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Flood Relief Article # 3 : Help in a Box for Flood Relief

Sept 4th, 2010:

Yesterday my friend Asma and myself found ourselves driving around Park Towers looking for tent of Help in a box volunteer camp. We reached the place at about 3:30 pm. There were about 150 to 200 volunteers in the place. With Junoon's"jazba junoon" playing in the background, volunteers would collect a bag from the starting point and then move to the next table. Where volunteers would put in a bottle of water,then off to the next table where a volunteer would add "channas", next would be dates , next juice , next milk and then cookies/biscuits and then we would hand over the bag to the wrappers. This worked in a remarkable cycle of help.

One of the organizers Talal , told us that they / we pack ( organizers and volunteers) helped pack 2500 family food bags ( Sept 3rd, 2010) . And the bags woud be boxed and loaded into trucks given to them by the army and sent for distribution.

They have managed to deliver 23 trucks of food so far to the flood relief . Army has not charged them for the transportation of flood relief goods and trucks reach the flood afflicted destination with out being robbed.

This effort is purely voluntary and from today they will add an EID in a box component to the flood relief. A great way to help out if you can spare an hour or two any day, just stop by the camp and be a part of the team. It starts from 3:00pm till 5:30 pm. It is next to Mohatta Palace.

Thank you Asma for taking me to help in a box.

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Flood Relief Article # 3 : Help in a Box for Flood Relief