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ERRA dispatches four trucks of relief goods for flood affectees of AJ&K and KPK on August 3, 2010. The first consignment of relief items dispatched to Muzaffarabad, Bagh, Mansehra and Balakot from ERRA HQ, included food, family tents, blankets, charpais, kitchen items and other household goods. Deputy Chairman ERRA, Lt Gen Haroon Aslam and other senior ERRA were also present on this occasion.

While talking to media on this occasion Deputy Chairman ERRA said; Pakistani nation has demonstrated the will and ability to withstand such natural disasters, in the past. By displaying the resolve and sense of sacrifice, the nation demonstrated after October 8, 2005 earthquake, we will be able to reduce the hardships and sufferings of the affectees of recent floods. ERRA is in touch with the governments of AJ&K and KPK through SERRA and PERRA to provide possible relief to the affected people”. Gen Haroon added that we are passing through difficult times, but with collective efforts, will and resolve, we will be able to provide necessary relief to millions of hapless Pakistanis, who have been rendered shelterless by floods.

Gen Haroon informed the media that ERRA, established by the Government of Pakistan to undertake the reconstruction and rehabilitation operations in the 2005 earthquake affected areas, has emerged as specialized disaster control outfit during the past five years. The Authority is always in the forefront to provide relief to the victims of natural calamities in various parts of the country. ERRA was among the first few organisations which dispatched truck loads of relief goods to Malakand after military operations, and a C130 full of relief items along with a team of medical experts to Balochistan after the earthquake, which hit Balochistan in 2008.

Dispatch of 2 trucks of relief goods each to KPK and AJK, will be followed by relief activities in the flood affected areas by ERRA. Deputy Chairman ERRA has also formed a relief centre for the flood affectees to ensure the coordinated efforts aimed at providing relief to the affectees. This camp will be established by the evening of August 4, 2010 in front ERRA Headquarters to collect dry food, medicine and other household goods for the flood affectees.