DOHA: Sheikh Thani bin Abdullah Foundation for Humanitarian Services (RAF) has earmarked QR1m to provide urgent relief to 66,000 quake-affected people in Pakistan.
A powerful tremor rocked southwest Pakistan early last Wednesday damaging several homes and leaving thousands of people hapless.
RAF began distributing relief materials in collaboration with a British charity organisation and some local partners, to disaster-affected villages and cities in Baluchistan, Northwest Frontier (Pakhtunkhawah), Punjab and Sindh provinces.
RAF launched a drive on November 1 to provide relief to 11,000 families comprising 66,000 people. It targets people severely affected people in Dera Ismail Khan, Lahore, Karachi, Jhang, Khuzdar and Tharparkar, among other places.
A survey was conducted to select families for aid. Priority is being given to families having widows, orphans, left without breadwinners, small children and senior citizens and people with special needs.
Relief package includes basic ration materials like flour, rice, lentils, edible oils, sugar, salt, milk and some spices in addition to cleaning substances.
It is enough for one month. The distribution began on November 1.
The earthquake claimed 258 lives and over 1,500 sustained major injuries.
At least, 8,453 homes and 113 schools were demolished in the northwestern part of the country, said a report posted on RAF website.
Rescue works continue to save the lives of people stranded in some areas.
Some displaced people are in danger due to severe cold wave and lack of proper food as the winter season began. Children are in more danger and might suffer from cold.
Thousands are forced to spend shivering nights under open sky where the temperature dipped near to frozen point because they could not go back to their homes damaged by the earthquake.
Blankets and tents are needed on urgently basis for the survival of the displaced people there.
The Peninsula
