Noori Visits Ayub Medical College

Relief Reaches Gilgit

Ayub Medical College's Flood Relief Campaign has now reached Gilgit. Mr. Shahid Awan (Finance Coordinator, Disaster Management Centre - ) and Mr. Mohammad Haneef (Office Boy, Disaster Management Centre - Office Boy) were sent along with three minitrucks (Shahzaor) with relief items to the flood stricken town of Gahkuch in Ghizer District (of Gilgit Division). The relief items are currently stocked at the Green Valley Hotel in Gahkuch.
Members of APPNE (Association of Pakistani Physicians of New England) are already on site to help distribute aid and to treat patients as well. Items sent to Gahkuch were:

• 100 School bags
• 200 Bags of Food
• 40 Sacks of Clothing Items, Shoes & Hygiene Kits  

Below are a few pictures of our volunteers loading the relief goods onto the trucks..

Meeting With Liaquat Ali Khan / Relief Reaches Kohistan

The Flood Relief Campaign has reached Kohistan after a productive meeting with Liaquat Ali Khan, President of The Rotary Club, Abbottabad. With his help as well as the help of DRIP (Disaster Relief By Irish & Pakistanis) over 100 Food Packages were sent to Kohistan.

To the Left : Volunteers for the Flood Relief Campaign, Ayub Medical College
 

To the Right : Mr. Liaqat Ali, President Rotary Club Abbottabad receiving list of food items from Dr. Noaman

Donations By Irish & Pakistanis (DRIP)

DRIP(Disaster Relief by Irish & Pakistanis) is an organization which was created after the devestating 2005 Earthquake. After the immediate response by Pakistanis and Irish it was decided that a platform should be setup by all these volunteers and thus DRIP was founded. DRIP represents all Pakistanis and Irish people working in this relief effort from Ireland.

We would like to take this oppurtunity to thanks Dr.Shahzad (General Secretary D.R.I.P.) for helping us tremendously in our Flood Relief Campaign. Not only have they contributed relief goods but have also donated Rs. 1 Lakh to our Donation Drive. We would like to thank:

Mr.Anis - Cork
Mr.Azad - Cork
Dr.Saleem Sharif - Cork
Dr.Imtiaz - Dublin
Dr.Nazia - Mllinghar
Mr. Aqeel & Waseem - Limerick
Mrs. Lubna - Clonmel
Dr.Anis - Portloise
Mrs. Javaria - Portloise
Volunteers From Castlebar

Another container will be organised from Dublin due to the overwhelming community contributions and donations from 6th to 8th September 2010. Thanks to all from DRIP for voluntarily coordinating and providing support for collection

Lucan Mosque Imam
Mr and Mrs Ali Asif
Mrs Saeera Javed
Mr.Khalil Qazi - Iqra Academy
Ongar Mosque Imam
Dr.Afzal Khalid - India House - Lucan
Dr.Ahmad Jammal - Ashbourne and Drogheda
Dr.Rao Sallahudin - Blancherdstown
Mr.Khalid - Clonee
Mr.Ehtisham - Clonee
Mrs. Maida Naqvi - Rathfarnam
Mr.Asher - Fashion City Dublin

And to charities like Chernnobyl

For more information on DRIP log onto http://www.dripireland.org

Ali Hamza & Ali Noor (Noori) Launch "Khayal Rakhna"

Noori's call for support of the flood victims began at Ayub Medical College on September 2nd, 2010. Ali Hamza and Ali Noor (of Noori) are launching an awareness and mobilization organization by the name of "Khayal Rakhna". The name itself explains the aspirations of this organization which is TO TAKE CARE OF OUR COUNTRY...PAKISTAN. After visiting the surrounding primary schools, Noori spoke to the students of Ayub Medical College and congratulated them on being extra-active in the relief efforts.

For more information log onto http://www.khayalrakhna.org/

Ali Hamza and Ali Noor of Noori Perfroming At The Launching Ceremony of Khayal Rakhna at Ayub Medical College in Abbottabad, Pakistan

Charsadda Medical Camp

Volunteers from Ayub Medical College apart of the Flood Relief Campaign paid a visit to the Hissar Camp in Charsadda on August 26th, 2010. First, second and third year students were sent out with questionaires to collect vital information from the flood affectees, while fourth, final year students and doctors concentrated on the large number of patients who were lined up. From what we saw, most flood affectees were suffering from skin infections and although scabies was rampant throughout the camp, insect bites were also dominant. There were also slight cases of conjuctivits in many patients.

Shangla Medical Camp

We volunteered to leave for Shangla on the 27^th of August 2010, at 9:15pm on behalf of the AMC Flood Relief Campaign.

We had two pickups fully loaded with a variety of food items.  After a 5 hour drive we reached Besham at around 2 am.  At Besham, the goods were transferred onto vans since the road condition was poor. As the road condition got worse we had to move the goods by foot for about 2-3 kilometers.

We reached the Village Karshaat around 10:30am. There we distributed the relief goods to 100 flood affected families.

Later, we continued our journey towards the Village of Shahpur. Once again we distributed goods for another 100 families of Shahpur. Attached is the list of all 200 families we served. The list was provided to us by the local Flood Relief Committee.

Despite all the hardships we managed to accomplish our goal, thanks to Allah’s Grace. And special thanks goes to the rest of the volunteers of the Ayub Medical College Flood Relief Campaign for dedicating their time and effort for arranging this donation drive.

Abdul Sattar Edhi Visits AMC

Ayub Medical College had the honour of having the famous philanthropist Abdul Sattar Edhi, NI visit us. As Head of the Edhi Foundation (together with his wife, Bilquis Edhi) they have received numerous awards including the Nishan-e-Imtiaz, the 1986 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Public Service, the Lenin Peace Prize and the Balzan Prize. Edhi spoke to the students and faculty about giving and helping the poor, which has been his life long mission. After giving a very emotional speech to the college he was directed towards the Flood Relief Campaign Warehouse where he was shown all the work which had been done up to date, including the collection of food items, water, clothing and shoes. Having Abdul Sattar Edhi visit us was a great motivational boost for all us and only made us want to work harder. We hope to see him again at AMC sometime soon.

Todd Shea Visits AMC

Todd Shea visiting our warehouse with Dr. Noaman Siddiqui at Ayub Medical College in Abbottabad. Volunteers were frantically sorting out donations which have been pouring in everyday from our students and faculty. For those who don't know Todd Shea is an American who came to volunteer in Pakistan after the 2005 Kashmir Earthquake, a disaster that killed over 80,000 people. As Ellick noted in the New York Times, “he never left.” Three years ago, Shea established a Charity Hospital in Chikar, Azad Kashmir called CDRS, or Comprehensive Disaster Relief Services, which provides quality healthcare services to the people in the remote and earthquake-affected areas in northwest Pakistan. Chikar is one of Pakistan’s poorest and most remote villages located about 25 miles from the Line of Control. Todd was a great inspriation to all the students and volunteers at AMC...many of us believe firmly now that if a person from halfway around the world can come and do this much for Pakistan, then surely we as Pakistanis can match it and if not do even more for our country.