Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Our Clothing Project.

Women of our embroidery center in Jabber Gali are busy in sewing the garments for our clothing project for flood affected area of village Dobar. Below are few pictures of work progress.




Next week we are going to start our next project in village Dobar. In this project we will start our work on small hydro power generator. For more updates about this project please check the coming post.

Waheed Alam
Omaha Rapid Response
Pakistan

Sunday, October 17, 2010

Connecting old disaster to new disaster

Above is the picture of our females embroidery center in Jabber Gali. We are going to use our best trained females to sew the clothing for the flood affected children of village Dobar.
In this way the earthquake affected community of Jabber Gali is now helping us to response to flood affected people of village Dobar.
We have already got the sizes of the children clothing and we are in the process of getting material from Lahore.

We also visited our on going projects in earthquake affected area.













We visited our home under construction in Shinkiari
We met with the widows families of our home building project. We responded to their immediate needs by installing new screen doors and screen for the windows. We also provided warm blankets for this up coming winter.
Our fruit trees are doing great. We had a great crop this summer. All the fruit has been picked from this tree. But this is representative of the size of our fruit trees, as you rememeber we planted ove 14,000 like this.

Making assessment of this widows home.
We have been working with widow's family for the last year. We are providing medical care to her son who is suffering with epilepsy. Her only daughter shown on the right has a polio and cannot walk.
We supplied a weeks worth of food to her family.

Waheed Alam
National Director
Pakistan

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Visiting village Dobair

Village Dobair which has been divested by the recent flooding.
The flood water has swiped away 200 home killing more then 52 people. All the businesses, schools hospital and road has been completely gone.
We are coordinating our relief operation in this area for the last one month.
Recently we have visited area and met with the affected people and share our love and prayers. We have also received their request and assessed their needs.

Where once was a Vehicle Bridge.