Posted by: Yuel Bhatti
Executive Secretary
URI Pakistan
To read the e-Update, just follow this link: http://www.uri.org/eupdate/uri_eupdate_for_may_2009.html
The number of refugees forced to flee from Swat Valley and adjacent districts has increased to 1.2 million. Their problems mount daily. As URI members we are particularly concerned about Muslim, Christian, Sikh and Baha’i refugees. Aid is scarce. These honorable people have no choice but to look to their brothers and sisters from Pakistan and the rest of the world for relief. They will appreciate and receive with thanks food items, tents or medicine in this most difficult time of crisis. We believe that solidarity with the URI global community will be a great gesture of our care and love for them.
We have calculated primary food and survival items. A family of 7 can be fed for one day for $15; for one month for $450. Tents and water coolers are approximately $130 per family. We hope to provide food, medicine, tents or water supplies to between 500-1000 families (or as many as we can) with donations received. We appeal to the URI family to come to our aid at this time of crisis and we welcome with gratitude any help that can be offered for these people.
Let us hope and pray that this crisis will end soon and that religiously motivated violence will come to an end. Let us pray that the people of Pakistan and especially of Swat will live in peace in the near future. God bless Pakistan!
Thanking you in anticipation for considering our appeal we remain,
Yours sincerely,
Father James Channan OP,
URI Regional Coordinator,
Pakistan
Maulana Syed Muhammad Abd-Ul-Khabir Azad,
Global Council Trustee,
Asia
HOW TO CONTRIBUTE
Time is of the essence for the people of Pakistan. Please consider donating by May 27th. Donations will be sent to the URI Lahore MCC; Fr. James Channan and Maulana Syed Azad will manage the distribution of goods so that 100% of your donation will supply basic necessities to refugees. There are three ways to donate:
- By credit card - if you are anywhere in world - please call or fax the URI office in San Francisco. Provide credit card name and address, account number, expiration date and the donation amount. Please state that the donation is for Humanitarian Relief for Pakistan. URI Phone: +1.415.561.2300, FAX +1.415.561.2313.
- By check - within the USA, make checks payable to URI. On the memo line, write Humanitarian Relief for Pakistan. Mail to: United Religions Initiative, P.O. Box 29242, San Francisco, CA 94129 USA.
- Online – Click here. Choose “Humanitarian Relief for Pakistan.”
The Following medicines are urgently required:
1. Water purification tablets.
2. Life saving drugs.
3. Vaccines for malaria, cholera, typhoid, influenza.
4. Pain killers including strong ones like morphine derivatives, tremadol, pethadine, kinz .
5. Antibiotics e.g. tetnus, amoxil, gentamycin.
6. IV cannulas
7. IV Drip sets
8. IV drips: normal saline, ringerlactate
9. Local anesthetics (injections)
10. Cotton bandages, cotton.
11. Surgical instruments: e.g needle holders, forceps, tweezers.
12. Suturing materials, Skin staples
URI Humanitarian Relief Local Contribution/Donation
Pak Rupee Account in Pakistan to be used for URI local contributions
Pak Rupee Account # 20610-714-155616
James Channan
Habib Metropolitan Bank Ltd.
Gulberg Branch
85-D-1, Main Boulevard
Gulberg III
Lahore
Postal Address:
Fr James Channan OP
153 Ali Block
New Garden Town
Lahore 54600
Cell no. 0300-8730669
The latest report issued by the Humanitarian Coordinator’s Office / OCHA in Pakistan, on behalf of the UN Humanitarian Country Team. It covers the period from 12 May to 19 May.
HIGHLIGHTS/KEY PRIORITIES
- 2,321,000 IDPs have been registered (as at 19 May) – about 275,000 in camps and 2,046,000 outside camps
- 26 camps are now in operation in 6 districts
- Tens of thousands remaining in areas of intense fighting with limited access to food, water and emergency medical care
- The public launch of the revised Humanitarian Response Plan is scheduled for Friday 22 May in Islamabad.
