Dear
Kris,
Thank you for your concern.
FOSSFP
does not have disaster relief facilities. What we can do is intimate our ICT
communities around the globe to respond to such a call. The contact
information/addresses that I forwarded are of the Government of Pakistan (President’s
Disaster Relief Cell) in the capital Islamabad.
The second one is MKRF that is a large scale NGO operated by GEO Television-The
largest media group in Pakistan,
in fact most of the news on CNN and BBC is coming from GEO-TV.
From
last night to early this morning, relief teams have come in from USA, UK,
Japan, China, France,
Turkey, Middle
East with a large workforce of relief workers loaded with medicine,
tools, search equipment etc…… The teams are themselves responsible
for their inventories and relief workforce engagement, the people and
government of Pakistan
are trying to get the relief workers and aid to the cut off areas through heavy
loader helicopters from the US Military.
What we can
do is that if you forward us scanned copies of the receipts to bajwa@fossfp.org, we will present them on our
website and intimate the media as well official authorities about the funds
that were directed into Pakistan
by the international community with the names and contact details clearly mentioned
on the FOSSFP website.
The
rest, may God help us and our nation in this time of hardship. Amen!
Regards.
---------------------------
Fouad Riaz Bajwa
General Secretary
FOSSFP: Free &
Open Source Software Foundation of Pakistan ®
FOSSAC ' 2006 Secretariat
Punjab University College
of Information Technology
University of The Punjab, Allama Iqbal (Old)
Campus
The Mall, Lahore-54000, Pakistan
Phone #: 92 (042) 111-923-923 Ext: 27
Cell #: 92-333-4661290
e-mail: bajwa@fossfp.org
Lahore-Pakistan.
URL: www.fossfp.org
Ubuntu-Pakistan
URL: www.ubuntu-pk.org
-----------------------------
Disclaimer:
This e-mail message is intended for its recipient only. If you have received
this e-mail in error, please discard it. The author of this e- mail takes no
responsibility for the material, implicit or explicit.
From:
fossfpo@websouls04.futuresouls.com [mailto:fossfpo@websouls04.futuresouls.com] On Behalf Of Kris
Dev
Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005
12:10 PM
To: bajwa@fossfp.org
Cc: s-asia-it@lists.apnic.net;
Peter Burgess; Tod Bruning; Irfan Khan; Prof. Lutfor Rahman
Subject: Re: FOSSFP CALL FOR
EARTHQUAKE DISASTER RELIEF IN SOUTH ASIA -
DONATE NOW!
Dear Fouad,
Your idea is laudable.
But can we demand transparency and accountability in whatever is boeing done in
the name of Earthquake Disaster relief?
This is not to cast aspertions on whatever is being done or planned to be done.
But just a matter of caution, as a watchword.
Would the authorities concerned be open to put on the web all receipts and
payments for anyone to question and be responded to properly?
Kris Dev.
with peter Burgess,
Transparency and Accountability Network.
http://Tr-Ac-Net.blogspot.com
On 10/9/05, Fouad
Riaz Bajwa <bajwa@fossfp.org >
wrote:
URGENT INFORMATION EARTHQUAKE DISASTER RELIEF IN SOUTH
ASIA
Earthquake Relief Islamabad, Pakistan | 09 Oct, 2005
For further assistance, please visit FOSSFP: www.fossfp.org/
A massive earthquake on 08 October 2005 has killed thousands in South Asia
in the regions of Pakistan, Kashmir, Afghanistan
and India.
Tens of
thousands of survivors need your help. You can provide urgently needed
disaster relief supplies to children and families in crisis situations
directly to the Pakistani Government or other private relief organizations.
Your contribution to the Government of Pakistan will help provide things
like food, water, blankets, medicine, tents and other critically needed
items. Your gift will also enable World Vision to stay in disaster-affected
areas for the long haul, rebuilding communities and lives.
Donate now to help earthquake victims in South Asia!
1. Important Numbers:
a. Disaster Relief Cell, PM Secretariat +92-051-9206111
b. Crisis Managment Cell Comd 111 Bde +92-051-9267596
2. Please donate generously to the President's Relief Fund. Donations can be
made in all branches of State Bank of Pakistan, all treasury branches and
branches of National Bank of Pakistan, Habib Bank, United Bank, Muslim
Commercial Bank and Allied Bank.
3. Foreign Office:
Emergency Coordination Centre has been set up at Ministry of Foreign
Affairs: Phone: ++92-051-9207663, Fax: ++92-051-9224205-6
4. Pakistan
seeks assistance in the following areas: cargo helicopters,
engineering plant equipment (to open routes, for reconstruction of roads),
relief goods, food medicines, tents, blankets. Pakistan is self sufficient
in manpower enforcements.
Other Donation Methods:
1. MKRF EARTHQUAKE RELIEF FUND
Mir Khalil ur
Rahman Foundation (MKR Foundation)
UBL (United Bank Limited) Account No. 0102598-5
For International Transfer
Swift Code: (U N I L P K K A)
E-Mail: pukaar@mkrf.org
Website: http://www.mkrf.org
2. World Vision
Donate Online:
http://donate.wvus.org/OA_HTML/xxwvibeCCtpItmDspRte.jsp?section=10025&item=4
56&lid=pakistan_donatebutton&lpos=main
Website: http://www.worldvision.org/
About this Call:
----------------
This call has been initiated to the global ICT community by FOSSFP: Free and
Open Source Software Foundation of Pakistan in order to support humanitarian
relief efforts by the Government and Citizens of Pakistan. FOSSFP disaster
relief call enables the Free/Open Source Software and ICT Community
worldwide to respond quickly in the wake of natural disasters such as
earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, famine and tsunamis.
Regards.
---------------------------
Fouad Riaz Bajwa
General Secretary
FOSSFP: Free & Open Source Software Foundation of Pakistan R
FOSSAC ' 2006 Secretariat
Punjab University College
of Information Technology
University of The Punjab, Allama Iqbal (Old)
Campus
The Mall, Lahore-54000, Pakistan
Phone #: 92 (042) 111-923-923 Ext: 27
Cell #: 92-333-4661290
e-mail: bajwa@fossfp.org
Lahore-Pakistan.
URL: www.fossfp.org
Ubuntu-Pakistan
URL: www.ubuntu-pk.org
-----------------------------
Disclaimer:
This e-mail message is intended for its recipient only. If you have received
this e-mail in error, please discard it. The author of this e- mail takes no
responsibility for the material, implicit or explicit.
_______________________________________________
s-asia-it mailing list
s-asia-it@lists.apnic.net
http://mailman.apnic.net/mailman/listinfo/s-asia-it
