Pakistan
Pakistan : etting up a mobile care unit in Pakistan following the earthquake of October 200
After providing initial humanitarian aid to the victims of the earthquake of 8 October 2005 in Pakistan, the Carrefour International Foundation, at the request of the NGO Friendship, helped to create a mobile unit to provide first aid to the worst affected regions.
Some 3,650,905 people were affected, and most of the region’s infrastructure was destroyed (schools, offices, roads, hospitals, hotels and frontier posts).
The aid effort began in June 2006 and will last for three years.
The mission of this NGO, first set up in Bangladesh, involves helping the poorest, most disadvantaged communities.
The project meets the most urgent needs and is adapted to the geographical situation in the country (mountainous regions where the road networks, electricity and sanitary facilities were destroyed).
The mobile unit has enabled them to meet the need for emergency aid and to support the reorganization of facilities, roads, electricity and water, and to prepare locals to take over from international teams of voluntary workers who officially left the country on 31 March 2006.
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Help with reconstruction |
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Pakistan |
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2006-2008 |
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Friendship |
- 3 650 905
persons helped
- Budget:
203 390 €
- Time of project
2006-2008
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