WER Sends Funds and Emergency Relief to Pakistan
CARLSBAD, CA -- World Emergency Relief’s global
family today released funds to launch our direct outreach
to quake victims, and is sending all-weather, winter-proofed
tents to house 3,000 people.
Carlsbad-based
WER and its UK affiliate have also sent $2.6 million (USD)
of antibiotics and enough basic medicines to care for 100,000
victims for a month.
The tents and basic medicines are scheduled to be delivered this weekend
by Air Pakistani from staging areas in the U.K.
WER
is also working with “Glasgow the Caring City” to
ship urgently needed supplies to Islamabad and Muzaffarabad. Leaders
from Glasgow’s Pakistani community, local mosque leaders
and members of the Scottish Parliament are working with
both GtCC and WER to deliver relief.
An
assessment team has already left Lahore to report specific local
quake needs to establish infrastructure
for secured delivery
of WER and GtCC resources. Key to WER’s assessment strategy
is that our resources be carefully coordinated with what
others are doing, to avoid waste, inappropriate distribution
and confusion.
WER’s tents and community medicines have been provided
by the U.K. charity Shelter Box, a frequent WER partner in other
disasters, including last year’s tsunami in Asia.
Joel
MacCollam, WER’s founder and CEO, points out “the
distribution of food and aid to survivors will be difficult.
Many mountain roads have been completely destroyed and
remote villages
now extremely isolated will also needing immediate assistance.
This will be a tough, slow global response for all of us
involved. ”
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