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Focus Humanitarian Assistants

for Pakistan Chitral completed 3 days training for volunteers group to overcome

any calamity in flash flood.

 

 

 

CHITRAL: Focus Humanitarian Assistant for Pakistan Chitral

branch arranged a three days long training for volunteers group as well as for

local community to train them how to recovered injured persons safely from

debris and dead bodies in flash flood. ICIMOD financially supported Focus for

these activities. The volunteers groups were trained how to remove debris in

case of flash flood and to recover injured person safely without any more

harming them and dead bodies if any. Their volunteers groups demonstrated of

desk cutting, wall cutting and iron cutting in case of collapse of any heavy

building to recover the people inside the building with a safe ways. They also

used of snake eye camera in their demonstration to search human body inside of

a collapsed building. They physically and practically demonstrated carrying of

any injured person or dead body across the river with the help of a rope where

there is no bridge or any other source of transportation. These training of 7

days and finally of 3 days was a part to develop awareness among the local

community regarding response in case of any naturally disaster, calamity like flash

flood, earthquake and flood or fire.

 

 

 

These search

and rescue teams comprising over male and female volunteers sophisticatedly exhibited

of giving first aid to injured persons in case of any emergency. All these activities

were done at Reshun canal where focus volunteers traveled with the help of a rope

across the river and shifted injured persons and dead bodies if any to train and

aware the local community how to overcome these crises in such circumstances. Amir

Muhammad program Manager supervising all these activities. In this connection a

simple but prompt function was also held at Reshun to pay tribute to local volunteers

and community especially women folk. Dr. Karim of AKHS was chief guest on the on

the occasion while the ceremony was presided over by Bubul Aman Vice president of

BLSO. The speakers stressed upon the local community to must benefited from such

fruitful trainings and workshop to overcome any critical situation in case of natural

calamity. They said that this is responsibility of every human being to save the

others, which is the real destination and main objective of Islamic teachings.

Amir Muhammad Program Manager said that focus Chitral have trained

and prepared a group of 19000 both male and female. In 47 Clusters. He said

disaster management awareness is must for citizens to use their skill in case

of disaster. He said majority of inured people were died at tremendous

earthquake at Kashmir due to unawareness and negligence of local community. Hamiduddin

member of Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) said that main objectives of

creation of human being are to save and support other people when they need their

help. The speakers emphasized on local community to must train and be aware

regarding participating in any search and rescue activates. A large number of

male and women folk participated the ceremony.

 

 

 

G.H. Farooqi PO Box No. 50 GPO

Chitral Pakistan phone No. + 92 943 302295, 414418, 03025989602

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