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Aid Groups Issue Emergency Appeal As Winter Descends On Kashmir Quake Victims
Six of the largest international aid groups working in quake-hit Pakistan issued an emergency appeal Thursday for more funding, warning of a "second wave of deaths" as winter approached. The appeal was made ahead of a conference of donors in the capital Islamabad on Saturday to raise money to help Pakistan recover in the aftermath of the October 8 quake, which killed nearly 74,000 people and made three million homeless. UN and Pakistani agencies, the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank estimate the recovery will cost 5.2 billion dollars, only about half of which has been pledged. "The onset of winter... is likely to result in a second wave of deaths," the International Rescue Committee, Catholic Relief Services, World Vision, Save the Children, CARE International in Pakistan and Mercy Corps said. "A second disaster is now set to unfold. How many die this time is up to us," they said in a joint statement. Shelter is the most pressing need, with the first snows already falling in the parts of northern Pakistan affected by the quake. "The window for responding to the crisis is closing rapidly, but major gaps in funding may leave thousands of families without adequate shelter and resources to survive the winter," the groups said. "We have the chance to save thousands of lives, but the world community must act now," Mercy Corps' emergency spokeswoman Cassandra Nelson said. Nelson said the aid groups had the capacity to respond, "but we are under-funded and under-equipped." All rights reserved. � 2005 Agence France-Presse. Sections of the information displayed on this page (dispatches, photographs, logos) are protected by intellectual property rights owned by Agence France-Presse. As a consequence, you may not copy, reproduce, modify, transmit, publish, display or in any way commercially exploit any of the content of this section without the prior written consent of Agence France-Presse. Related Links TerraDaily Search TerraDaily Subscribe To TerraDaily Express 
Pakistan Quake Victims Taught To Build Shelter From Ruins
Muzaffarabad, Pakistan (AFP) Nov 14, 2005Thirty thousand quake-hit families in Pakistan's wintry mountains are being taught to build shelter from the rubble of their homes under a new United Nations programme launched Monday.
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