Donations worth Rs25m for flood victims
Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry pledged donations worth Rs25 million for flood victims.
KARACHI:
Donations worth Rs25 million were pledged for flood victims on the first day of relief operations initiated by the Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI).
FPCCI President Sultan Chawla is hopeful that the organisation will collect the same amount each day. All members of the organisation will contribute at least Rs100,000 for the cause. He hoped that they will contribute even more and asked them to contribute to the fund wholeheartedly.
The FPCCI leadership decided in a meeting on Wednesday to form a central committee to oversee relief operations from fund collections for the rehabilitation of flood-affected people. Four other committees will also be formed in all four provinces.
The scale of the devastation due to the flood is enormous and people from all walks of life need to pool their resources to help their countrymen, according to Chawla.
“Despite all our efforts we think we can’t collect the funds needed to rehabilitate over 10 to 14 million people,” he said, adding that the country needed over Rs2 trillion to support the flood-affected population.
“We need to transparently complete all our operations to uphold the image of FPCCI among the people we live with,” stressed Chawla.
The participants were told that Dera Gazi Khan had been badly affected by the floods and most of it was inundated with flood water. They were asked for medicines for the city to cure diseases like malaria, gastroenteritis and skin rashes which were increasing alarmingly in the aftermath of the floods.
They were also informed that media coverage of D G Khan was limited due to the ongoing military operation in the area.
Leading businessman Tariq Saeed said the FPCCI should conduct regular meetings to smoothly run relief operations for the flood victims. He stressed that the FPCCI should prioritise the list of items that the victims needed badly and suggested that drinking water be sent in first to the affected areas where water-borne diseases were expected to break out due to unclean water.
Saeed also said that the FPCCI leadership needed to visit the affected areas to evaluate the nature of disaster.
A businesswoman from Islamabad said that she was working with the NGOs which had earlier worked after the earthquake of 2005, and they have enough experience to deal with natural disasters.
Businessmen also spoke of the need to dispatch a doctors’ team with tents to help the helpless people along with cash money to rebuild their houses, especially of those who lost their family members.
Published in The Express Tribune, August 12th, 2010.
Donations worth Rs25 million were pledged for flood victims on the first day of relief operations initiated by the Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI).
FPCCI President Sultan Chawla is hopeful that the organisation will collect the same amount each day. All members of the organisation will contribute at least Rs100,000 for the cause. He hoped that they will contribute even more and asked them to contribute to the fund wholeheartedly.
The FPCCI leadership decided in a meeting on Wednesday to form a central committee to oversee relief operations from fund collections for the rehabilitation of flood-affected people. Four other committees will also be formed in all four provinces.
The scale of the devastation due to the flood is enormous and people from all walks of life need to pool their resources to help their countrymen, according to Chawla.
“Despite all our efforts we think we can’t collect the funds needed to rehabilitate over 10 to 14 million people,” he said, adding that the country needed over Rs2 trillion to support the flood-affected population.
“We need to transparently complete all our operations to uphold the image of FPCCI among the people we live with,” stressed Chawla.
The participants were told that Dera Gazi Khan had been badly affected by the floods and most of it was inundated with flood water. They were asked for medicines for the city to cure diseases like malaria, gastroenteritis and skin rashes which were increasing alarmingly in the aftermath of the floods.
They were also informed that media coverage of D G Khan was limited due to the ongoing military operation in the area.
Leading businessman Tariq Saeed said the FPCCI should conduct regular meetings to smoothly run relief operations for the flood victims. He stressed that the FPCCI should prioritise the list of items that the victims needed badly and suggested that drinking water be sent in first to the affected areas where water-borne diseases were expected to break out due to unclean water.
Saeed also said that the FPCCI leadership needed to visit the affected areas to evaluate the nature of disaster.
A businesswoman from Islamabad said that she was working with the NGOs which had earlier worked after the earthquake of 2005, and they have enough experience to deal with natural disasters.
Businessmen also spoke of the need to dispatch a doctors’ team with tents to help the helpless people along with cash money to rebuild their houses, especially of those who lost their family members.
Published in The Express Tribune, August 12th, 2010.