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: 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: 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 - 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)