APWA FLOOD RELIEF
APWA’s efforts in the flood affected areas of the country are ongoing
To date the following has been achieved:
424 bags of ration have been distributed. Each costing Rs. 1400/-.
All distribution was supervised by a member of APWA NHQ, who ensured that the supplies were given to genuine IDP's. 124 bags were distributed in Matyari, interior Sindh. 200 bags donated by our Manchester Chapter, were distributed in § Sehwan.
Karampur, Amri, Manjhand and Dadu. 100 bags were distributed in collaboration with a sister NGO in the Thatta area.
Sindh Branch
Sukkur
200 bags were dropped from an Army Helicopter in the Thal area of interior Sindh. Rations are being distributed daily in surrounding areas of Sukkur. 500 suits of clothes were distributed in the Makli. In Khairpur branch 35 IDP's are given shelter and provided food.
Punjab Branch
In various areas of Punjab, APWA has mobilized its flood relief activities and raised funds for IDP's. Rs. 50,000/- each were sent to Rahim Yar Khan and Dera Ghazi Khan for distribution of rations through the Army Relief Camp. Rs. 75,000/- was handed over to the Edhi relief camp in Sargodha for distribution. APWA DG Khan donated Rs. 86,000/- in collaboration with Ladies Club DG Khan for distribution in Loke Utra Village. Two hand pumps are being installed in Sunjerpur and Bandee villages.
Khyber Pakhtoonkhawa
Food provided to 894 IDP's in Khyber Pakhtoonkhawa. 35 persons (IDP's) residing in G.P.S. Mustafa Ghee School in Peshawar city are being provided meals on a daily basis. 317 IDP's residing in G.H.S. Munda Beri are being provided with meals on a daily basis. Clothes provided to 100 men, 77 women and 314 infants.
APWA MONCHESTER Branch
2000 pounds donated by APWA Manchester branch an account of Flood effected people.
APWA in cooperation with United Pakistan, distributed 100 bags to the flood displaced people of Shikarpur, Ghari Yasin and Sultan Kot, Jacobabad.
Dr. Behroz son of Khanum Farkhanda Hashim who was a dedicated member of APWA has donated over 1000 meters of fabric for bed sheets, pillow cases and clothes to be distributed to flood victims.
APWA has in its ongoing relief work now in cooperation with Al-Zohra Welfare Association will distribute the above clothes to the flood victims in Sindh.
APWA donated one lac (100,000) rupees to the Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation to hold a Urology Medical Camp in Mithi / Sindh where kidney patients are being helped.
Dallas Chapter- USAIs organizing a fund – raiser in late October in conjunction with the NGO, Al-Zohra. This is a large concert with prominent artists and fashion clothes sent by Karachi designer’s tickets and the sale money will go for the flood rehabilitation.
-Gave 100 ration bags to “United Pakistan” who distributed them
“ Garhi Yaseen” Sindh District “Shikarpur”
THE BIBLICAL FLOOD OF 2010 PAKISTAN
Syeda Ayesha Javeri
The encircling waters, a huge rounded sea,
And in the centre, in significant We,
The awe of Almighty in swift surging waves,
Has battered the dams, generations had made.
The tops of submerged roofs in distant dull sight,
Remains of some village once throbbing with life,
And the floating black carcass of livestock so dead,
That snakes seek flat refuge without any dread.
A huge angry river, twin to its mate,
That topped o’er the rent dykes on a drastic spate,
So the mighty Indus has a brother in flood,
That flows parallel surges and makes cities mud.
And the poor rural people beset with life’s woes,
Move panic filled bodies to ridges high known,
They clutch the small children through torrents of pain,
That freeze their dazed mindset, to shout or complain.
Why has this happened and why did they break?
The conduits and bunds that our fathers had made?
Did you loose all this water to save some small land,
Of a fat greedy feudal who protected his band.
The curve of this river in due natural course,
Would have washed his flat field but not this great loss,
And have flowed with earths’ slope to a desert far gone,
Where their flowers would bloom in the summer’s last song.
But all this is past and this nightmare is here,
The torrents gush on, alls devastation and fear,
There’s its violent anger to find level ground,
Shikarpur, Sultankot now Dadu has gone.
One third of this nation has lost hearth and home,
And o’er this vast earth as vagabonds roam,
The children have no schools, the infants are dead,
The mothers are stone -eyed with tears now unshed.
When the last Judgment comes and they stand in the dock,
Will they cognize the evil that greed had then wrought?
Will the weeping widows and orphan girl -child
Appeal to the angels for justice on High?
Alas! That day is far off and the problem is now,
Rich cities have emptied their wealth to endow,
For the public has come to the call of the land,
And their trucks with food succor race on through the sand.
But it’s a drop in this ocean of sorrow and hurt,
The babies are sickening from black water and dirt,
Own prayers are unanswered, the Lord is aghast,
At this country that will not repent its bad past.
Mere words do not matters in God’s balanced scales,
All prater and false prayers don’t hoodwink His grace,
True intent and goodness can now save us all,
Dear Heaven, bequeath this and hear our frail call.