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Flood aid is getting into Northern Pakistan
World Hope has just distributed a number of kits into some of the hardest hit areas.
Although we now need more funds, our relief effort has not stopped. Next weekend, 40 local volunteers are heading to an area called "Pier Paiey". This village has been completely washed away except for three government schools which have been left standing. In these schools there are 189 families, starving and desperate for help. The cost of 1 family kit is $60 AUS. *kit includes: shoes, blankets, buckets, water coolers, ladies garments, plates & cups, noodles and dry milk.
Please help us help these 189 families.
Flood Appeal Family Kit - $60
Please consider helping us. The people are desperate and in serious need. Help us and our local partners show love and provide family kits to these desperate people.
To do so just click on the donate button and follow the paypal prompts. Please include reference "PKFLOOD" with all donations. Alternatively you can make a direct deposit or send a cheque as detailed below.
A point of difference with World Hope Network, is that we have a permanent arm to our operations, with a Pakistani team in based in Lahore, extending into Peshawar. This fact combined with relief effort experience with the 2008 Pakistan earthquake in Balauchistan and aid in our 2009 relief effort into the Swat Valley, means that we can provide our team in Pakistan with emergency aid. Then they, combined with hundreds of local volunteers, are able to get the aid to where it is most needed with immediate effect.
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2010 Pakistan Floods
The worst floods in the region for 80 years have killed at least 1,600 people and affected about 14 million, with fears that diarrhoea and cholera will spread among the homeless. Officials say 650,000 homes have been destroyed, 1.4m acres (557,000 hectares) of crop land has been flooded across the country and more than 10,000 cows have perished. The immediate priorities for survivors are clean drinking water and medical assistance. Authorities are expecting the death toll to rise, as more of the heavy monsoon rains that have lashed the area for the past week have been forecast. Prime Minister Gilani called the flooding the worst in Pakistan's 63-year history. In an appearance on national television he appealed for international help.
"I would ask the international community to support and help Pakistan alleviate the sufferings of its flood-affected people."
Many aid agencies have launched appeals after thousands of people are left stranded in Pakistan by the worst floods there in 80 years...., World Hope Network are doing the same. World Hope's CEO will be travelling to Pakistan to join up with our Pakistan arm (World Hope Welfare Network) from August 11th, and together they will plan and prepare an immediate response to families who urgently need our help.
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World Hope team head to Normanton - July/Aug
We have just returned from the World Hope Aboriginal Mission to Normanton Qld. What a trip! We had 24 team members participate. Special thanks to our joint venture partner - GAiN who supplied all the clothes for the 'op shop'.
For the first time ever, under the leadership of a local Aboriginal elder, we were able to work with the Aboriginal community of Doomadgee. It was amazing! The youth and childrens program were a big hit. We put on a feed for the whole town and had nightime festivities in the local park. It was wonderful. We have been invited back already!
We also painted the front of the Normanton Hospital. Some nurses were so touched they even joined in after work. Another one of our first times this year is we made up fruit platters and as part of generousity day and we delivered morning tea to services such as regional health department, local council, ambulance, police, fire services, teachers at the state school etc. (we just wanted to say thank you for their service to their community)
This trip was wholeheartedly enjoyed and appreciated by everyone!
We encourage you to mark your diaries for next year. (second week of the NSW state school July holidays) The outback is spectacular and the trip is one you'll would never forget. More...
Typhoons Ketsana and Mirinae- Vietnam relief effort
On the day of our arrival for talks in Vietnam, Typhoon Ketsana made its landfall during the mid-afternoon 37 miles south of Danang on September 29th. Heavy rains and strong winds lashed a 400 kilometre long coastline with rainfall causing massive flood surges. Typhoon Ketsana killed 23 people during the first hours after landfall and has claimed at least 163 lives in Vietnam, 17 people missing and 616 people were injured.
Just over a month later on 2nd November, Vietnam suffered a second devastation from Typhoon Mirinae. These typhoons created flood levels unprecedented in 50 years. Together, there were more than 200 deaths, thousands of collapsed houses and many thousands of hectares of heavily damaged horticultural and rice fields. The mid-country provinces of Quang Tri, Da Nang, Quang Nam, QuangNgai, BinhDinh, Phu Yen and Kontum were the most seriously affected. We were fortunate enough to join up with an organisation call SOMEDCO, to enable a joint effort to get aid to th affected areas straight away! SOMEDCO (Socio Medical Committee) is an organization that is government recognised, which enables its volunteers to help the poor and needy through relief projects. By partnership between SOMEDCO and the government, SOMEDCO is able to introduce World Hope to Vietnam and gain access to restricted areas and cooperate with government.
Given the suffering and devastation of both typhoons, SOMEDCO and World Hope Network decided to partner together.
On return to Australia, World Hope put out an appeal for support and was able to raise $9,500 towards helping those affected by the typhoon in Vietnam!
A totally amazing and spectacular giving result. Through your generous donation and support, World Hope has been able to give aid in the form of cash, rice, noodles, household items and other basic needs to hundreds of families in Vietnam. Thank you to all of those people who gave. Many people have been helped and will continue to be helped!
In 2010, (September 22nd to October 5th), World Hope is hoping to take a team of 40 people upwards from Australia to participate in 3 projects. The first project is a medical team to assist the poor and needy with medical care and attention. The other two projects will see us build two homes for poor and needy people.
More news on the Typhoon relief effort and the upcoming projects to Vietnam will be posted soon.
Gorja medical Mission
World Hope participated in a Medical Mission to a recent war zone area. On 19th September, volunteers of the World Hope team travelled 4 hours to GOJRA, a city of Toba Tek Singh District in the Punjab province of Pakistan. The events of the day started with Pakistani songs of Praise, then prayer for the persecuted people. Many Pakistani people lined up in need of medical care. World Hope with the assistance of four nurses distributed medical aid. It was a day of great blessing. The local people were filled with joy and love as they witnessed merciful and compassionate acts.
SWAT relief effort
After the success and completion of the earthquake relief effort to Baluchistan Pakistan, World Hope initiated another relief effort to continue to provide ways of bringing HOPE to the Pakistani people in need through a second Swat Relief effort. On 10th July 2009, Volunteers of the World Hope team under the leadership of national president Arif Ashiq left for the very troubled and dangerous Swat Valley area (North West Frontier Province of Pakistan), where the Pakistani government began a military offensive to regain control of this region from the Taliban. The team visited different camps in the town of Murdan where they distributed aid relief to the community. Many are still suffering from the Taliban insurgency where education has been banned for girls and more than 170 schools have been bombed or torched along with other government-owned buildings. Thousands of people have left their homes, everything that they own to escape the battle of the Swat.
"Hope in Rwanda" Documentary
Our media team spent 10 days producing and directing a documentary in the 'Village of Hope' in Rwanda. The documentary followed the journey of 6 current NRL football players as they worked on homes for widows and orphans with 'Hope Rwanda'.
Throughout 2009 the documentary was broadcast on the FOX network in Australia. (and on their website)