Emergency Relief Assistance to Flood Affected People
Donor: Donors and Philanthropists
Major Activities:
Yusra Askari: who led a private initiative to help gather funds to build 23 safe and comfortable one-room shelters for the flood-affected in the village of Shaukat Ali Jarwar, tehsil Shahdad Kot, district Qambar Shahdad Kot
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) provided Rs 12.75 million on 11 February 2011 to SRSO to construct 500 one-room shelters, benefiting 500 families or 3,500 individuals, in union council Joungal, district Jacobabad.
SRSO and People’s Primary Healthcare Initiative (PPHI) provided a mobile medical facility for the flood-affected to provide medical services to the sick, injured, and snake-bitten and preventive vaccination for different viral, bacterial, and other diseases.
SRSO & The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria (GFATM) worked on Malaria prevention last year in District Khairpur, and after the flood, it provided 1,750 mosquito nets to the flood-affected people, and priority was given to families with children younger than 10 years and pregnant women.
SRSO, with the support of the Pakistan Software Industry, distributed 1,007 utensils, 1,733 stitched dress shoes 1, 152, and two pedestal fans in relief camps in the Khairpur district.
“The WATAN” Organization supported flood affected by donating Rs. 8.00 million which was used to distribute the following NFI items: Buckets & mugs, Detergent soaps, Toilet soap, Towels & C. Roll, Cooking pots, Tea pots, Flour Mixing pots, wooden spoon, Plates, Steel glasses, Clothes (1000 male 500 female).
OMV Pakistan joined hands with SRSO to help out the flood-affected people in Khairpur and Sukkur. Through this partnership, SRSO provided food to 2,000 families which covers around 14,000 people. OMV also provided 60 tents (shelters) for 500 people. Furthermore, the organization has established an employee-contributed fund for flood-affected affected, and an amount of Rs. 700,000 was spent on special feeding requirements for the children of the affected families.
SRSO distributed wheelchairs and white sticks to the 11 disabled flood affected of District Khairpur with the support of Sindh Disability Forum.
Provided health support to 754 patients through the UCBPRP Sehat Salamat Package, the Government of Sindh, and SRSO’s pool account.
Distributed Food and Non-food items to more than 400 flood-affected families in Sukkur donated by Al Huda Welfare Centre, Germany.
SRSO through its senior female staff had run a “the clean camp campaign” in camps of Sukkur city accommodating 546 IDPs where cleaning materials including Finis, spray pumps, nail cutters, and combs were provided, and hygiene sessions were conducted to make the camp environment conducive and free of diseases.
SRSO distributed 10,000 stitched clothes to the flood-affected families in Khairpur, Sukkur, Shikarpur, Kashmore, Jacobabad, and Larkana districts. These clothes were stitched by the community members trained in the vocational centers established under the GoS Union Council-Based Poverty Reduction Program.