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• A boy who survived October 8 earthquake walks
  outside a destroyed house in Muzaffarabad,
  November 27, 2005.

Pakistan Earthquake We Shall Prevail
Presentation by Ambassador Masood Khan Pakistans
Permanent Representative to the UN at the
International School of Geneva December 2,
2005
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• Himalayan winter
• sweeps in
• Pakistan's earthquake zone
• Harsh winter, with rain and snow
• Relief operations come to a temporary halt
• Gloom for survivors and rescuers

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• Difficult Terrain
• Roads are covered with snow.
• Pneumonia is spreading amongst cold and hungry
  children.

(AFP/Banaras Khan)
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• Damaged Infrastructure

(Goran Tomasevic/Reuters)
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• The Giant Earthquake
• October 8
• Magnitude 7.6 on the Richter scale
• Dead More than 74,000
• Seriously injured 70,000
• People affected 3.5 million
• Area 30,000 sq km
• Equal to Benelux or 2/3rd Switzerland
• Gravestone makers cant meet demand

(Goran Tomasevic/Reuters)
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• Many people could die
• Homeless 500,000
• Many people could freeze to death as winter grips
  the region.

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• Response
• Tents, tents, tents
• We ran out of domestic supplies, though Pakistan
  was the biggest supplier.
• UNHCR and NATO helped.
• We still need 200,000 tents

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• Response

• Survivors need winterized tents and warmth, not
  just any tents
• Focus on efforts to avert more deaths, disease.

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Kofi Annan visits

• November 18
• UNSG says
• An unprecedented disaster
• Requires unprecedented response
• Words and statistics fall terribly short as we
  seek to convey the human suffering of countless
  families and communities
• Strategy
• Save lives (relief)
• Restore livelihoods (early recovery)
• Rebuild economies (reconstruction)

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Pakistans dire need

• President Musharraf shows UNSG an earthquake hit
  area
• More than 5billion needed for relief, recovery,
  reconstruction
• UNSG calls for an urgent and enduring response.

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Donors Conference November 19

• President Musharraf
• Children are the main victims because they
  happened to be in schools at that time.
• Major brunt of the casualties has been borne by
  children
• A generation has been lost

(AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)
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Donors Conference November 19

• Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz
• We prepare ourselves for rehabilitation and
  reconstruction
• We shall rebuild the lives of the victims
• We shall take care of homeless , injured,
  orphans, disabled, amputees
• We shall restore lives of children, women,
  families
• Children will have safe schools to attend

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School children hit hardest

• Children were hit hardest
• Teachers died 857
• Students died18,095
• Schools destroyed 6,083
• No school in the area is functional
• Furniture, textbooks and teaching materials
  destroyed
• Trauma for teachers, students and parents who
  survived
• We need 620million to put schools together
• World Bank-ADB say we need minimum 335 million
  right away.

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Children must keep themselves warm
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But they must also go back to tent schools

• Procure textbooks
• Recruit, train teachers
• Incentives to children 4 a month

(AFP/Banaras Khan)
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We shall go back to school

• Open-air schools opened

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We shall teach and learn
Children attend an open-air school in
Muzaffarabad.
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Australian Prime Minister John Howard visits an
open-air school
November 23, 2005 Australia's Prime Minister
John Howard announces an additional A50 million
(37 m ) in aid to help survivors
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Children exercise
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Children pray
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GOP in the driving seat

• As soon as first tremors died, GOP was there
• So was Pakistans civil society
• Diaspora and expatriates
• And child protection officers all over the place

Photo by John Schenk.
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Relief operations back on track

• Who is in charge?
• Armed Forces
• Civil Administration
• NGOs
• Private Sectors
• International Community
• Response Mechanism
• Federal Relief Commission (FRC)
• Earthquake Rehabilitation and Reconstruction
  Authority (ERRA)
• Foreign Office, our missions talking to the
  world
• Ministry of Education helping children

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Hands on Ministry of Education

• 400 schools re-opened
• 500 tents for schools and colleges
• Bid for 21,000 tents placed with the relief
  commissioner
• 500,000 packets of stationary items and 600,000
  notebooks by Government of Punjab

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We have friends who care
November 26, 2005 U.S. military helicopter
carrying humanitarian aid to Balakot The
United Nations was there within hours of the
earthquake. So were WHO, UNHCR, WFP, ICRC, IFRC,
IOM, others, NGOs Pursued cluster
approach Shelter Food Camp Management Health
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NATO is there too
November 28, 2005 NATO commanders visit Bagh hit
by the Earthquake Switzerland, France,
Germany, UK were there too.
(AP Photo/B.K.Bangash)
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And so was Angelina Jolie

• She is UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador
• She met children, women, visited the hospitals

(AP Photo)
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UNHCR Antonio Guterres with Angelina Jolie

• Jolie pleaded for swift aid to avoid a new
  disaster in Pakistan with the onset of the brutal
  Himalayan cold

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The calamity is not over

• Our enemies are
• Harsh winter
• Terrain
• Disease-Pneumonia, Hypothermia, Tetanus

(AFP/Banaras Khan)
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What can you do?

• Sensitivity You have already demonstrated it by
  organizing the Asian Earthquake Assemblies
• Empathy Feel for children who are suffering, who
  have lost siblings, parents, friends, classmates,
  limbs
• Outreach Talk to the quake victims through
  letters, email, as they try to put together their
  broken lives.

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What can you do?

• Assistance Adopt schools
• Raise funds Even if they are token contributions

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What can you do?

• Learn disaster management
• Its a collective responsibility
• It can strike any time, anywhere
• Its a global responsibility.
• As future leaders and decision makers, youll
  have to deal with it.

(AFP/Asif Hassan)
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Thank you United Nations, Thank you International
Community

• UN
• UNOCHA
• UNHCR
• UNICEF
• WHO
• WFP
• IOM
• UNESCO
• ICRC
• IFRC
• WMO
• ILO
• IUCN

• Thank you
• International School of Geneva
• Mrs. Lesley Stagg
• Mrs. Eva Noorduijn
• Mrs. Maggie Lopez
• Ms. Robin Webb
• Members of the Faculty
• All Students

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We Shall Triumph

• World Vision Child Friendly Space inspires warm
  up activities
• We shall give more confidence to children
• They should be able to stand up, face reality,
  and rebuild.

Photo by John Schenk