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What We Do ? { AIM in Earthquake Areas }

MANOS UNIDAS SPAIN

IDENTITY, MERGE AND ACTION-AIM PAKISTAN

With

Earthquake Victims

From

November 08 to November 12, 2005 in Balakot (Surrounding areas)

Why these areas were selected?

Selected areas are completed smashed by the earthquake of October 08, 2005

Components of the camp

Relief services.
Medical services.
Research for future plan

Relief

Medical

Research

Pervaiz,Anjum,Nadeem Younis,Gulzar,Rashid,

Samuel,Asad,Nadeem Bashir,Nasir,Johnson,Anthony and Aftab

Filmeen,Nazia and Anjelo John

Amar

Relief

Medical

Research

Pervaiz,Anjum,Nadeem Younis,Gulzar,Rashid,

Samuel,Asad,Nadeem Bashir,Nasir,Johnson,Anthony and Aftab

Filmeen,Nazia and Anjelo John

Amar

Data for this camp:

Total approached people 4407

Males		Females		Children
20- 30 years	30-55 years	18-25 years	25-45 years	4 -6 years
1671	54	1754	45	883

Details of the material for the earthquake victims.

Quilts	Food	Medicine
Two layers of cloth with filling of 4 kg cotton.	Black dry cooked grams, nimko(ingredients of different baked material),bottled water and packed biscuits	Medicine for stomach and skin diseases, bandages for wounds and material for physiotherapy services
Why above items are selected?
It is the urgent need of the earthquake victims due to severe cold.	Selected food is ready for use because the victims have no arrangement for cooking and further, the food selected was complete food.	Medicine is also selected according to the need and situation.

	Person received quilt and food from the AIM base camp. Rate of each quilt is Euro 5 in the market but we received it for euro 4.58 due to nature of activity.
	Food package comprises cooked grams ,baked nimko and biscuits. Each packet of gram is of 800 grams and cost is euro 0.69 but got it for euro 0.55 Each packet of nimko is of 900 grams and its rate is Euro 1 but we got it for 0.6 Each packet of biscuit is of euro 0.06 but we got it for euro 0.04
	Cost of each bottle is Euro 0.13 but we got it for Euro 0.06 for the camp hospital
	We got medicine from our regular supplier for 20% subsidy for earthquake victims.

Our members visited each and every camp of victims of the focus areas for this relief program to achieve the following aim

Methodology adopted

According to settlement arrangement,300-500 people are sitting at one place and in the running arrangement. To manage the place living tents-LT-(tents provided to the victims) are provided by the different organizations, army and government to the victims and installed side by side to accommodate maximum number of people at one leveled place and also to make relief work manageable.

TV(Tent visitor), Relief Supplier (RS)

Group Nos.	Tent Visitors	Relief Suppliers	Name of places	No of tents
1	Aftab	Anthony and Anjum	Balakot,qadirabad and Jurad	1052
2	Nadeem Bashir	Pervaiz and Gulzar	Lower garlet and upper garlet	521
3	Asad	Rashid and Samuel	Zihrat,ismial shaheed and kawai	812
4	Nadeem Younis	Nasir and Johnson	Amjad shaheed and Sungahr	552

Group Nos.	No of tents	November 8	November 9	November 10	November 11	November 12
Group Nos.	No of tents	*12 noon to 6 pm*	*06 to 6 pm*	*6 am to 7 pm*	*6 am to 7 pm*	*5 am to 2 pm*
1	1052	120	236	256	264	176
2	521	60	114	134	129	84
3	812	96	192	208	214	102
4	552	60	126	134	140	92

Group 1 and 3 covered three areas each because they are neighboring areas and group 2 and 4 covered two areas each because of at some distance from each other. The method is like this, TVs and RSs have understanding in the following respects.

Package	Abbreviations
Quilts, food and medicine	QFM
Quilts and food	QF
Quilts and medicine	QM
Food and medicine	FM
Quilts	Q
Food	F
Medicine	M

Tent visitors visited each and every tent of the designated areas with the following objectives.

To assess the need of the victims.
To assess the material already present in the tent.

TV issued slip by writing QFM over it, it means to RS(Relief supplier) that issue one quilt, one packet of food and medicine after medical check-up. If any tent has two families then TV issue two slips. Paper selected for the slips have special reference to AIM.

Why we adopted this method?

In our planning for relief work, we assessed two types of victims.

1. Real victims

2. Fake victims (victims standing along the roadside) from other cities, they just collect the relief and back to their homes and they sell the material which collect in donation in their respective cities.

We visited some victims sitting in the tents to know about the relief work. They shared no doubt the generous people are helping them with different materials but they are completely unaware or cannot imagine that false people are also present in the earthquake areas from near cities(Manshera,Abottabad,Havelian and Taxila), so they imagine that these are earthquake victims standing along the road, they distribute their donations and went back.We only received the donations by the organizations, who visited us in our tents (usually those are international organizations). 25% donations by the local people or local organizations reached to the right deserving people by distribution on roads or without visiting the victims’ tents.

TV had issued slip by visiting each and every tent and victims with that slip were reached to the distribution place (DP), where the RSs provided the material according to the instructions. DP has regular monitoring by the transport person to assess the stock; transport person with our small vehicle had kept the stock constant at DP from the hired trucks (with our material from Faisalabad).

Tent visitor in front of tent of victim woman

Tent visitor in front of tent of victim family

In our evaluation session on the way from Balakot to Faisalabad (10 hours traveling time) at lunch, we found following benefits in this method.

Relief reached to the right deserving victims.
Assessed present and future relief need.
Developed base for concerning relations.
Provided support to the handicap people.
Provided support to the old persons.
Provided support to the people who feel shy to get support in queue.
Provided support to widows(lost their husbands in earthquake).

Victims receiving their relief at different distribution places.

	Ali lost his right hand all fingers in earthquake; he received regularly dressing for 4 days from AIM’s medical camp.
	Woman(Zanib Bibi),lost her whole family.She is sharing our loss with AIM member and repeatedly requesting forgiveness from God.

People comments about our services and material.

1. Quilts:

These are according to need and coming season.

2. Food commodities:

It is good for us; we can use them without cooking.

3. Medicine and medical services:

In our medical team, two ladies are present and in our selected there are/were medical camps but lack female

staff so, according to the culture and tradition, man cannot allow their woman to get services

from male doctors. Our medical camp received large number of women because women and

children suffered more because they were at home on October 8. We have also physiotherapist in our medical team, because mostly people have fractures in legs, arms and some have pressure on backbone. Lot of people received physiotherapy services.

Moral support for this camp:

1. People present around our base camp were so, friendly with us they offered us their services and also interested that they can do cooking for AIM team but, we kept them with us not for the services but for the sake of condolences and moral support.

	Earthquake victims became friendly with AIM’s members and provided their services voluntarily for AIM’s relief work at our base camp in Balakot.
	Mr.Ikram Ullah Khan Administrator Special Relief Commission Balakot N.W.F.P Visited the AIM’s camp and inquired the work on going and also find any problem during our work.

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