Haitian Infant fed DripDrop ORS
Haitian infant with acute infectious diarrhea being treated with Drip Drop oral rehydration solution in Port-au-Prince
Disaster Relief Organization & Support Squad | Team Rubicon
Mission Pakistan: Preparations Continue
Team Rubicon deploys with BGAN, Iridium and Inmarsat satellite communications equipment in order to maintain the donor-responder relationship while in the field. In near real time, Team Rubicon regularly transmits first-hand evaluations to donors, as well as accurate reports on medical and living conditions, to officials of the national government and other relief groups. In this way, Team Rubicon becomes “eyes and ears” on the ground, assisting other organizations in fine-tuning their responses to a disaster. Our operations wouldn’t be possible without you, the individual donor, or corporate sponsors like Brunton and Under Armor.
Your Donations Needed To Bring Oral Rehydration Solution to Pakistan
TR is traveling in remote areas to treat internally displaced persons (IDPs) of the Pakistani flood crisis. In addition to treatment, the team is training IDPs how to make the solution with locally available resources. Indigenizing the solution is the end goal of the team, so that those we treated are less of a burden on the already stretched thin government, security forces, and NGOs.
UN: 1 million more displaced by Pakistan floods
THATTA, Pakistan – Hundreds of thousands of Pakistanis fled floodwaters Friday after the surging River Indus smashed through levees in two places, but many refused to leave the danger zone while others took shelter in an ancient graveyard for Muslim saints.
The new flooding came after the Taliban issued a veiled threat against foreign aid workers helping out in the crisis, a development likely to complicate the massive relief effort. More than 8 million people are in need of emergency assistance across the country.
Team Rubicon and transparency
Team Rubicon needs your financial support for its operations in Pakistan. With widespread reports about the misuse of donations, Team Rubicon offers donors a unique look into how your money is spent. We call it the Donor-Responder connection. Along with our detailed After Action Reports, what you get is transparency. Stay tuned as Team Rubicon responds to one of the worst humanitarian crises in recent history.
From the Associated Press:
Team Rubicon Graphic Designer Sarah Lenger Showcased
http://www.minted.com/blog/2010/08/20/meet-a-mintie-paper-plains/
Team Rubicon's volunteer graphic designer, Sarah Lenger, was interviewed on the design website Minted.com last week. Check out the interview and some of the work that she does for Minted's line of invitations and announcements. Sarah is an incredible designer and has given Team Rubicon its trademark look!
Foreign Policy Magazine: Why Doesn’t the World Care About Pakistan?
Why Doesn’t the World Care About Pakistanis?
Because they live in Pakistan.
Foreign Policy Magazine
BY MOSHARRAF ZAIDI | AUGUST 19, 2010
The United Nations has characterized the destruction caused by the floods in Pakistan as greater than the damage from the 2004 Asian tsunami, the 2005 Pakistan earthquake, and the 2010 Haiti earthquake combined. Yet nearly three weeks since the floods began, aid is trickling in slowly and reluctantly to the United Nations, NGOs, and the Pakistani government.
After the Haiti earthquake, about 3.1 million Americans using mobile phones donated $10 each to the Red Cross, raising about $31 million. A similar campaign to raise contributions for Pakistan produced only about $10,000. The amount of funding donated per person affected by the 2004 tsunami was $1249.80, and for the 2010 Haiti earthquake, $1087.33. Even for the Pakistan earthquake of 2005, funding per affected person was $388.33. Thus far, for those affected by the 2010 floods, it is $16.36 per person.
Why has the most devastating natural disaster in recent memory generated such a tepid response from the international community? Something of a cottage industry is emerging to try to answer this latest and most sober of international mysteries. (more…)
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