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| October 23, 2005 | Sunday | Ramzan 18, 1426 |
More planes arrive with relief goods
ISLAMABAD, Oct 22: World community continued to send emergency relief assistance for quake victims with more planes landed at the Chaklala Airbase carrying relief goods on Saturday.
A cargo aircraft of Saudi Arabia carrying 70033 kilograms tents and sleeping bags landed here at the airbase. Two cargo aircraft from Germany carrying mineral water and other relief goods also arrived.
Three C-130 aircraft from Turkey carrying medical equipment, medicines and tents also arrived.
A C-295 cargo aircraft from Poland carrying 4,000-kg blankets and 60-kg winter clothes also arrived. Similarly, UAE on Saturday sent 24,000 pounds blankets for the affected people of the October 8 earthquake.
A UAE Red Crescent Society (RCS) relief plane, carrying 44 tons of food supplies to the survivors of earthquake, landed here, the UAE ambassador Ali Mohammad Al Shamsi said.
The relief consignments were delivered to the Cabinet Division for delivery in affected areas
This is the fourth plane of relief goods arrived from UAE. The third plane, which arrived here on Friday, carried 43 tons of relief goods.
The RCS mission, headed by Fahd Abdul Rahman, is engaged in massive operation in Balakot in NWFP and Bagh in Azad Kashmir. A team of the RCS started distribution in Muzaffarabad on Saturday. A tent village is also being established in Balakot near the field hospital of UAE in the outskirts of the city.
In the first phase, the RCS team will erect 100 tents to shelter about 500 homeless affected people. They will also be provided basic needs on daily basis.
Another group of four seriously injured people were airlifted to the UAE.
UAE ambassador Ali Mohammad Al Shamsi said in a statement, issued here on Friday, this was the third group of quake victims shifted to UAE for treatment, taking the number to 34.
An ambulance C-130 plane took the patients to Sheikh Zayed hospital in Abu Dhabi.
JAPAN: The government of Japan has donated $1 million to UNHCR’s relief efforts in Pakistan to rush urgently needed tents to earthquake victims before the onset of winter.
The donation will allow UNHCR to buy and transport more shelters to desperate people in areas of northern Pakistan that have been devastated by the October 8 earthquake.
As coordinator for camp management, the refugee agency needs $22 million to provide relief items and to help the Pakistan government set up temporary camps where needed. In addition to the Japanese donation, UNHCR has received pledges of $2.57 million from Sweden and $300,481 from Italy.
MONSANTO FUND: Monsanto Fund, the philanthropic arm of a Monsanto Company, on Saturday pledged $250,000 to support earthquake relief efforts.
The donation will be made to the World Food Programme and will be supplemented with two-day salary donated by the employees of Monsanto Pakistan to the President’s Earthquake Relief Fund.
The Monsanto Fund has a tradition of supporting disaster relief efforts within communities where the Company operates, and previously made a donation to the WFP to support relief and rebuilding efforts following the tsunami in South and Southeast Asia.
CPACC: Chairman Council of Pakistan-American Chamber of Commerce (PACC), Waqar Ali Khan, has said, Pakistani-American businessmen have donated $0.5 million for the relief work in quake-hit areas, Voice of America (VOA) reported.
Hungarian aid: Hungary had provided humanitarian assistance worth $1 million to earthquake victims, said Hungarian Ambassador Bela Fazekas here on Saturday.
He told reporters that Hungary, also a member of the European Union, provided $100,000 fund to finance Hungarians non-government organizations (NGOs) aid interventions in Pakistan, the ambassador said.
The ambassador said that Hungarian Baptist Charity Service had also sent a ten-member strong searching and rescue team to Pakistan immediately after the disaster. A four-member strong team arrived here on October 13 later joined the first one to assist in rescue operations and medical emergency assistance to the injured in quake-ravaged areas.
Likewise, the ambassador said, the Phoenix Special Savers Foundation and the Hungarian Maltese Charity Service had sent another nine-member strong medical team which carried equipment containing medicine, one mobile intensive unit and surgical, general and infant medical instrument worth $25,000 for a field hospital.
A 15-member strong international Hungarian-Slovakians special water treatment team has also arrived on October 21 and has been transferred to Batal.
CWS-P/A: The Church World Services-Pakistan/Afghanistan has distributed relief goods in Balakot, one of the worst affected areas of NWFP and has been inaccessible due to landslides and bad weather conditions.
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