Rescue and Relief operations in many remote villages are in an inferior position, as roads are covered in ruins and many affected areas remain unapproachable. Heavy equipment is needed to clear the roads and to rescue survivors buried under the earthquake wreckage, as many rescuers are still picking the rubble with pickaxes and their bare hands, looking for survivors.
Support for School Going Children
ISLAMABAD, Nov. 1 (Xinhuanet) -- At least 17,000 Pakistani children died
when their schools collapsed in the giant Oct. 8 earthquake and the trauma for
survivors is worse than after the Asian tsunami, according to local press
reports on Tuesday.
"We are estimating that at least 17,000 pupils were killed in schools, that's
the one number that we have some estimate on," UN Children's Fund executive
director Ann Veneman told reporters in Islamabad on Monday.
According to UNICEF estimates, some 1.6 million to 2.2 million children have
been affected by the earthquake, which has killed more than 55,000 people and
made 3.3 million homeless.
Veneman said that even those children who have survived were traumatized. "The
trauma that these children have experienced I think has been particularly even
worse than other tragedies like the tsunami, because so many of these kids
were in schools," she said. Enditem
Talon Fair Trade Workers Welfare Society help that affected children in
kohorri.Kohhari is 35 KM Distence from Muzzafra Abad, Azad Jamu Kashmir. TFT
supported for education project in Kohorri. TFT provide their Books, School
Bags and other Stationery.
Total (Minimum) 80,333+ 79,538
Earthquake Victims.
A devastating earthquake, measuring 7.6 on the
Richter scale, hit the northern part of Pakistan on the morning of 8th
October, 2005. Estimates of the quake's magnitude varied. The US Geological
Survey put the number at 7.6. With the death toll in the tens of thousands and
the casualties in the hundreds of thousands, it is a catastrophe on a scale
never before seen in this region.
We realize that our task does not end when the last victim has been laid to
rest, when the last casualties have been treated or when the last rescue team
has left. It will take months, even years, to rebuild the areas that have
suffered so much damage. The psychological scars will take even longer to
heal. The task is an ongoing one and all kinds of assistance will be required
for a long time to come. Join us and do your part to make a difference.
Location Deaths Injured
Pakistan 79,000+ 75,038
India 1,329 4,500
Afganistan 4 -
Casualties
