The
Relief Shelter Drive team is pleased to announce its
following partners who are assisting us in our efforts:
1. Association
for the Development of Pakistan is a US-based
non-profit charitable organization as determined by
Section 501(c)3 of the Internal Revenue Service, tax
ID# 20-0022158. Your gift to towards Association for
the Development of Pakistan for the Relief Shelter
Drive is tax-deductible to the fullest extent permitted
by U.S. law. To donate online from anywhere in the
world click
here.
2.
Nomad Volunteers: consisting of a loose group of international
vo1lunteers, self-named Nomad Volunteers has been
setting up shelter and engaging in distribution of
aid in the Bagh valley, and were the first to set
up a prototype of a bori shelter model in Surul
Valley(photos).
Our primarily contact within Nomad Volunteers was
Imran Saithna (who is now back in the UK) and Wesley
Olson (who is currently based out of Islamabad, although
is a volunteer here from LA). Nomad Volunteers’
primary source of funds has been through RSD, and
we continue to work with them to help distribute shelter
in areas they have been volunteering in. Through working
with this group, RSD has received publicity on bbc.com:
(read
article)
3. Group of individuals in Hong Kong, who ordered
250+ tents from their own funds more than three weeks
ago. These winterized tents will be arriving within
a week or so (they were being shipped) and will most
likely be distributed in lower plain regions to those
affected by the quake, as tents are still viable in
those areas (i.e. Islamabad/Pindi etc.)
4. Indus Earth –
is working in the two villages of Kaffal Garh and
Hans Chowki. RSD has gathered information of their
plans for reconstruction, and have collaborated with
them by purchasing tin sheets from RSD funds to distribute
to villagers in those particular villages
5 . EHD – RSD has been working heavily with
teams of EHD who have been doing needs’ assessments,
and RSD has been facilitating and/or purchasing different
forms of shelter as identified by these teams.
6 . An independent group of Architects, informally
known as JAAG Pakistan, have constructed a prototype
of a bori shelter model in Karachi. RSD partnered
with JAAG to replicate this prototype in the village
of Bela (near Balakot) in NWFP, and benefited and
passed on the knowledge
