Help Desperate Families from Pakistan Disasters

Dear Globalgiving Donor,

Thank you for donating to our project, Help Earthquake Survivors in Northern Pakistan. We appreciate the support we have received from you in the past, and we will continue to support those displaced by the earthquake in our Educational Learning Centers (as of May 2009 there were 302 people displaced by the earthquake in AIL Education Learning Centers, and 24 students displaced by the earthquake in AIL schools).

We have decided at this time to change the focus of our emergency services project to serve some of the up to 3 million people displaced by fighting in the Swat Valley. We are working to provide food and dishes to internally displaced people in two camps near Peshawar, Pakistan. We are also planning to provide sewing training to the women in these camps.

Once again, thank you for your support in the past. We hope that you can find it in your heart to help us alleviate a small portion of the suffering felt by those displaced by the conflict in Swat Valley.

AIL continues to support people who were displaced during the earthquakes in October 2005. During 2008 AIL taught sewing and literacy skills to 691 in three Women’s Learning Centers (WLC) in Northern Pakistan. One of these learning centers was established specifically for those affected by the earthquake. Many of the women coming to the WLC’s for sewing courses use these skills to help support their families.

During 2008 AIL also served 71 students displaced by the earthquakes in three schools.