Thursday, October 13, 2005




I am sick of the horrors seen on TV .......... you have seen them ..... getting worse
and worse
and I am sure they are worse than the TV cameras can point at .......... for me I am supporting the work of Y Care based in the UK but active in those crucial areas because they call on the YMCA masses of humans like us who will give of their lives .......... for them it is practical help - getting in there and doing it ....... ....... for us it is ................


Y Care International has launched an emergency appeal following massive devastation caused by the earthquake that hit parts of Pakistan, India and Afghanistan on the morning of Saturday 8 October.
The earthquake – at 7.6 on the Richter scale thought to be the strongest in the region in a century – razed entire villages and towns to the ground. It is thought that at least 20,000 people have been killed in Pakistan alone, and tens of thousands are without shelter.
Donations to Y Care International’s emergency appeal will enable our partner, the global alliance ACT International, to ensure that aid is delivered to those in need. ACT members are already responding in Pakistan by assisting 1,600 families in North West Frontier Province and Azad Kashmir. Emergency food packages (including wheat flour, rice, pulses and cooking oil) and shelter kits are being distributed in the most affected areas of the provinces.
Y Care International’s partners are setting up medical camps in affected areas of Pakistan to assist approximately 100,000 people. They are also assessing needs in Afghanistan from their offices in Kabul and Jalalabad.
ACT members are working closely with international and local organisations and authorities to organise relief efforts which will address immediate needs, and determine what is needed most .......

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Find out more and donate online at www.ycare.org.uk/donate


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