SA Relief http://www.sarelief.com Coordinating Disaster Relief for South Asia Fri, 05 Apr 2013 17:01:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 2006-2007 arafiq786@gmail.com (SA Relief) arafiq786@gmail.com (SA Relief) http://www.sarelief.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg SA Relief http://www.sarelief.com 144 144 Coordinating Disaster Relief for South Asia SA Relief SA Relief arafiq786@gmail.com no no Solar Lighting Initiative http://www.sarelief.com/2013/04/solar_lighting/ http://www.sarelief.com/2013/04/solar_lighting/#comments Fri, 05 Apr 2013 12:34:55 +0000 admin http://www.sarelief.com/?p=910 SA Relief recently launched the Solar Lighting Initiative with the financing of 16 solar light units for 16 homes in Mirpurkhas, Sindh, Pakistan. The housing project is led by CDRS and Hum Network Foundation. The Solar Lighting Units have been manufactured by Arya Solar in Bangladesh consist of:

  • 100 Watt Solar Panel
  • 2 LED lights
  • Charge Controller and Battery pack
  • Total Cost USD 100
The homes Hum Network Foundation and CDRS have built are earmarked for recent flood victims in Sindh (for more information see Facebook Page). Going forward we would like to continue to bring Light through Solar to Sindh’s rural population, for which we need help from our supporters who can make a monetary donation of any amount. Help Us light Sindh — One Lamp, One Family, One Village At A Time!

SA Relief is social good platform operating under the Pakistan Science and Engineering Foundation (Paksef) which is an IRS tax-exempt 501(c)(3) California registered not-for-profit corporation.

]]> http://www.sarelief.com/2013/04/solar_lighting/feed/ 0 Terrorists Rock Karachi In Twin Blasts http://www.sarelief.com/2013/03/terrorist-rock-karachi-in-twin-bomb-blast/ http://www.sarelief.com/2013/03/terrorist-rock-karachi-in-twin-bomb-blast/#comments Mon, 04 Mar 2013 01:04:30 +0000 admin http://www.sarelief.com/2013/03/terrorist-rock-karachi-in-twin-bomb-blast/ Last night terrorists rocked Abbas Town which is a densely populated, predominantly Shia neighborhood of Karachi, killing scores of women and children. Thus far over 100 people have been reported dead, countless injured, over 800 people displaced from their burning homes.

SA Relief is observing the situation as we attempt to communicate rescue and relief activities from ground zero.
Temporarily Information is being sharing via our Twitter and Facebook pages:

SA Relief on Twitter
SA Relief on Facebook

If you have anything to report please kindly tweet us at @sarelief or email info@sarelief.com.

Presently there is an urgent need for blood. Citizen’s who are eligible to donate blood are invited to visit Jinnah Hospital or Agha Khan immediately.

A temporary shelter for people displaced from their homes has been setup. There is an urgent need for cooked food, water, and milk.

More information about the blast and immediate needs can be found on our associate, Faisal Kapadia’s blog

Compiled by AR Rafiq | Last Update: 6:03AM 04-03-13

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]]> http://www.sarelief.com/2013/03/terrorist-rock-karachi-in-twin-bomb-blast/feed/ 4 #PKALERT – Pakistan Floods 2012 http://www.sarelief.com/2012/09/pkalert-floods-2012/ http://www.sarelief.com/2012/09/pkalert-floods-2012/#comments Tue, 11 Sep 2012 04:34:17 +0000 admin http://www.sarelief.com/?p=874 Over the past several days torrential rains have left deaths, destruction, and devastation in several parts of Pakistan. According to National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) the  late spell of Monsoon rains has damaged over 7,000 homes, claiming 75 lives, and injuring another 68.

To date the following regions have been affected: Rajanpur and Dera Ghazi Khan, Rahimyar Khan in Punjab province (read more here), Jacobabad, Dadu, kandhkot, Shikarpur in Sindh province, and several districts in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province (read more here)

SA Relief is closely monitoring the situation and has setup the #PKALERT call sign on twitter where communities or individuals looking for help can connect with possible care givers. Also individuals can reach to SA RELIEF directly via email at pkfloods@sarelief.com. Accordingly SA Relief will circulate and solicit support through our respective channels.

Additionally we encourage our civil society, NGO, and government partners assistance in keeping the following wiki page updated as a means to better facilitate and coordinate between stakeholders on the ground.

PKALERT – Floods 2012 Wiki


]]> http://www.sarelief.com/2012/09/pkalert-floods-2012/feed/ 0 Education Relief for Flood Victims http://www.sarelief.com/2012/01/yasminnigar/ http://www.sarelief.com/2012/01/yasminnigar/#comments Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:12:38 +0000 admin http://www.sarelief.com/?p=808 KARACHI, JAN 2012: Team SA Relief pledges continued support for the School Of Britainnica education initiative, led by Mrs. Yasmin Nigar for children affected by the 2010 and 2011 monsoon flooding in Sindh, Pakistan. The school is situated along the Super Highway (Karach-Hyderabad M8 Motorway).

Yasmin Nigar, is an educationist and social activist from Pakistan. She is the owner of School of Britannica, a place built specifically for girls whose parents cannot afford or think of providing quality education to their daughters.

Watch Mrs Nigar tell you how she used to knock on every door in her neighborhood and convince the people there to educate their daughters. She also takes care of kids from flood affected areas, without any government assistance.

While initially the assistance for these people included rations, they have now been asked to find work, and the women and some men have been provided loans on a payable when able basis to sell water or tea at the nearby sabzi Mandi, or sell small towels etc at the gas stations on the highway, while the women were given bangles and mehndi etc to sell.

The main thrust for Mrs. Nigar is to see that the children do not loiter about and get into bad company, whilst commuting between the school and their homes. As a result Mrs Nigar has been personally transporting as many children as her Suzuki HiRoof can accommodate.

SA Relief has agreed, as part of our continued support to provide $1.500 (Rs 133,500) for three months to cover the cost fuel, driver’s salary, and also provide warm clothing to children and elderly folks. In exchange Mrs Yasmin Nigar has agreed to furnish SA Relief with a monthly status report that would include detailed accounting of the funds. Earlier on October 16, 2011 we handed Mrs Yasmin Nigar a check for Rs 120,000 (approximately $1,348).

Mrs Yasmin Nigar informs us  that about $340/month (approximately Rs. 30,000/month) would cover these expenses and has requested long term commitments from prospective donors. Other than that there are recurring expenses for meals for the children, books, uniforms and stationary items. For information on donating to this cause email pkfloods@sarelief.com

Following is a documentary on Mrs Yasmin Nigar and her work:

SA Relief, a DBA operating under Paksef (Pakistan Science and Engineering Foundation) is a 501(c)(3) tax-deductible non-profit Corporation registered in California, U.S.A.

]]> http://www.sarelief.com/2012/01/yasminnigar/feed/ 0 Pkrelief update http://www.sarelief.com/2011/09/pkrelief-update/ http://www.sarelief.com/2011/09/pkrelief-update/#comments Wed, 28 Sep 2011 18:33:50 +0000 FaisalKapadia http://www.sarelief.com/?p=731 Relief initiatives completed this week

1) Abdul Sattar Ishaqani and Nishat wellfare organization combined with us to bring relief in the form of 500 ration hampers as well as medicines and a medical camp to the area of Sanghar. Pictures of this undertaking are available here

2) Hamid Yahya and his team from CFC took their team to sanghar and we supported them with 300 ration hampers, 450 litres of water and medicines. Pictures of this undertaking are available here

3) Alhuda’s team went to Sujawal and we supplied them anti malaria medicine for 400 patients.

4) We started a Kitchen In Khorwah, about an hours drive from badin with the help of our team member Salim Khan to bring cooked meals of Water and beef to 750 people daily. This kitchen has been working all of last week and pictures of our cooked meal distribution are available here.

5) We have also received a donation for 10,000 fruit juice packs and have sent half of these to badin already, they will arrive and be distributed tomorrow.

Initiatives to come

  • We plan to continue our kitchen in Khorwah for the next ten days, we are also trying to increase the size of the people served from 750 daily to 1500
  • We have acquired 1000 malaria nets (self standing) and will distribute them in different areas
  • We are in touch with LRBT through Afia Salam and plan to provide eye treatment to the host of families that have arrived on the highway in Karachi
  • We are in touch with rangers to liaison with and provide relief in the shape of ready to eat meals to places where we as a relief team cannot reach personally or through our contacts.
  • We are planning and will organize a medical camp as soon as we get adequate supplies of medicine and doctors..currently medicines are in really short supply due to hoarding.

As you have probably noticed , our focus in on immediate relief right now. This is because there are according to conservative estimates more than 8 million people on the roads od Sindh right now. So the real desperate need is of cooked food, water, juice, rations, anti malaria and malaria preventive medicine, mosquito nets and so on.  Rehabilitation plans will come later, first we need to ensure that these people do not die of hunger or sickness.

We at Sarelief do not believe in waiting for the right time to distribute aid, we believe every moment is precious and thus try to get aid to the ground as fast as possible and through partnering with any reliable organization. We also do NOT charge fuel expenses, travelling expenses, food lodging or any other kind of administrative overheads thus insuring that every single penny of your aid gets to the needy, not some percentage of it.

We appeal to every single one of you to help our pakistani brethren out of this tragedy, whether it is by donating to us or to any other reliable organization on the ground!!

We thank all our donors for the support they have given us, god bless all of you wherever you are!!

Pk relief is the hashtag (#pkrelief) we use on social media to categorize all the work being done by us and our partners on the ground in the 2011 rain disaster in Pakistan.

To Donate please click here.

]]> http://www.sarelief.com/2011/09/pkrelief-update/feed/ 0 PkRelief : Expense Sheet http://www.sarelief.com/2011/09/pkrelief-expense-sheet/ http://www.sarelief.com/2011/09/pkrelief-expense-sheet/#comments Fri, 16 Sep 2011 11:15:20 +0000 DrAwab http://www.sarelief.com/?p=704 In an effort to maintain transparency during our flood relief efforts in 2011. Our on-ground partners [Dr. Awab Alvi & Faisal Kapadia] in Karachi have chosen to make public the expenses made on each relief mission which they have carried forth into the flood affected region. At the same time for the sake of privacy the names of donors has been kept private only showing publichly the total sum of donations received. It can in-effect be used as barometer to calculate the remaining funds in-hand with PkRelief. Please do appreciate that they have tried their best to acquire the best possible rates to effectively utilize the donations received.

]]> http://www.sarelief.com/2011/09/pkrelief-expense-sheet/feed/ 1 Sindh Flooding: Relief & Recovery Resources http://www.sarelief.com/2011/09/reliefresources/ http://www.sarelief.com/2011/09/reliefresources/#comments Tue, 13 Sep 2011 22:00:57 +0000 admin http://www.sarelief.com/?p=686 SA Relief is keeping track of relief resources and information in various areas of Sindh. We request you to help us by willing out the form below with any information you have about relief groups or organizations catering to the flood victims. Our team will verify the information submitted before it’s published here.

]]> http://www.sarelief.com/2011/09/reliefresources/feed/ 1 Flood Relief Mission II — Badin http://www.sarelief.com/2011/09/mission2_badin2011/ http://www.sarelief.com/2011/09/mission2_badin2011/#comments Thu, 08 Sep 2011 03:21:17 +0000 admin http://www.sarelief.com/?p=675 Owly Images

SUNDAY, SEPT 11, 2011: Team PKRELIF, which is a conglomerate between SA Relief and OffroadPakistan plans to head towards Badin (in Sindh, Pakistan) which is the worst hit flood area. Approximately 980,000 acres, 1,021,300 victims, 438,000 houses have  been  destroyed.  This will be team PKRELIF’s second expedition, with the first that took place last week before the Eid holidays (click for full report).

The plan is to go with 300+ food hampers, also included are large quantities of ready-to-eat food items.  We invite volunteers, but only if you are ready to help and are self sufficient. To volunteer email Awab Alvi or Faisal Kapadia at pkfloods@sarelief.com. You can also contribute by donating funds.

All major credit cards accepted and processed through PayPal

Funds are being collected by Paksef (Pakistan Science and Engineering Foundation) which is a 501(c)(3) tax-deductible non-profit Corporation in California. SA Relief operates under Paksef.

Local Pakistan residents can donate via Bank Al Habib
Account#: 1078-0081-001670-01-4
Branch Code: 1078
Contact Person: Faisal Kapadia (pkfloods@sarelief.com)

]]> http://www.sarelief.com/2011/09/mission2_badin2011/feed/ 1 Situation Report from Khorwah, Badin District http://www.sarelief.com/2011/08/situation-report-from-khorwah-badin-district/ http://www.sarelief.com/2011/08/situation-report-from-khorwah-badin-district/#comments Thu, 01 Sep 2011 01:08:26 +0000 admin http://www.sarelief.com/?p=664 Team PkRelief completed their second 2011 flood relief mission to Khorwah and Tando Mohammad Khan in Pakistan’s southern province of Sindh. Following is a short video report for you, the donor on the aid distribution process and the the current situation on the ground.

There is still tremendous work to be done, team PkRelief which is a conglomerate between SA Relief and OffRoad Pakistan (click for more information) requires your support to continue it’s humanitarian missions. We encourage you to donate monetarily or inkind by volunteering your time or contributing relief goods.

Inkind donations email: pkfloods@sarelief.com

Monetary donations can be made one of two ways:

All major credit cards accepted and processed through PayPal

Funds are being collected by Paksef (Pakistan Science and Engineering Foundation) which is a 501(c)(3) tax-deductible non-profit Corporation in California. SA Relief operates under Paksef.

Local Pakistan residents can donate via Bank Al Habib
Account#: 1078-0081-001670-01-4
Branch Code: 1078
Contact Person: Faisal Kapadia (pkfloods@sarelief.com)

]]> http://www.sarelief.com/2011/08/situation-report-from-khorwah-badin-district/feed/ 2 Mission Badin: Live Tracker http://www.sarelief.com/2011/08/aug28missionbadin/ http://www.sarelief.com/2011/08/aug28missionbadin/#comments Sat, 27 Aug 2011 22:05:12 +0000 admin http://www.sarelief.com/?p=640 Team #PkRelief is all set for it’s next Flood Relief 2011 – Mission: Badin. The team leaves tomorrow, Sunday August 28, 2011. You can follow the expedition progress via twitter at #PKRelief or by clicking on the Cover-It-Live session below.

Click Here to follow Tweets

We invite you to HELP Us, HELP the 1.4 Million flood victims. Please Chip-in however much you can.

All major credit cards accepted and processed through PayPal

Funds are being collected by Paksef (Pakistan Science and Engineering Foundation) which is a 501(c)(3) tax-deductible non-profit Corporation in California. SA Relief operates under Paksef.

Local Pakistan residents can donate via Bank Al Habib
Account#: 1078-0081-001670-01-4
Branch Code: 1078
Contact Person: Faisal Kapadia (pkfloods@sarelief.com)

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