Rotary Shelter Boxes Reach Earthquake Stricken
Pakistan and India


Updated 17 November 2005

On 8th December 2005, a 7.6 magnitude earthquake struck Northern Pakistan & North West Indiain the Kashmir mountain area. 
 The devastation caused in this remote  area was deverstating and, yet again, the kindness and generosity of the British Public
was enormous.

The Rotary Club o f Heston & Isleworth raised  over £1,200 in one day from personal contributions and from the generosity of the Management, Staff and Customers at our local TESCO Osterley store.

100 % of the money collected was sent directly to the Rotary Emergency Shelterbox Co-ordination Centre in Cornwall which enabled additional Shelterboxes and Aquaboxes to be flown directly to the stricken areas where local Rotarians assisted in the hugely difficult distribution.

The following series of photographs were taken by Mark Pearson and are reproduced here with his kind permission

Huge Cargo Planes deliver the Shelterboxes

Displaced by the earthquake people wait for food, shelter and medicine in Bagh City, Azad Kashmir.

Kashmir men wait for a Shelterbox distribution near Ghaziabad village

The 32nd Battalion Kashmir Regiment assist in delivering Shelterboxes by mules

Mule trains were the only way to get the boxes to the remote villages

  

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