Work of Widow Lal Jan Home is in Full Swing

Widow Lal Jan mother of 8 children are exited about their new home. She is living in a temporary shelter since the earthquake of 2005. Muhammad Aslam who is managing the work has reported that the crew is doing good and we have great weather condition because usually in this month Northern part of Pakistan have lot of raining and even snow some time

Omaha Rapid Response working crew group photo.

Muhammad Aslam is on left most in standing row.

Waheed Alam

Director Pakistan

Intervention in Tribal Area of Pakistan

Omaha Rapid Response has started fruit trees project in the Tribal Area. President Ken Smith was invited by one of the tribal leader because he want to seek help for his village. Ken along with Chris Held, Waheed Alam and Muhammad Farid went to meet them. It was six hour drive from Mansehra. When we reached the area, there were more then 70 people waiting to welcome us. They fired with their Guns to celebrate and to welcome. They provided horses to ride for Ken and Chris. It took one hour to climbed the steep mountain leading to village of the tribe.
The Leader of the tribe had cooked a great meal for Omaha Rapid Response Team and for whole village. After the meal we had the meeting with people. The tribal people told us that they did not get any help from any other NGO since the earthquake 2005. Most of them are still living in temporary shelters . They Unanimously gave the request for a water supply line to their village. The water source is about 2 miles away from their village at a high altitude. So every day they get water from this source not for themselves only but also for their animals, and they are the only source of income. Omaha Rapid Response decided to start its work there by providing fruit trees because their were no fruit trees in whole village. So two thousands and one hundred fruits trees has been distributed so far in this village . Omaha Rapid Response Pakistani Relief Worker Muhammad Aslam is in the area and giving training to the tribal people on how to plant the fruit trees correctly. Still more to come ……………..

Waheed Alam Director Pakistan.

Widow Sajida is happy in her new Home

Widow Saijda Perveen, mother of six children lost her husband one year back. The family had spend all of its saving, and borrowed money for the medical treatment of her husband. Sajida Perveen had already lost her home in the earthquake of 2005 and was living in a miserable conditions.

As you can see the pictures of her home and Kitchen

You can imagine how difficult to live in room of (16 X 12) feets with six children for more then three years. Omaha Rapid Response discoverd her disperate situation . The work on Sajida's home started in November 2008, and construction was completed in Febraury 2009.

Inspecting widows Home

In our recent visit to Pakistan, Omaha Rapid Response inspected the home that we built for the widows. During this visit smoke detectors were installed and we also domestrated to widows and their families how the smoke detectors worked.The widow of house 2 fixed great meal for the ORR visiting team.

President Ken Smith inspected the thick tranparent plastic windows screen installed to make windows air tight and more insulated from cold winter weather