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Photo: A small girl in Saryan Village. 25 of her classmates were killed during… Read the Journal...
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JAN—Feb | 2006 |
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Pakistan earthquake | 100 days after |
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“It’s 100 days since the earthquake struck and we’re still in full lifesaving mode as this crisis shows no sign of abating. We’ve been very lucky that the heavy snowfalls have only just struck and the challenge now is to reach vulnerable people before it’s too late,” says Craig Barry, Oxfam Australia’s acting Executive Director.
The difficult Himalayan terrain and rudimentary infrastructure have presented local authorities and relief agencies literally with a mountain to climb, with scores of villages entirely inaccessible by road.
The United Nation’s relief operation has been hampered by a lack of pledges to its earthquake appeal fund. Barely half of the funds requested – $300 million of the $549 million required – has materialised to date.
Oxfam’s warnings of a possible second humanitarian disaster still apply to the most vulnerable – children and the elderly – trying to shelter in flimsy tents in remote areas above the snowline where access to aid deliveries has been difficult.
Oxfam is involved in over 131 camps across the earthquake-hit region, providing water and sanitation facilities to more than 300,000 people so far. |
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EXTRAS |
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Kendon is currently in Pakistan. During morning class 25 school children from the small Village of Saryan lost their lives. Now the survivors have to recover from this devastating event. Please consider making a donation. Any amount will make a world of difference. |
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We couldn’t afford to lose another man over. The heavy seas meant that access to the Skipper was limited and I had already made two failed solo attempts at getting him on board. His dead weight hung free of the yacht, the concave hull slippery as an eel in the murky depths. Fully decked out in his foul weather apparel, Murdo was surprisingly heavy to lift above the waterline... |
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Man overboard |
