Disaster and Humanitarian Unit

Establishment of Disaster and Humanitarian Unit

Posted Sat, 11/22/2008 - 10:53 by Anonymous

By the mid of 2008, PFF reviewed its strategies and themes. During this review, it was realized that large part of PFF’s activities are being carried out under the theme of disaster and humanitarian, therefore, it was felt to establish a separate component with specific objective and agenda of dealing with disaster and humanitarian issues in the disaster prone areas that directly and indirectly are affecting fisherfolks and environment.

A crisis in the making

Posted Sun, 11/23/2008 - 19:08 by Anonymous

Is the monsoon season good news for everyone? Perhaps not!

The clouds have started bearing more rumbling water from the Arabian Sea and will soon approach the coastal belt of Sindh, which is a disaster-prone area. The monsoon season is generally welcomed throughout the country because of the pleasant weather it brings, but the flipside is that many areas like the coastal belt of Sindh will be flooded, resulting in the loss of both life and property.

Preparing fishers against natural disasters- project report

Posted Sat, 11/29/2008 - 15:40 by Anonymous

PFF in a joint venture with Oxfam Great Britain (GB) launched a Gift Unwrapped project, known as PKNA 71, for supporting people of Jatti, Thatta, to prepare them for the disasters like rainfall, cyclone and floods. Besides help them to uplift their economy and standards of lives. It started in August 2007 and successfully ended in April 2008. The over all objective of the project was to reduce the vulnerabilities of disaster prone communities through strengthened infrastructure facilities and response capacity.

Risk of Tsunami off Sumatra remains large, says new research

Posted Fri, 12/05/2008 - 15:39 by Anonymous

The risk of another large earthquake off the coast of Sumatra, the area struck by a 9.2 magnitude quake and tsunami in 2004 resulting in the death of 225,000 people, remains large, new research claims.

The report published in the journal Nature today claims that the subduction zone is "ripe" for yet another large seismic event, despite a series of quakes in 2007. "From what we saw we can say with some confidence that we're probably not done with large earthquakes in Sumatra," author Jean-Philippe Avouac, from the Tectonics, said.