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High-Energy Biscuits for Students |
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The World Food Program (WFP) will distribute high-energy biscuits originally meant for people of the war-torn Iraq to nearly 270,000 schoolchildren in the earthquake-hit areas of NWFP and Azad Jammu and Kashmir.
WFP’s spokesman said on October 10 that the UN agency had decided to divert some of its shipments from its main stores in Italy to Pakistan because people still lacked cooking facilities. The biscuits and dates were distributed among the people of the quake-hit areas during the relief phase.
Now the WFP has chosen 2,960 schools in these areas where students are given 75kgs of biscuits and the same quantity of dates during recess every day. The WFP decided to distribute biscuits in schools when it realized that its stocks were not being used properly.
The biscuits are also being used by troops during war time. During tsunami, major earthquakes and even the recent Katrina in the US, high energy biscuits had served as instant food. More than 6,298 educational institutions were damaged by last year’s earthquake in Pakistan. Some 67% of educational institutions in Azad Jammu and Kashmir and the North West Frontier Province were either damaged or destroyed. |
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SPARC Opening 10 Fun Houses |
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In January 2006, SPARC, with the financial support of Kindernothilfe, a German organization, will set up 10 Fun Houses for the earthquake affected children of Balakot and Muzafarabad... The overall purpose of these Center will be to help children normalize and to minimize the social and emotional affects of the disaster.
The Project is expected to benefit approximately 500 children, currently living in tent villages or other make shift shelters, with little or no access to any concerted program for recreation, trauma counselling, or basic health and hygiene. The Fun Centers are expected to fill this gap by providing the enrolled children with a warm and safe day recreation center, and an opportunity to spend time in healthy and pleasant activities.
Each Fun Center will be housed in a sturdy large tent, with a toilet, water tank, an electricity generator, television set, DVD player and assorted CDs and DVDs of cartoons and movies for children. In addition, in door and outdoor game facilities and equipment will be available. Teaching material, including school books, story books, painting and colouring books and material will also be provided. For smaller children, toys will be provided. A mid day meal consisting of milk/juice/tea along with cookies/sandwiches/fresh fruit will be organized daily for the enrolled children. A teacher will be hired from the community, who will supervise the activities and help children in keeping in touch with their studies. She will also be responsible for providing lessons on personal hygiene. In addition, trauma counselling will be provided by an international expert who has volunteered her services free of cost.
SPARC already has one such Center operational in Balakot since November 18 in which over 80 children are already enrolled. The Center is run by SPARC volunteer and a local teacher. The Fun Center has proved to be extremely popular with children as well as their families and there is demand from the community for more such Centers. |
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Buddy Pack Program |
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Children Bounce Back in Balakot |
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Adoption of Quake-Hit Children Banned |
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