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FOCUS India, in collaboration with RAPID UK, an international search and rescue organisation, has trained national level Search & Rescue Team, to carry out surface rescue operations. It also has a national level Disaster Assessment & Response Team to carry out post-disaster needs assessment and to identify short and long term relief and ...
It bridges various AKDN initiatives, including Focus Humanitarian Assistance, and the Aga Khan Planning and Building Services. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The Agency has provided emergency aid to communities who have suffered the consequences of hurricanes , cyclones , avalanches , tsunamis , flooding , earthquakes and civil conflict. [ 5 ]
The Asia Foundation; The Citizens Foundation; The Dawood Foundation; The Fred Hollows Foundation; The Mountain Institute; The Nature Conservancy; The Salvation Army; The Terma Foundation; Trust for Democratic Education and Accountability; Trust for History, Arts and Architecture of Pakistan (THAAP)
The Edhi Foundation provides a number of services, emergency and non-emergency, to the general public. In addition to emergency medical services and private ambulance services, the organization also renders aid to women and children in need, assists with missing persons cases, and helps in covering burial and graveyard costs of unclaimed and unidentified bodies during times of disaster and ...
The scope of the devastation is still coming into focus. Roughly 750,000 farm animals have been killed in recent weeks, and initial damage estimates place economic losses above $10 billion.
Humanitarian Voucher Assistance. describes assistance provided in the form of a paper voucher or e-voucher that can be exchanged for a set value, quantity and/or type of goods or services, denominated either as a currency value (e.g., $15), a predetermined range of commodities (e.g., fruits and vegetables) or specific services (e.g., a medical ...
A U.S. Army soldier gives a young Pakistani Kashmiri girl a drink of water as they are airlifted from Muzaffarabad to Islamabad. The international response to the 2005 Kashmir earthquake was widespread and immediate, as many countries, international organizations and non-governmental organizations offered an abundance of relief aid to the affected regions − particularly Pakistan, which was ...
The paper also reports that Pakistan received the most aid out of all the countries in Southern Asia, with India just behind receiving $589 million in 2015. The biggest part of the aid to Pakistan was given for basic education. Out of the total $649 million, $371 million or 57.16 per cent was given for basic education. [1]