Floods 2010

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News & Information

General Information

As always, the first places to look for live information about events and updates in Pakistan include:

• Twitter tags: #pkflood OR #pkfloods or #helppakistan

Bloggers.pk, the main blog aggregator for Pakistan:

http://www.bloggers.pk

The Metroblogs:

• Metroblogging Islamabad
• Metroblogging Karachi
• Metroblogging Lahore

Governmental

• National Disaster Management Authority - Govt of Pakistan

Dedicated Information Collection

• One Response Pakistan (Has excellent maps)
• Pakistan Flood Incident Reporting System based on uShahidi
• CitizensofPakistan.org's Pakistan Floods 2010 Information and Relief Wiki (nice clean list of resources and ways to donate and help
• Wikipedia article on 2010 Pakistan Floods

Blog Posts

• Analysis of Relief & Donations related to Pakistan Floods 2010 by Anas Abbas (Note: Strong POV)

Resources

See main article at: Floods 2010 Resources (reproduced below)

This is a Floods 2010-Related Page Part of the Pakistan Crisis Wiki Main Page Summary | Expanded Situation Reports News & Information Resources Relief Goods Needed Donating Organizations (includes online campaign info) Corporate Response International Response Celebrity Response Volunteering (includes offline goods collection drives) Events (includes Fundraising Events, Crisis Camps, Informational and Press Conferences)

See also Earthquake 10-05 Resources for other useful resources. There's also major overlap with Floods 2010 Info and we should move all information resources to that section/article and leave only "real" resources and information on resources here.

Maps

Note: This section overlaps with Floods 2010 Info

• One Response Pakistan - Map Center
• Pakistan Flood Incident Reporting (Facebook page)
• Basic technical information overlaps with and should probably be moved to a section Floods 2010 Info or Floods 2010 Technical Information once we have more details.

People Finders

Note: This section overlaps with Floods 2010 Info

• Google: http://pakistan.person-finder.appspot.com/

• Sahana: http://pakistan.sahanafoundation.org
• Local Pakistani database: Awaited
• Does the uShahidi install(s) coming online do this?
• Red Cross Website for tracking missing people:

[Old links below; please confirm/update]

Direct link: http://www.familylinks.icrc.org/epi

Main site: http://www.icrc.org/home.nsf/home/webfamilylinks

Children at Risk

Anyone coming up?

Special Financial Facilities (Free Transfers, etc.)

• Western Union: http://www.westernunion.com/WUCOMWEB/staticMid.do?method=load&countryCode=US&languageCode=en&pagename=promoPakistan&pid=alphaPakpromo
• Paypal is waiving processing fees for donations <>

Travel Services for Volunteers and Donations

Air Freight/Shipping (International)

The US Consulate in Los Angeles has stated that PIA will provide free air freight for relief material. The details about PIA's free of cost shipment of donations can be grabbed at:

Send relief goods to flood affectees - free of cost

PIA has developed a Life Box which will provide high energy food & liquids to sustain a four member family / group for 2-3 days each:

http://www.piac.com.pk/Flood_Relief/index.htm and

and is working with Fakhr-e-Alam, the entertainer.

Shipping Documents

Please post details as you find them.

Overland Shipping (in Pakistan)

Please post details as you find them.

Visas

Please post details as you find them.

Flights

Please post details as you find them.

Rebuilding/Reconstruction

WebSites and Organizations

• Nayee Dharti on the Dharti wiki:

http://dharti.wikispaces.com/Nayee+Dharti+--+Rehabilitation

Facebook page at:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Nayee-Dharti-Sustainable-Flood-Rehabilitation/140560719315096

• Flood Rehabilitation Through Design

http://www.facebook.com/FRDpk

First meeting: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=137220096320970

• Association for the Development of Pakistan (ADP)'s Flood Redevelopment Fund:

http://developpakistan.org/flood-redevelopment-fund/

Articles, Op-Eds, Papers

• Pakistan floods: Preparing an early recovery plan, Raza Rumi in Pak Tea House, AUGUST 22, 2010, 7:29 PM:

http://pakteahouse.wordpress.com/2010/08/22/9877/

• Mohsin Hamid article <>

Background: Development, etc.

See: Floods 2010 Info#Development Resources

Legal, Tax, etc.

In Pakistan

• The National Disaster Management Authority has issued a blanket "Interim Permission to Humanitarian Organizations to Undertake Relief Work", with a couple of "conditions". The document laying this out can be seen at: http://ndma.gov.pk/Documents/flood_2010/misc/permission.pdf

In the US

• From the organizing around Earthquate Relief in 2005, there is this report:

"Guidance to Promote & Protect Charitable Giving: Earthquake & Hurricane Relief Efforts: Guidance to Promote & Protect Charitable Giving" is a document prepared by Muslim Advocates (http://www.muslimadvocates.org/), a charitable initiative of the National Association of Muslim Lawyers (NAML) (http://www.namlnet.org/):

http://www.muslimadvocates.org/docs/Quake-relief-guide.pdf

• Corporate-Focused Efforts, see: Corporate Response to Floods 2010

Canada Info

• According to Foreign Affairs Canada, "You can find out if a Canadian organization is a registered charity by checking the Canada Revenue Agency web site at http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/tax/charities/menu-e.html."

• Canadians can make donations to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies for South Asia Earthquake relief by going to the Red Cross donations website. Islamic Relief Canada is also a registered Canadian charity and is collecting relief fund. See Islamic Relief Canada website. Canadian donors can also receive tax receipts for their online donations.
• The Edhi foundation has a Canadian presence. See Edhi Foundation

Technical

See Crisis Commons#Global Technological Activism

Tips, Guidelines, etc.

• Tips on setting up an effective online fundraising campaign:

http://foundationcenter.org/pnd/tsn/tsn.jhtml?id=304800024

• http://helppakistanheal.wordpress.com/

Wiki Help

• Help on uploading files for the wiki

Needs

See main article at: Floods 2010 Requests

Donating

See main article at: Floods 2010 Donating

Volunteering

See main article at: Floods 2010 Volunteering
(includes Fundraising Events)