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DCPak.org Launched for South Asia Earthquake Response
This morning we launched www.dcpak.org, just a week following the devastating earthquake in South Asia that has left upwards of 40,00 people dead in Pakistan. We built the site for the local Washington DC based NGO, ImPak, to help keep people informed of the relief effort. The goal of the site is to provide timely information on how people can help existing relief organizations that are already on the ground.
It has a great list of places to donate and probably one of the best resource libraries listing other sites focused on the relief work and writing about the devistation.
Everyone interested in donating to help the millions of people that are now homeless should use the site to research the different organizations that are at work and how they can best help. Bilaal Ahmed, founder of the website, has already a tone of posts on the site. We will be writing on this more next week.
Yes, the site is build on Drupal/CivicSpace :-)
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Quake Facts
- 3 million homeless
- At least 75,000 injured
- Bagh 90% destroyed
- Muzaffarabad 80% destroyed
- Rawalakot 60% destroyed
More than 50,000 people were killed and as many as 3.3 million people were left homeless by the 7.6 magnitude earthquake that struck Pakistan-administered Kashmir on 8 October.
The situation remains critical as emergency teams struggle to cope with the sheer numbers of people injured, enormous logistical challenges, and deteriorating weather conditions.
Senior international aid officials have described the relief operation in Pakistan as the most difficult the world has ever known.
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Naeem,You are exactly right
Naeem,
You are exactly right – while early action in the imediate aftermath of the quake was essential, the vast devastation and logistical challenges that you mentioned, in combination with winter weather, has made a bad situation worse. I wish more people with on the ground connections were writing about the current situation so we could have a sense of what life is like now.
Thank you for posting these specific figures. Any links you could supply would be great so we can reference them.
--eric
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