Sending a Life Box to Pakistan.
Support people affected by the floods in Pakistan. This is something most people can do, these are items we can pick up during a regular shopping trip, we have priced the boxes here at around £8 a box, if you can please send a box or get together with a group of friends to send a box or boxes. ”Pakistan International Airlines has offered its support to the humanitarian aid effort to ensure that basic food and medical supplies reach Pakistan. They are asking members of the public to send gift aid boxes which they will transport to Pakistan free of charge on the next available flight. Unprecedented floods in the history of Pakistan have caused displacement of at least 20 million men, women & children. These people are stranded without food, water and shelter. Our first priority must be to provide them food & water in the most efficient & expeditious manner possible.” 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.
Here is a list of what needs to be included: http://www.piac.com.pk/Flood_Relief/contents.html
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I am aware that lots of these foods are the kind of foods that many of us do not eat and would not recommend others eat, but I have thought lots about this and in my humble opinion, this is a time for people to eat many of these foods. Someone living in an extreme survival situation eating crisps, salty and sweet biscuits will be needing the calories and energy and burning it off straight away, these foods will be unlikely to cause problems to people starving who eat them for a few days. People who are not in these situation and eat these foods day in day out will face health problems from them but that isn’t the case here.
We have found a crisp/potato chips box is aprox. the best size – to save you spending ages with a ruler! And we have all asked for free boxes from supermarkets and they give them away. If you can’t find say 1 box of salty biscuits include two packets etc
Collection & Help Desks have been created at all stations in the PIA network to facilitate donors. PIA’s Emergency Response Centre is working 24/7 to maintain close liaison with all stations to streamline logistics.
Here are the collection points for the UK: http://www.piac.com.pk/flood_relief/Guidelines4UK.htm
Here is the international list inc. USA: http://www.piac.com.pk/Flood_Relief/ERP.htm
Call your local airport and ask for PIA and ask them the nearest drop off point. Also bear in mind many mosques are co-ordinating the boxes to the airports locally. We dropped our box off to a friend who took it to her mosque, which has also been offering collection locally and the boxes were taken to the airport in vans in bulk. Over 350 went off from this community alone. Well done everyone!
We all send love and reiki and prayers too.
with all love, thanks for reading and support to all those affected by the floods,
Grace and Linus xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
