Earthquake Human Interest Stories
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Giving Severely Malnourished Children a Chance
Muzaffarabad, Pakistan-administered Kashmir – Eighteen year-old Nagina is holding her daughter Sakeeba with utmost care. With a weight hardly reaching 2.1 kg when she was admitted for treatment, seven month-old Sakeeba was well below the standards for her
New School Sanitation Brings Positive Behaviours
Bagh, Pakistan-Administered Kashmir, October 2007 – As soon as their teacher calls for a short break in the morning’s session, all students in the class rush for the brand new UNICEF-sponsored water tank at the back of the school building.
Supporting Girls’ Education in Quake-affected Areas
Neelum Valley, Pakistan-administered Kashmir, September 2007 – “Freedom: birds should be free”, Ayeasha reads loudly from the black board. “Freedom: birds should be free”, repeats 11 year old Zobia, beaming at Ayesha.
Students in the Earthquake Zone Looking Forward to Their New BA School
Battagram, NWFP, 26 October 2007 – Sitting on colourful mats, in the shade of the tents provide by UNICEF for their school, Matta Nilishang primary school’s 226 students find it easier to study than just a few months ago
Protection centres aim to end the cycle of child labour in Pakistan quake zone
By Sandra BisinNORTH WEST FRONTIER PROVINCE, Pakistan, 9 October 2007 – For over seven months, eight-year-old Khairuddin and his brothers have been roaming the streets of Abbotabad in North West Frontier Province, collecting empty bottles from garbage.
Reaching the Unreached with Basic Health Services in Earthquake-Affected Areas
Allai Valley, North West Frontier Province - Her face remains impassive, as 25-year-old Habiba describes her life since the earthquake destroyed her home, taking the lives of her husband and their four year-old daughter.
Children Advocate for Better Sanitation in Earthquake-Affected Pakistan
Pakistan-administered Kashmir – “I wash my hands before and after eating. I also cut my nails every week and I brush my teeth every day. These things I’ve learnt from school and I teach my friends and my family to do the same”, beams Sanam, a 9 year-old
Child Protection Committees: Bring Children Back to School in Quake-Affected Communities
Battagram, North West Frontier Province – “I love studying Urdu and English. This way, I can communicate with people living outside of my community. I want to become a teacher!” Listening to 12 year-old Koshbath Bibi’s enthusiastic plans for the future
Ensuring Protective Environments for Quake Orphans
Muzaffarabad, Pakistan Administered Kashmir – 8 August 2007 - “Our dream is to have our own home and land so that no-one can tell us to move again”. Aqib, 12 years old, was displaced from his home, which was destroyed by the earthquake that hit Pakistan
Tackling Malnutrition with Supplementary Feeding Centres
Mansehra, North West Frontier Province, 4 May 2007 – At Attarshesha’s brand-new Supplementary Feeding Centre, Salma, 22 years old, checks Usman’s weight and height. The four-year-old boy stares at the Lady Health Visitor, his eyes wide open.
UNICEF Provides Transitional Shelter Schools in Remote Earthquake-Affected Areas
Azad Jammu and Kashmir, 28 April 2007: It is 1pm at Sarikarla Government Girls’ Primary School in the state of Azad Jammu and Kashmir in the North-East Pakistan, and the 54 students are actively participating in a mathematics class.
Bringing Out-of-School Children to School for the First Time
Maira Camp, Shangla, North West Frontier Province, 8 June 2007 – In the shade of his tented home at Maira Camp, Abdulla removes the gift paper wrapping the school prize with the utmost care.
Making education more enjoyable for children affected by quake
Battagram, 26 August, 2006: Eight year old, Parveen is getting used once again to life in her new tented classroom, following the end of summer holidays.
Heavy rains play havoc with children’s health in the earthquake affected areas
BATTAGRAM, Pakistan, 9 August 2006 – With the onset of the rainy season in the earthquake affected region of Pakistan, water-born diseases among children are on the increase.
Ensuring Equal Education for the Disabled
BAI BAJNA VILLAGE, Mansehra: Before the October 2005 earthquake, Zahid Humayun didn’t let his polio affliction stop him going to school.
Bringing Out-of-School Kids To School
BAI BAJNA VILLAGE, Mansehra, July 25 – Brothers Yaqub, 11, Zarin Nul, 8, and Sher Ali, 7, had occasionally wandered into a class at the local school in this high-altitude village in Pakistan’s mountainous north.
Spinal Injury Patient Finds New Meaning in Life
ISLAMABAD, July 18 - Sadia was on her first visit home to the Kashmiri town of Bagh since getting married three weeks earlier when the October 2005 earthquake struck. The walls of her sister’s house collapsed around Sadia as she tried to flee.
Elixir of Life a Cleaner Shade After UNICEF Repairs
MUZAFFARABAD: The fountain of life of Pakistan-Administered Kashmir’s main city is pumping out top-standard treated water at double its pre-earthquake capacity, following extensive repair and upgrade by UNICEF
Keeping Vigil on Villagers’ Health and Hygiene
MUZAFFARABAD - Firdaus, a student, stoops to enter the tented home of the Akhtar family –an igloo-shaped canvas and aluminium shelter in the ruins of Chela Bandi village in Pakistan-Administered Kashmir.
From the River to the Camp: Clean Water for the Landless
NARUL CAMP, Muzaffarabad, June 22 – The Neelum River swallowed Mohammad Aslam’s house, his three cows, his 50 goats, his dog. It swallowed his entire village and 55 people with it.
Winter Schools in Northern Pakistan
JABORI, Pakistan: Across northeast Pakistan’s valley floors, razed by the devastating October 8 earthquake, thousands of temporary tent schools supported by UNICEF are closing down for the long hot summer.
The Road to School
An ambitious recovery initiative to get 100% of school aged children, especially girls, back to school.
UNICEF-supplied water filters helping IDPs
More than 3,000 Nerox filters in IDP camps are helping earthquake victims
Seeing the Earthquake Through Children’s Eyes
How a project helped children document –through photography – daily life in the camps in the aftermath of the earthquake
Earthquake Families Return Home
Six months after the earthquake killed more than 70,000 people in northern Pakistan, a massive return process is underway.
An earthquake survior's life in a tent camp
Nisreen Bibi*, a 20-year-old mother and earthquake survivor who now lives with her family in the newly set up Jaba camp, Mansehra, NWFP tells her story about the earthquake and thereaftrer
First baby born in IDP camp
As an LHW deployed to work in the relief camps where some 160,000 are now living in the wake of Pakistan’s huge earthquake, one of Sharmeen’s responsibilities is keeping a record of all the pregnant women living in the tents.
I saved my sister
Bilal, 13, a Grade 8th student at Government Boys Secondary School, Village Nar Sher Ali, Bagh was in school on the morning of October 8th when the earthquake rocked parts of South Asia, severely damaging Azad Kashmir.
“These days, even the moon comes out late in Pakistan”
Nisreen Bibi is a 20 year old mother who formerly lived in the village of Sachan Nadi, near Balakot, a town completely razed to the ground by the fury of earth on October 8.
For the orphans of the earthquake life will not be the same again
UNICEF has lead responsibility for protection of children in the aftermath of the huge disaster that has hit Pakistan. All children living in internally displaced people’s (IDP’s) camps are being registered.
First tent school opened for children living in relief camps
In a first step to rebuild a destroyed educational system, tent schools appear in disaster areas
A Children's Catastrophe: Youth Volunteers Assist
How youth volunteers are making a difference in earthquake relief efforts
