Flood Relief and Rehabilitation in Multan Area

Rotary Club of Multan Metropolitan has conducted a number of flood relief activities in and around Multan area which are also covered by two TV channels GEO, WASEB and Radio Pakistan apart from the vast coverage by local and national print media.

The club had opened Five Flood Relief Camps; 4 in Multan and one at Chowk Munda near Kot Addu.

DG Shehzad Ahmad visited our Baqirabad Camp New Multan where 350 Flood Victims were accommodated under the supervision of Rtn Malik Rub Nawaz, while another camp for 250 Flood IDPs was setup at Lodhi Colony Multan under the supervision of Rtn Col ® Dost Muhammad.

Four Hundred  Packs of rations and other utility items were handed over to Station Commander of Multan, Pakistan Army through DG Shehzad from our Lohari Gate Centre Multan. Out of these 400 Packs, 200 Packs were provided by Maj ® Shahnawaz, President Elect RC Faisalabad and 200 packs were provided by Muslim Brothers of Bonton, New Jersey, USA. 50 Compact Packs of Ration for 15 families 15 days requirements were provided by Rtn Afzal Sardar to the flood victims of Rajan Pur; whereas Rtn Sh. Muhammad Ali has  continuously been providing different relief items and cooked food regularly to different IDP camps in Multan, P.E Ch. Zulfiqar Anjum also delivered three trucks of biscuits, rations and clean drinking water bottles in flood effected ares of South Punjab.

Two medical camps, one at Gulgasht Multan and one at Chowk Munda near Kot Addu flood affected area are established permanently with the help of Rehmat Rehman Memorial Trust by RC Multan Metropolitan.

Three Mobile Medical Teams of RC Multan Metropolitan are run by our members who are doctors themselves, under the supervision of Rtn Dr. Zarina Ashraf and Rtn Dr. Asif Rehman. These medical teams of RC Multan Metropolitan has checked and treated 27,375 patients anlong with the provision of free medicine, till today. One Tent Village was setup at Lucky Chowk near Mahmood Kot Muzafargarh in association with WASEB TV by RC Multan Metropolitan accommodating 72 families. In addition to the relief activities at Multan and Muzaffargarh, club has also sent medicines to CDG Rauf Rohaila at Peshawar.

RC Multan Metropolitan has procured and provided 57 Double Fly 120 lbs tents to the flood effected people of Gurmani Village and its vicinity. Club has received 39 tents from Pak Army and purchased 18 tents from Karachi from the amount donated by Muslim Brothers of Bonton, New Jersey, USA.

Following members and friends of Rotary, other than those mentioned above, have also contributed a lot towards the flood relief activities of the club:

• Rtn Muhammad Ahmad Sindhu
• Rtn Waqas Khalid
• Rtn Khalid Rafique
• Rtn Jamshed Rizwani
• Rtn Musarat Akram
• Rtn Zubaida Saeed
• Rotract Fatima Akram

• Deputy Governor Haji Iftikhar Ahmad (10 Tents & Rs. 5000/- cash contribution).
• Rotarians Dr. Mansoor A. Sheikh – Lahore
• Chief Engineer Ch.Shakeel Ahmad, Engineer Afzal Saeed, Engineer Sh Ateeq ur Rehman, Khaja Khalid
• Mahmood (Burqab), Engineer Iqbal Khan – all from   MEPCO.

• Mrs. Ghazala Anjum, Mrs. Sara Sajid, Mrs. Dur-e-Shehwar (Lahore, Dr. tariq Mohsin (Lahore))

To our honour, District Chairperson Innerwheel Mrs. Shama Shahab has also coordinated with President RC Multan Metropolitan for on location distribution of Relief Goods and provision of 10 hand pumps with community baths in our Tent Villages at Muzafargarh and Lucky Chowk.

The Club has over all distributed the relief goods and cash to the flood victims worth 2.2 Million Rupees till date.

Rtn. Maj (Retd) Anjum Afroze Rana, President, Rotary Club of Multan Metropolitan in his two live interviews on Waseb TV, both for two hours each, has not only highlighted the role of Rotary in Flood Relief Activities but has also done a wonderful job for the Rotary Image Building. People of the area and everywhere have their full faith & trust in Rotary Club of Multan Metropolitan for its very effectively focused flood relief activities.

RC Multan Metropolitan is now whole heartedly concentrating / focusing on REHABILITATION work and planed to repair and build houses for flood affected.  In this regard a village consisting of 49 families has been adopted by the club and named “Rotary – Gurmani Village”, where 27 houses, one School, one medical Aid Centre will be constructed by club along with installation of 14 hand pumps and one motor water pump. District Governor Shehzad Ahmad had visited the adopted village on 28 Sep 2010 for earth breaking and stone lying function. He has appreciated and lauded the project and offered his maximum cooperation in completion of this First Rotary Rehabilitation Project.

The details of the project can be downloaded from here as Project paper for information of all.