50 Days of Urgent Relief in Pakistan.
90,800 people Received Blankets, Medicine and Tents.
''Medical Units Project'' in Favor of 180,000 people.

Q.C. has actively responded to brotherly and humanitarian call to relieve the victims of Pakistan earthquake, which took place on 8 /10/ 12005, killing a big number of people, making millions homeless, and causing destruction in infrastructure.

Q.C. was the first Qatari voluntary organization to get to the stricken areas, since its representative reached there within three days.

Thus, via its office in Islamabad, Q.C. has taken the necessary steps and procedures to organize and send a working group to urgently and directly relieve the victims in coordination with governmental and NG circles in order to ease field operation.

Direct Finance and Distribution of Instant Relief

Relief Supplies included tents, blankets, food, medicines, and winter clothes for children and gas ovens.

Some 76180 persons benefited from this relief.

Urgent Relief Partners

To accomplish this task Q.C.got help from Department of Social Affairs, Qatari Red Crescent society, Qatar Embassy in Pakistan (tents) ,U.A.E. Embassy in Pakistan (tents), Life for Relief and Development Org. and some local circles in Pakistan.

Relief through Co-Partnerships
''Emergency Medical Units and Groups'' Project

This project has been carried out in co-operation with UNICEF and Pakistani Department of Health. And Q.C. provides the project with tents and required financial expenses for the administration.

It aims to participate in urgent medical services in the most affected areas in Kashmir, especially in Muzaffarabad, which was severely destructed, by establishing field medical units and sending 18 medical groups to the stricken areas for a period of six months, in addition to '' Special Women Group'' whose duty is to provide women with medical culture.

Each field medical group consists of one medical doctor, two nurses, two medical technicians and one midwife.

It is estimated that some 180,000 persons will benefit from this project.

The Project Budget:
 

''Urgent Participation in Sheltering the Victims '' Project

Qatar Charity took the initiative to specify urgent needs concerning providing the victims with temporary shelter, distributing relief supplies offered by the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent in Ghari Habibullah, Bahu Gharman, Tandu and Pava areas in Mansahra Province as well as Batl and adjacent villages in Bitigram Province.

Beneficiaries of the first urgent stage of this project amounted to 2000 families during one week; they received 1818 tents with special plastic mattresses and 12726 blankets.

The relief supplies of this project were offered by several countries.
Qatar sent its aid via Qatar Authority for Charitable Activities in co-ordination with The International Federation of the Red Cross and The Red Crescent.

Some other humanitarian organizations offered aid to support the project as well.

Under construction Projects
Permanent camp for Emigrants

Among projects in preparation, Qatar charity is doing its best to construct a permanent camp for emigrants in the North-West Province. It is planned to accommodate a thousand tents for the victims, to include a clinic, school, drinkable water and food.

Qatar Charity and Life for Relief and Development Org. have assumed to collect what the camp needs.

International organizations for relief located in Pakistan will co-operate with Q.C. and Life for Relief Org.

Budget of the project amounts Q.C. 2,868,717.

Recommended partners are: Life Relief and Development Org., UNICEF, WFP, The Federal Relief Commission and Afghan Relief Commission.

The Estimated Budget:
 

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