Pakistan Floods 2010

 11 July 2010 – National Sports Coalition – Zahid did cooked food for families in school in charsadda.-660 people x 4 days.
 Mid Ramadan- distribution of food packages in several locations.
 Aug-Sept 27-4, 2010 - Dr young, Steve sivabalan, Tan bee hoon, ps ck Lim, Cynthia, Christina, David Medical teams/ food relief distribution. Us$10K

Post Ketsana Floods and Post Isabella Storm

 Feb 24-28 Medical clinic to Albay/St Rosa/ Balubad with ps Ferdie/OC. Malaysians-Dr Sarah/Susan/medical student/LW
 July 5-8 Manila/st Rosa (Alan, Hannah, LW) follow-up on the livelihood projects/loans/co-op

CREST/HIS team – segamat flood relief Feb 2011 64 volunteers from kuala lumpur and johor churches came together for a 1 day cleaning, distribution and cooking.

Team of 6 malaysians left for Peshawar/Charsadda area in NWFP-Pakistan Oct 15-23, 2010

Objective : medical clinic, distribution of winter blankets, education kits, installation of biosand water filtration units.

The 4 mobile medical clinics were very well attended. Within minutes of arrival under police escort- we were swarmed. A total of 900 patients were given medical attention.

CREST responded to the IDP crisis in north west Pakistan by partnering with local NGOs to provide cooking utensils and food packages to meet the top 2 needs of families in Charsadda and Haripur. On June 25 and 26, a total of 75 sets of cooking utensils and 200 packs of food was distributed among the lDPs in Haripur and Camp No. 1 and Camp No. 2 in Charsadda.

On 26th May 2006, an earthquake measuring 6.3 Richter scale hit Bantul near the city of Yogyakarta. More than 6,200 people perished, 30,000 were injured and more than 105,000 homes destroyed.

In early October 2005, a powerful earthquake with a magnitude of 7.6 hit Kashmir, the territory disputed by India and Pakistan since independence from Britain in 1947. About three million people lost their homes in the quake which Pakistan says left some 73,000 dead.

On Sunday, 26th December 2004, at about 8am local time, an earthquake measuring about 8.9 on the Ricther scale, struck the Island of Sumatera and some smaller islands off its West Coast. It also unleashed a Tsunami that devastated the shores of these islands as well as other neighbouring countries including Malaysia, Thailand, Burma, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Kenya, Somalia, Seychelles, Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

Millions of refugees from Afghanistan have fled the country as a result of more than twenty years of war, three years of drought, and the recent escalation of hostilities as a result of the September 11th 2001 attack on the USA.

A major earthquake registering 6.5 on the Richter scale hit Iran on 26 December 2003 on its south-eastern province of Kerman at 05:28 (local time). The area most affected was the ancient city of Bam where more than 43,000 people were killed, an estimated 30,000 injured and up to 75,000 left homeless, according to official estimates.