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 – 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)

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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)