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Support Our Emergency Response in Pakistan
Dear Friend of WorldWorks, Conflict-affected children and families in Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province are on the move. As many as 500,000 people are believed to have left their homes and rural villages as conflict has intensified. Hundreds of thousands more may flee the region in the coming days. | |
| They are arriving in host communities and temporary camps with nothing more than what they could carry over miles of unforgiving territory. WorldWorks is there with Save the Children, waiting to help meet children’s urgent needs as the humanitarian crisis in northwestern Pakistan unfolds. The agency has launched a broad relief effort to assist children and families who have left their homes and villages. Your support today for WorldWorks’s with Save the Children Pakistani Children in Crisis Appeal will help alleviate the harsh conditions greeting girls and boys displaced by the conflict. |  An internally displaced girl, fleeing military operations in Pakistan, holds her sibling at a camp. REUTERS/Adrees Latif, Courtesy www.alertnet.org |
Two Save the Children health teams arrived in the affected area on May 11 to help strengthen local health care services. Some 1,500 kits containing essential hygiene and household supplies are being sent to needy families. These efforts are part of Save the Children’s coordinated response in partnership with the government of the North West Frontier Province and local authorities. The goal is to reach some 50,000 children and adults. The agency also will work to provide protection and education programs for children and will make special efforts to reach separated children, women-headed households, families with children under 5, and families with an injured or ill family member. “People have, in many cases, left their homes with little more than the clothes on their backs, and there is a desperate need for food and other basic items. Basic health services are also badly over-stretched,” said Ned Olney, who heads Save the Children’s humanitarian response efforts globally. Your generous gift will help launch and sustain relief, and also help WorldWorks with Save the Children make displaced children feel more secure and safe in their unfamiliar environment. Save the Children knows the North West Frontier Province well. The agency has worked there since Pakistan’s catastrophic earthquake in 2005 – and has worked elsewhere in Pakistan for over 25 years. I am rushing this message to you because children are enduring great need and uncertainty. At times like this WorldWorks’s donors take quick action for children, and I thank you for sharing my great concern for them. Sincerely, Ray Muzamhindo Chairman of the Board WorldWorks Inc. |
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