network was received from Dera Ghazi Khan; he shared a heart touching experience of selflessness that boosts our confidence on our nation a lot............

In Fazilpur, we served 17 families that were resident in a workshop at the roadside in much troubled conditions; as per our local sources they belong to white color families who used to maintain high integrity. Due to these unfortunate circumstances they become dependable on others. We served them silently with 17 Ration packages and returned back. What we heard afterwards was that they picked those packages and went back to their flooded village that was still surrounded by water and a couple of their fellow villagers were stranded there; they distributed their complete ration to these stranded persons by saying as this place is still surrounded by water so there is more need of this stuff here and they returned empty handed inspite of the fact that they themselves were in a severe need at that time.

By hearing this all; my faith in our nation was strengthened up more, with these sort of people around we would face such catastrophies of life smoothly Inshallah

Pakistan Zindabad

Khairpur – Assessment of affected families/people

Updates of 23rd of August 2010

We went with three different teams and assessed almost 140 – 170 families in Loung Faqir, Shadi Shaheed and Kot Diji. Out of these there were 35 – 40 families who need Kitchen Sets. We also got feedback directly from people that they need clothes and washing & bath soap on urgent basis. We respond to these urgent needs and immediately ordered washing and bath soaps and asked our packager/transporter to include 4 washing soaps and 2 bath soaps in each of the packages. We also initiate a campaign back in Karachi to collect, sort and package used and new clothes and send them to Khairpur as soon as possible.

On the other hand the vendor who committed us to transport all packaged items on our designated location requested more time from us and promised to deliver latest by 9:00 am on 24th of August 2010.