Appeal from AID-India

THOSE IN INDIA!         An Appeal from AID-India

AID-India has set up an Indo-Pak Earthquake Relief and Rehabilitation Fund. Those in India please contribute to AID-India and read the appeal below.  Being an independent organization registered in India, AID-India's fund is differently structered from AID's J&K fund. 

 Dear Friends,
As you know a huge earthquake of magnitude 7.6  struck Kashmir on 8th October. This earthquake  is bigger than the Gujarat earthquake. A large part of  Kashmir was badly affected. More than 40,000 families have perished.  Indian and Pakistan governments are working together to speed up relief operations. Many more people are injured and still buried under the debris.


We are in touch with a number of groups working on basic relief in both India and Pakistan. There is a lot of urgent help that is needed by these organizations. At this point, we are collecting funds from all over India and relief materials at Delhi. Volunteer doctors and medical supplies are needed to work in Kashmir. Warm clothing, tents and make-shift shelter arrangements are also needed urgently.

Because of the transportation problems involved - at this stage - we are NOT collecting releif materials in Chennai, Mumbai, etc. The relief materials are being collected only at Delhi. Please contact Anuj Grover - 0-98182-48459 - if you want to donate releif materials.


Relief materials will be sent to:

1.Kashmir, India: through the The Servants of the People Society which is starting relief work in Baramula. Their trucks are leaving from New Delhi on the 13th. Contact person: Dr Satya Paulji ( 0 98111 12705) or Mani (011-2642 7650).

2. Pakistan: through the Pakistan-India People's Forum for Peace & Democracy (PIPFPD) which is collecting releif supplies in Delhi and will be transporting it to Pakistan.

Apart from relief supplies, we also need a lot of funds. There are several organizations in both India and Pakistan that we are in touch with who require financial support for their relief and rehabilitation work. We have set up a special fund for this purpose in AID-INDIA: "Indo-Pak Earthquake Relief and Rehabilitation Fund".

We request you to donate generously and also to collect funds from your friends and colleagues for the Earthquake relief.

All donations can be made by cheques payable to "AID-INDIA" (and marked or with an attached letter for "Indo-Pak Earthquake Relief"

If you are in Delhi, please make a cheque to "AID-INDIA" and contact Anuj Grover: 0-98182-48459

In Bangalore, please make cheque to "AID-INDIA" and contact Aradhana: 0-98455-37269

If you are in Mumbai, please contact T. Shankar: 0-98208-06127

If you are in Chennai or anywhere else, please post your cheques to:

AID-INDIA
New No 34, II Floor, Rathenam Street
Gopalapuram, Chennai - 600086
Phone: 044-28350403, 94440-61033
email: aid.info@gmail.com


Please forward this information to other friends who would be interested in helping the earthquake victims.

Thanks.
Balaji Sampath
 
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