IRC assisting Shangla earthquake affected families

PESHAWAR: The International Rescue Committee Pakistan is implementing relief assistance programme for 750 earthquake affected families of Shangla district in collaboration with Help in Need (HIN). 

The relief assistance programme is aimed at assisting the affected population in its struggle for survival and restoration after the massive earthquake of Badakhshan shook the northern terrains of Pakistan on October 26, 2015, said a communique.

To oversee the ongoing distribution activities under its relief assistance programme, the senior officials from the two NGOs visited the local communities in Shangla recently.

The IRC initiated its relief assistance programme in December 2015 in the two most affected union councils—Pirabad and Dheri—Shangla. Up till now, 615 families have been provided with food items i.e. wheat flour, cooking oil, pulses, non-food items inclusive of household utensils, hygiene kits and winterized tents, the press release said.

During the visits to the affected communities, officials from the IRC Pakistan and HIN sought their feedback to the continued relief activities as well as about the on-ground challenges they were facing through the path of rehabilitation.

A meeting between the IRC officials and the district government representatives was also held at District Headquarters Shangla, with Shangla Assistant Commissioner, Javaid Khan, and Tehsil Nazim, Tahir Khan, the statement said.