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HANDSHead Office:140 C- Block II, PECHS, Karachi, Pakistan

Tel: 021-34532804, 021-34527698, Fax: 021-34559252Email: [email protected],Website: www.hands.org.pk

HANDS VISIONHealthy, Educated & prosperous

Pakistan

MISSION

HANDS mission is to promote basic health, primary education, income generation

opportunities and development of institutions to empower the underprivileged

communities.

HANDS DISTRICT UMERKOT

HANDS UMERKOT TEAM

HANDS Umerkot team comprised of 75 energetic members team able to work any time, every where…..

HAVE: Best ever Leadership Strong Health team with female support Strong Mobilization team Disaster Rescue team 100 volunteers 350 community health workers (females)

Umerkot Profile

District Umerkot is located in Sindh Province, the second largest province of Pakistan in terms of Population.

Total Population of the district Umerkot is approximately 01 Million.

The district is geographically divided into two parts;

1) The Irrigated north-west and

2) Arid/desert portion in the north, east and south.

It is administratively divided into four Talukas.

Talukas are further administratively subdivided into Union Council(UC).

District Umerkot is divided into 27 UC’s, each UC has average population of 26000-30000 and usually population of each UC is served by one government Primary level health care facility.

Umerkot Profile cont………….

The catchment population of public health facility is served by outreach community based Lady Health Workers (LHW).

The literacy rate of the district is 31.5 % and female literacy is 24.6%.

45% Population is uncovered from Lady Health Workers (LHW).

Umerkot Profile cont……….

During Monsoon season 2011 heavy rains started from 9th August 2011 and as a result low lying areas are inundated…..

Large number of people displaced from their homes and under the sky without shelters moved to safer and higher places…..

Rain Fall

All four Taluka's affected directly from rain or indirectly from flooded water

Taluka Pithoro and Taluka Samaro still getting water from Sanghar and Mirpurkhas that should create again worst situation of affected area.

Affective Area’s

Losses

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• Human Lives 49

• Livestock 167432

• Goat, Sheep, Buffalo, Donkey and Cattle

• Crops 95% 160745 Acers

• House Fully Damaged 84474

• House Partially Damaged 77076

• School 552

• Infrastructure of Roads have also been damaged

HANDS Rescue Response • HANDS Rescue Team worked from 8th September

2011, and during early rescue operation about more than 800 families rescued from Taluka Samaro, Kunri, Pithoro and Umerkot.

HANDS Response

• Rescued families by vehicle support, shifted towards safe and higher places of District Umerkot.

HANDS Response

HANDS Food Distribution

• During early emergency situation, HANDS team provided cooked food to 2000 IDP families.

HANDS Response

• Along with this HANDS Team also distributed the 370 bags of Rashion to the 370 families.

HANDS Response

Drinking Water

HANDS SHELTER PROVISION• The HANDS team started the quick relief activities and

distributed the 200 Plastic Sheets among 200 Families/IDPs during rain present on the sand dunes without any shelter under the open sky.

HANDS Response

HANDS SHELTER PROVISION In the initial days HANDS team is the first in Umerkot who installed

200 tents at Nahunta and Cheel Band 100 of each tent villages, where daily medical health facilities, water and food bags also provided.

HANDS Response

HANDS SHELTER PROVISION• In the next phase HANDS through their resource mobilization

got 2000 tents, 4000 plastic sheets and 2000 families NFI bags from UNHCR….

HANDS Response

HANDS SHELTER PROVISION• 28 Tent villages formed at different areas of all four Taluka’s

of District Umerkot….

HANDS Response

HANDS SHELTER PROVISION

HANDS Response

S #

Place of distributionNo of

fam.

No of

ind.

Distribution items

District Taluka UC VillageTent

sNFI'

s

1 Umerkot Kunri Talhi Noheto 210 1164 210 210

2 Umerkot Umerkot Faqeer Abdullah Cheel Band 70 590 70 70

3 Umerkot Umerkot Faqeer Abdullah Janhero 225 1465 225 225

4 Umerkot Samaro Samaro Road Ismail Bhurgari 110 610 110 110

5 Umerkot Umerkot Gharibabad Chchro Road 50 305 50 50

6 Umerkot Pithoro Pithoro Bacha Band 100 655 100 100

7 Umerkot Umerkot Gharibabad Shiv Gee Mandar 100 855 100 100

8 Umerkot Umerkot Atta Muhammd Pali Raja Rasti 60 350 60 60

9 Umerkot Kunri Nabisar Rahemore 60 390 60 60

10 Umerkot Samaro Araro Bhurgari Araro Bhurgari 100 655 100 100


HANDS Response

S #


fam.

No of

ind.

Distribution items


sNFI'

s

11 Umerkot Pithoro Shadi Pali Inaam Mangrio 100 650 100 100

12 Umerkot Samaro Samaro Ghulam Hyder Kapri 70 440 70 70

13 Umerkot Samaro Samaro Ghulam Muhammad Kapri 70 470 70 70

14 Umerkot Kunri Nabisar Nabisar 30 195 30 30

15 Umerkot Kunri Sher Khan Chandio Mir Mori 50 344 50 50

16 Umerkot Umerkot Faqeer Abdullah Usman Shahani 45 275 45 45

17 Umerkot Samaro Satariyon Basheer Noheri 50 347 50 50

18 Umerkot Kunri Talhi Haroon Memon 30 187 30 30

19 Umerkot Pithoro Shah Mardan Shah Kamal Din Arisar 50 342 50 50

20 Umerkot Samaro Padhario Babu Abdul Ghafoor 50 366 50 50


HANDS Response

S #


fam.

No of

ind.

Distribution items


sNFI'

s

21 Umerkot Pithoro Pithoro Ilam Din Araen 50 323 50 50

22 Umerkot Samaro Samaro Road Asghar Shah 50 352 50 50

23 Umerkot Samaro Samaro Road Ghulam Rasool Dhonkaee 60 345 60 60

24 Umerkot Kunri Nabisar Nabisar 50 326 50 50

25 Umerkot Kunri Sher Khan Chandio Darelo 50 356 50 50

26 Umerkot Pithoro Shadi Pali Bhomon Kolhi 50 314 50 50

27 Umerkot Umerkot Dhoronaro Kiroli Khaskheli 36 285 36 36

28 Umerkot Umerkot Gharibabad Kohli Darho 20 105 20 20

19961306

1 1996 1996

HANDS SHELTER PROVISION• In Taluka Samaro, Kunri and Pithoro there is about all the area

is under water and IDPs are moved either out of Taluka or at the higher places on the roads, so installing tents at there not possible…

• In these places Plastic sheets distributed…

• Kunri- Samaro Road

• Kunri- James Abad Road

• Samaro James Abad Road

• Umerkot- Samaro Road

• Samaro- Bach band Road

HANDS Response

HANDS Health and Nutrition Services • HANDS Mobile Medical teams are working from initial days.

• Initially in August 2011, team worked in affected areas of District Umerkot and Mirpurkhas

• As September session of monsoon hit the Umerkot, Emergency Medical Relief services also started at Umerkot

HANDS Response

HANDS Health and Nutrition Services • 43 Medical camps were organized for rain affected.

• 4250 patients treated.

• 350 pregnant ladies got Antenatal Checkups.

• 1916 children got deworming medicines.

• 2000 ORS sachet distributed among affected families having under 5 children.

• 200 Safe Delivery Kits distributed in full term pregnant ladies.

• Nutrition assessment of children done in camps and 97 children got one month dose of plumpy nuts and high energy biscuits.

HANDS Response

• Medical team also gave 26 health awareness sessions to the 148 families on WASH and Health awareness especially during flood session techniques in which 754 participants were there.

HANDS Response

HANDS with WHO opened 03 Diarrhea treatment centers (DTC):

• District Tharparkar at THQ HOSPITAL Nagarparkar

• District Umerkot at THQ HOSPITAL Kunri

• In District Mirpurkhas at DHQ Hospital Mirpurkhas……..

HANDS Health Intervention

HANDS with WHO opened 04 ARI treatment centers (DTC):

• District Umerkot at DHQ HOSPITAL Umerkot

• District Tharparkar at Civil HOSPITAL Mithi

• In District Mirpurkhas at Civil Hospital Mirpurkhas & THQ Hospital Digri.


•With UNFPA & Shifa foundation HANDS distributed 3500 hygiene kits in the flood affected families of district Umerkot,

•Referral system strengthened by mobilizing the communities to refer more and more deliveries to be done at health facilities with incentives to communities as well as health care provider…


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