Hyderabad Rain Emergency Relief

Torrential rain in Hyderabad and adjoining areas in Sindh, leaves a trail of tragedies, destruction & sufferings. Many have lost their lives and thousands are shelterless.

Activities:
Central Relief Coordinator, Mr. Nematullah Khan (Ex-City Nazim Karachi) has left for Hyderabad to supervise the relief operations. He accompanied a shipment of relief goods.

Cash donations are being collected through Relief Fund
• Medicine worth Rs. 200,000 (Two Lacs) have been dispatched to Tando Allah Yar.
• Al-Kidmat President Dr. Meraj ul Huda Siddiqi has sent a team of doctors and para-medical staff along with a mobile clinic to the affected areas.
• Volunteers of Al-Khimat Hyderabad are transferring the affected people to the safer places where food, shelter and other necessities are being provided to them.
• Central Relief Coordinator, Mr. Nematullah Khan (Ex-City Nazim Karachi) has left for Hyderabad to supervise the relief operations. He accompanied a shipment of relief goods.
• Secretary AlKhidmat Foundation Sindh Mr. Malik Naeem and Mr. Syed Maqbool Alam & Mr. Fawad Sherani of Community Relief Department along with a team of volunteers have also left for Hyderabad.

Al-Khidmat provides immediate services in disaster and calamities and is always first to reach at places where suffering humanity is in need of help Al-Khidmat is ready to take any kind of initiative to bring back happiness to the suffered and the poor.

• Bilal Colony (Affected Due to Drainage of Dirty Water): Relief projects worked out in Bilal Colony, which was dangerously affected due to drainage of dirty water.
  Medical facilities, clean water and ambulance for transferring patients were provided, 1,000 sufferers benefited through this project.
• Machar Colony (Affected by fire): Al-Khidmat provided food, clothes and other requirements of life in this area affected due to fire. 500 sufferers benefited through this emergency relief.
• Karachi and Interior Sindh (Affected by heavy rain): In July 2003 Karachi and places of Interior Sindh (Thatta, Badin & Tharparkar) were heavily damaged by torrential rain, and that was a great loss of precious lives and houses. Al-Khidmat worked for emergency relief in these critical circumstances. 50,000 people benefited through this project. Al-Khidmat spent Rs. 9 Million on this project.
  • 30 relief camps were setup in Karachi and interior Sindh provided shelter to 10,000 sufferers.
  • These sufferers stayed for almost a week and were provided with food, bedding, clothes and requirement of daily lives.
  • Plastic sheets were provided to protect homes from rain.
  • 40 fund raising camps were run in Karachi to collect donations and commodities.
  • Al-Khidmat helped in shifting the families to their homes and provided ration to 10,000 families.
  • Many teams moved from Karachi to Badin, Thatta and Tharparkar to provide facilities.
  • In this campaign, the kindhearted people supported Al-Khidmat by providing articles of daily use worth Rs. 7 million and Rs. 2 million in cash.
• GADAP (Cyclone affected area): Gadap was affected by thunderstorm in monsoon of 2003. Approximately 100 houses were destroyed and many precious lives were lost. Al-Khidmat played its key role in providing food, clothes, and other requirements of life. Al-Khidmat also provided ration to affected families.1,500 people benefited through these camps.
• GILGIT (Affected by earthquake): Al-Khidmat helped the sufferers by spending Rs.1,050,000. Total 5,000 sufferers benefited through this emergency relief.
• IRAN (Affected by earthquake): Fund raising camps were run in Karachi to collect donations and commodities. Al-Khidmat generated and contributed an amount of Rs.800,000 in this regard.