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SUKKUR, Oct 12: Thousands of people from Sukkur, Shikarpur, Jacobabad, Kandhkot and Khairpur donated generously at various relief camps and especially in the bank accounts opened by different NGOs for quake victims.
All the political parties including Jamaat-i-Islami, Muttahida Qaumi Movement, PML-N and the PPP and social welfare organizations established relief camps to collect funds and relief goods.
The schoolchildren were also visiting from shop to shop to collect cash to send to the earthquake victims.
The Ranger personnel established camps at various places for collecting relief goods and cash for the earthquake victims while Sukkur RPO Niaz Siddiqui sent 10 trucks of relief goods including, blankets, medicines, and food items to Islamabad for the earthquake victims.
Political parties were also busy collecting relief goods and cash to help the earthquake victims in the time of need and sent five trucks of relief goods to Islamabad by the PPP.
DCO Shafiq Ahmed Khoso has asked the NGOs, government organizations and philanthropists, who want to donate for the victims of earthquake, to contact DDO Revenue Sohail Anwar Baloch or DDO General Administration Mohammad Ibrahim Mahesar on telephone No. 9310841 or 9310603.
LARKANA: Various social and political organizations along with the Rangers have set up relief camps in Larkana for the earthquake victims of Punjab, NWFP and Azad Kashmir.
The PPP, PML-Q and F, Khaksar Tehrik, MQM and ZABIST have established camps on the Royal Road, Empire Road, Bakrani Road and Bank Square.
A camp has also been set up at the Larkana DCO office.
Teachers and students of the Larkana Public School have also set up a camp.
People flocked at the camps and donated food, medicines, clothes, blankets and cash.
Leaders of all political parties were present at the camps appealing to people to contribute wholeheartedly.
They said that the relief camps would remain there till end of the disaster.
The Larkana district PPP and the Khaksar Tehrik dispatched two trucks on Wednesday loaded with the items of daily use to the affected areas.
Teachers and students of Chandka Medical College donated Rs300,000 in the president’s relief fund.
MIRPURKHAS: Relief camps set up by political parties, NGOs and Rangers in all six talukas of Mirpurkhas district are receiving good response from people.
Relief goods are collected in good number at the camps set by the Pak Ranger Indus 81 wing and the PPP at the Station chowk.
The president of the Mirpurkhas Chamber of Commerce and Industries, Abdul Khaliq Khan, has said that the chamber sent goods worth hundreds of thousands of rupees to the affected areas.
Mirpurkhas taluka Nazim Ghulam Dastagir Kamali and UC-3 Nazim Dr Zafar Kamali have said that seven trucks loaded with blankets, bed-sheets, cloths, milk, ghee, mineral water bottles, sugar and rice sent for the victims.
The PML-F has sent four trucks carrying everyday-use-items worth Rs1 million to help the quake affected people.
In the camp of the Chemist and Druggist Association, Mirpurkhas district, Drug Inspector Chanderlal and President of the Association Rafiq Ahmed have said that they collected medicines of Rs500,000 and commodities worth Rs200,000.
Blankets, foams, bed-sheets, cloths, shoes and cash of Rs100,000 have been collected in the camps of Khidmat-e-Khalaq and Jamaat-i-Islami.
Menwhile, the district government collected relief goods in the Mirpurkhas district through its revenue department on Wednesday. The DDO revenue, Mirpurkhas, Asif Ikram, told newsmen that goods were pouring in as people’s response was spontaneous to assist the earthquake victims.
Five trucks carrying medicines, blankets, beddings, cloths, ghee, rice, flour, milk, biscuits and tea have been dispatched for delivery to the earth-quake victims.
UMERKOT: The Executive District Officer Health, Umerkot Dr (Capt) Fazal Illahi Yousfani, has handed over medicines and clothes worth Rs100,000 and clothes to the Sindh health services director-general on behalf of the health department, Umerkot, for the victims.
KHAIRPUR: A relief camp for the earthquake victims has been set by the PPP women’s wing at the Civic Centre Chowk here on Wednesday.
Local PPP women’s wing president Ghazala Siyal said that they have also constituted 20 mobile teams of women’s who are visiting different mohallas and colonies and collecting relief goods for quake victims.
NAWABSHAH: Collection of relief goods and donations continued at different camps set up in the district by various organisations. People donated cash and other commodities in the camps of PPP, PML-F, the Pakistan Rangers, Khabroon group, ARY group and other organisations here on Wednesday.
HYDERABAD: DCO Mohammad Hussain Syed has announced that in addition to contribution of one-day salary by officers of the BPS-16 to 20, the district government has also donated an amount of Rs2.5 million in the President’s Relief Fund established for rehabilitation of earthquake victims and relief work.
Speaking at a meeting of revenue officers at his office here on Tuesday, he said that besides, all departments of the district government, officers of the HDA and Public School Hyderabad would also contribute toward relief fund through the district government.
He said that four relief camps, one each at the Sindh Museum Qasimabad, Latifabad-7, the Government High School near the Circular Building and Tandojam had been established to collect relief articles.
He said a control room had also been established with telephone (022-9200115) and appealed to philanthropists, well- to-do people, NGOs and welfare organizations to come forward and donate relief articles at the relief camps of the district government.
