Shabnam
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| Location | United Kingdom |
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| Introduction | I am undertaking a needs assessment in the red zone earthquake disaster area of Kashmir, called Muzaffarabad district. The charity I work for, KYDS Trust, has previously provided fresh and easily accessible water to a village completed destroyed by the earthquake. My remit is to evaluate and replicate this good work in similarly remote villages. These remote areas have been somewhat neglected by the aid work that this disaster attracted and are certainly not helped by their government. Previous KYDS assessments identified that these places are in dire need of basic human needs: water, permanent homes, schools, health centres, orphanages, and, in addition, unemployment rates are sky-high. So, people are caught in a poverty trap: they have no education or means of getting skills to then earn a living which means they continue to live in this deprived way, affecting their social and health needs, and continuing in the next generation. By providing basic health, social and education support, there is a much higher chance of the lot of these people - who have already suffered so much loss - improving. |