PAKISTAN EARTHQUAKE
SPECIAL | Rebuilding the infrastructure of towns is a huge challenge.
Photo - AFP/Getty Images |
We look at how Yorkshire and
Lincolnshire is responding to the disaster of the South Asia earthquake. Many
of the region's businesses are planning to help rebuild some of the worst affected
areas in Pakistan. In Bradford, plans are already being drawn up to
help re-build the areas hardest-hit by the earthquake. Businessmen are
preparing to help restore the infrastructure of towns and villages where normal
life has been completely disrupted. | KEY CONTACTS | |
The Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC)
DEC Asia Quake Appeal, PO
Box 999, London, EC3A 3AA. Donation line - 0870 60 60 900
High Commission
of Pakistan Helpline - 07946 476 616 / 020 7664 9284 International
Committee of the Red Cross
Missing persons tracing team - 0845 053 2004
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
020 7008 0000.
The
Samaritans
Support to anyone in emotional distress. 08457 90 90 90 (UK)
or send an email to jo@samaritans.org |
The move comes are businessmen in Bradford realised that there was
an urgent need for a "second phase" to the relief effort, once the immediate
emergency of the dead and injured has been dealt with. Inside Out reports
on a scheme to take kit-form houses to a region where whole communities will need
to be re-built. Links relating to this story:The BBC is not responsible for the
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Inside
Out - Yorkshire & Lincolnshire: Monday October 17, 2005