Pakistan has been suffering from devastating floods that affected the entire country in July and August monsoon rains. The flood has been the worst flood disaster in 80 years in Pakistan and it left a high number of casualties.
20 million people are affected
More than 1 million houses collapsed
2000 people died
Thousands of acres farmlands destroyed
According to the UN OCHA’s spokesperson Maurizio Giuliano, the Pakistani flood have been worse than the 2004 tsunami and 2010 Haiti earthquake that affected 5 million and 3 million people respectively.
Kimse Yok Mu is in the Disaster Region
Kimse Yok Mu has offered immediate humanitarian aid to the survivors such as clean drinking water, cleaning supplies, food and health screening. A team of volunteer doctors and psychologists of Kimse Yok Mu went to the region right after the floods with the president of Kimse Yok Mu, Mehmet Ozkara, to examine the region.
The volunteer doctors served to the survivors in coordination with Pakistabi Red Crescent and started treatments.
Primarily, donation worth $ 450,000 in cash wired to the Pakistan to provide 110 tones of food packets and 1500 7-kg-bottled-water to 5500 households in total.
2 Iftar Tents in 2 Areas
In Peshawar, the capital of the province Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s, and Lahore, the capital of province Punjab, 2 iftar tents served hot meals for 2400 people daily in total for the holy month of Ramadan. The tents worked 2 times everyday starting on August 16 and after August 25, the number of meals per person was raised to 2200. So, all in all, approximately 50,000 meals were offered to the survivors. Hot meals are still in the survivors service.
In Kind Donations Sent by Cargo Jet and Trains
Kimse Yok Mu sent a cargo jet filled with 43 tones of humanitarian assistance on August 27. MNG Kargo made the cargo jet reach Pakistan free of charge, which had 650 insulated tents, 500 camp beds, 2000 rugs, 6000 blankets, 100 electricity generator, radio set, 13,000 water cleaning chlorine tablets and 180 food packets.
By the official decision taken on August 18, Kimse Yok Mu will send the donations to Pakistan by train every 10-14 days after the cargo jet.
The first train, Loyalty Train, headed Pakistan on September 8 and the second one set off on September 24. First train had humanitarian aid which included food and cleaning supplies, clothing, shoes, fabric and water cleaning machines and medicine worth approximately 1 million dollars and the second had 1000 tent houses. Trains reach Islamabad, Pakistan in 10 days.
Development Projects in Pakistan
Kimse Yok Mu, now, works on medium and long-term development projects in Pakistan’s flood-affected areas. 3 tent cities are planned to be built in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Nowshera, Punjab’s Muzaffargarh and Sindh’s Khairpur, each of which will have 330 insulated tent houses. In the tent cities, there will be clinics, playgrounds, water reservoirs, houses of prayer and other public spaces.
These projects are going to be established by the Kimse Yok Mu office in Pakistan.
In Kind Donations To Be Sent By Train
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Food: Powdered milk for babies, biscuits/cookies, cooking oil, sugar, canned food, halva, jam, tea
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Garment: clothing, shoes,
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Household: Blankets, beds, sheet/duvet sets
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Medicine: Preventive medicine for cholera and other contagious diseases, antibiotics, serums, intestinal antiseptics, rash creams for babies
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Hygiene: soap, laundry and dish detergents, water cleaning machines, water cleaning tablets, diapers, sanitary pads, hand towels, toothbrushes and toothpaste
Cash donations are used for hot meals and food packages ,tents and immediate humanitarian aid materials.
You Can Donate
Online: At our website, click “Online donation” section and donate to “Pakistan Flood”
Wire Transfer: Choose the bank account you would like to donate in Foreign Campaign Account Numbers under “Bank Accounts” section.
Phone: For more information call +9 (0216) 44 44 593.
Tax Deduction is Available
Kimse Yok Mu is a charitable non-profit organization, thus, corporations’ all of in-kind donations of food, cleaning supplies and clothing are tax-deductable. (According to the Turkish Ministry of Finance decision on 03.21.2004)