NGO Sungi - Sending Help to South Asia Quake Survivors

Uh, note to Typepad admin: I have no idea where my earlier draft went but this is the second and final time I'm writing this entry... Obviously 2005 has been a helluva year for natural & "other" disasters. My "other" category includes certain disasters that arguably are largely 'masculine-made' yet which could not be executed without varying levels of indifference, tolerance &/or support from some women. In the Americas right this moment meteorologists are monitoring "tropical depression #24" of the 2005 hurricane season; #24 is potentially another future tropical storm &/or hurricane currently dumping tons of rain on Jamaica and the Cayman Islands. I'm checking the Women Living Under Muslim Laws website for a variety of other issues, including their take on sending aid to South Asia quake survivors. (Whether Darfur, Malawi, Afghanistan, Iraq, Guatemala, the Gulf Coast or Kashmir, I prefer to think of people as survivors and not just victims, and those who sadly have not survived are now sheltered in the hand of God.) WLUML's website advises: "... Pakistani human rights organisations in the Joint Action Committee for Citizens Rights (JAC) have banded together for the relief work, with the NGO [nongovernmental (non-profit/non-lucrative) organisation] Sungi in the lead. Sungi has previous experience with relief work since they started with a flood relief programme some decades ago. The organizations in the JAC have long worked with local communities in the region of the earthquake and are thus able to access remote villages through social networks that are not available to the military and large donor organizations. ..." Makes sense to me; so, alongside other options you have, you may want to consider contributing to the JAC combined relief effort directly by sending funds to the Sungi NGO:

Sungi Development Foundation

www.sungi.org
US Dollar account no. 412-2
Branch Code: 0585
MCB Start Branch Abbotabad
Swift Code: MUCBPKKAA

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[CRUPDA]

Non-Government Organization - CRUPDA - Coastal Rural and Urban Poor Development Association: "Barguna is one of the remotest and deprived districts of the country. It is surrounded by Patuakhali, Jhalokathi and Pirogpur district and by Bay of Bengal. Most of its peoples are poor, illiterate and unemployed. The main earning sources are agriculture and fishing and the per capita income of the people is lower than that of the national level.

A group of people came forward to develop the living status of the coastal rural people. In view of developing the region in an organized manner we formed an organization titled “The Coastal Rural and Urban Poor Development Association (THE CRUPDA). It undertakes and implements different projects in order to create opportunities for Unemployed Youths, Poor and Destitute men, women and children and to provide Health facilities including Nutrition, Sanitation, Education, Housing, Income Generating Activities, Agriculture development, Disester Management Activities. Beside this we plan inorder to make the people aware of family planning, environmental pollution for socio-economic development of the people in particular and of the country as a whole."

[DR AMANATULLAH]

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I m GP & PSYCHIATRIST, working in rural
areas of Pakistan.
I have done also MSc(Psychology).I want to affiliate with your org:
DR AMANATULLAH KHAN.
ELAJ CLINIC,BUKERA ROAD,
TANDOALLAHYAR.70010,SINDH.
PAKISTAN.
[email protected]

[DR AMANATULLAH]

Put my name on your regular mailing list,
I m GP & PSYCHIATRIST, working in rural
areas of Pakistan.
I have done also MSc(Psychology).I want to affiliation with your org:.
DR AMANATULLAH KHAN.
ELAJ CLINIC,BUKERA ROAD,
TANDOALLAHYAR.70010,SINDH.
PAKISTAN.
[email protected]