IRC-Tent City established in Khairpur

The IRC tent city is now ready and has occupied more than 195 families with 1300 people; this figure includes male, female, babies, young and old population.


The tent city is established under the date palm orchard so that maximum shade and protection from hot sun light can be had for an overall tent city.

The 200 tents have been allotted to 195 families according to size of the families; mainly the people are originated from, Kashmore, Jacobabad, Jaffarabad, Shikapur and Dadu areas.



The appealing features of IRC-tent city are:

√ Child friendly school spaces established and IDPs’ kids are studying
√ An indigenous date palm stem built shades called (Ladhis) established for social and cultural activities.
√ Two main blocks are mapped i.e Sachal and Bhitti whereas the Sami road is the main link to these blocks.
√ Mohallas are established for various communities such as, Shaikh, Merani, Pahore, Jafferi, Chandia and Nindwani .
√ For proper sanitation conditions some separate toilets are properly placed, like an orange colored toilets for women and some blue colored toilets for male are now become functional and being used.
√ Each mohalla has been given a separate hand pump and washing facility so that water for drinking and washing could be fetched and utilized properly.
√ A tent city secretariat is there to help support IDPs.
√ Electricity is provided across tent city for the provision of light at night time
√ Food and non food items are provided as per schedule and according to ration card.
√ Medical facility is also there to help IDPs.


Every evening is really a special evening because campers sing songs so that they should not remember an ever difficult time of their life.

MNA-Syeda Nafia Shah came to visit IRC Tent city on EID day and appreciated the efforts of IRC team.


IRC is striving very hard to raise more funds to support IDPs in their food and non food needs.

Highlights till 29th August-2010

On 28th August-10, a delegation from Concern world came to visit IRC-Khairpur. A debriefing session was held at IRC regional office.
Ms. Jeniffer and Ms. Annia were briefed by the Regional Managers of IRC Khairpur over the existing situation of IDPs and the camps being supported by the Government and the civil society organizations.
Later an out country team was coordinated by RM (IRC-Edl) and the project team working under Concern World project at Khairpur to Kacha bund areas where the affected people are settled in tents whose villages and houses have been washed away by the super flood.
IRC team facilitated the concern world team to Sports complex at Pir jo Goth area where the IDPs are currently settled and IRC under Concern World project has installed couple of hand pumps and toilets. Under this project IRC has to set up 100 washrooms and 35 hand pumps across the flood effected displaced population of Kingri Taluka. Having finished the visit in sports complex team headed towards Jamsheed Bund where IRC has setup some facilities under this project.
An out country team finished its visit at Jamsheed bund and headed towards Shikarpur.
Ms. Haider (Deputy Consulate General) Republic of Germany visited IRC Khairpur; Ms. Haider’s visit was focused on the emerging chaotic situation of flood, assessing the circumstances prevailing in the flood affected areas and the response of IRC in helping and supporting the internally displaced people. IRC is currently implementing a project on human rights education under the aegis of Consulate General of Germany. IRC SMT briefed Ms. Haider over the existing situation of flood affected population and the issues of IDPs. Later she was facilitated by an advisor to ED-IRC towards Jamsheed bund at Kingri Taluka and IRC managed relief camps at Mori and Shah Latif areas.

An emergency meeting held at IRC wherein staff reviewed the flood activities and assessed the response of IRC in helping out the flood affected people in Khairpur.
All IRC staff involved in flood relief activities brief the forum about their assigned activities. Mr. Turab Soomro shared the progress of supplying food and non food items to flood affected population of Sobhodero and Gambat talukas.
Ms. Nusrat and Neghat shared the progress of swing machines and cloths provided to IDPs settled at Mori camp.
Mr. Aslam briefed the forum about his role at warehouse established by DCO to support the flood affected population in Khairpur.
Mr. Ali Madad and Mr. Akram narrated the progress of IRC-adopted camps at Mori and Shah Latif areas.
I my self talked about the situation of School Inbox approach by Unicef for those children who are affected by flood and their study engagement plan.
Mr. Hashmat and his team shared the findings of their reproductive study conducted across the relief camps in Sobhodero and Gambat. A field rapid assessment activity was also shared by them in such a great detail by covering the spheres standards.
ED-IRC expressed her satisfaction over the emergency work being done by all the team members in Khairpur. She emphasized that, though it is very important to help support IDPs in their ever difficult time, but this is also very necessary that each one of us should dedicate our time for relief activities in future too.
 Senior Management and Team leaders’ meeting held at IRC Khazana under the chairpersonship of ED-IRC, 28th August-2010 (9:30pm to 12:00am).

Meeting highlights are mentioned below:
While reviewing the overall condition of IRC-managed relief camps, it was observed that the sanitation and cleanliness situation of Shahlatif relief camps were found satisfactory whereas the issues of cleanliness and sanitation were seriously noticed at Mori Camp.
It was decided that,
 The (Camp Manager) Mori will get atleast three toilets functional, rupees 10,000/- approved for maintenance and cleanliness activities.
The (Camp Manager) Shah Latif schools will also come up with a reasonable estimation for an overhauling and maintenance of non functional toilets at Shahlatif schools.
 Both the managers will figure out the skills of IDPs in both the camps so that support of material for hand made products could be streamlined soon.
 Sweepers will be given Rs.50/- in addition to Rs.100/- per day so that they will do cleaning of toilets twice a day.
 Mr. Jaweed Tajik (Finance Manager) IRC Khairpur will submit a weekly expense report to ED-IRC for analysis and approval of further aid funds to IRC-Khairpur.
The (RM) Khairpur will talk to DCO Khairpur and ensure utensils and hygiene kits for Shah Latif camps while IRC will ensure reasonable utensils that are not included in the package of government but are very important for daily use.
The camp managers will be given weekly petty cash which will help ensure reasonable vegetables for campers and milk for morning tea.
The other agenda point of meeting was to establish IRC-Tent city in date palm orchard located at the north side of broad casting house of radio Pakistan Khairpur.
Decisions:
 Mr. Hashmat Jatoi and his team will be responsible to run and manage the camp affairs. Mr. Jatoi will act as the manager for IRC tent city.
 The leveling of land, establishment of tents, set up of landhis, protection wall of date palm leaves, developing bridge over the water channel and play ground will be the responsibility of Mr. Naveed Khayal, Aumir Abbas, Jaweed Abro and Syed Munir Shah.
 Developing banner of camps will be the sole responsibility of Mr. Aumir.
 Installation of 06 to 08 hand pumps and 20 latrines will be the responsibility of Mr. Ali Madad and Mr. Ubaidullah. Seeking support to have these facilities ensured can be gotten from district government Khairpur.
 A female social mobilizer will be appointed by IRC whose reasonable salary will be decided by SMT, she will directly report to Mr. Hashmat.
 Mr. Jaweed abro will get in touch with district government to have focus lights placed inside the tent city.
 Lantern will be fixed inside the landhis, whose responsibility lies on Mr. Aumir and Jaweed abro.
 Hopefully, IRC tent city will be ready to house IDPs from Tuesday 31st August-10.

Flood up dates till 26th August-2010

The situation of an internal displacement of people from Jacobabad, Kashmore, Shikarpur, Sukkur and the affected Kacha areas of District Khairpur is going on. Many civil society organizations and the Govt. of Sindh are taking emergency steps to help support the IDPs who have been affected by the flood and displaced from their home districts.

Since the magnitude of displacement is quite high, district Khairpur is housing many more IPDs who are coming from above districts. The current shift in policy of Govt. is announced recently that all the IDPs who are occupying Govt. owned buildings would be facilitated to shift in Karachi, so that proper mechanism of helping people in terms of food, shelter, medical assistance, cloths etc could be managed at one place.
IDPs willing to be shifted to Karachi are being facilitated by the district government Khairpur free of charge and trying to vacate the Govt. owned buildings particularly schools so as to initiate classes for those students who used to study being the local recipient of education.

In Khairpur, as it is already mentioned that IRC teams are extensively busy at couple of fronts and supporting the emergency activities.
Being the district coordinator in food committee formed by DCO-Khairpur IRC is supplying draw food items to the flood affected kacha areas that are existing in those taluka which are adversely hit by running water. IRC is also keeping the record of all the supplies received from various channels and the supplies distributed in the field. IRC team is available all the time at DCO house where the warehouse is setup.
Besides this, IRC has adopted three camps in Khairpur whose one by one explanation is mentioned below:
Camp-1 (Govt. Boys Primary School at Mori, Taluka Kingri)
The current figure of IDPs in camp is 250 out of which, there are 50 Females, 47 Male and 153 children.
Now camp life has become normal as IRC is putting its best possible efforts to support these people in terms of food, coordinating their medical needs, provided cloths and possible reasonable material for their daily use.
As reported earlier that there were two females who were in their advance stage to deliver baby. IRC team together with RHC- (Rural Health Centre) kept these two females in strict observation. Out of these two women, one has delivered a baby boy at RHC under normal condition. The other one Ms. Salemat is in her advance stage and we in a team are keeping her in observation. Networking with volunteer doctors is going on, a team from Agha Khan Karachi visited the camp and checked the IDPs, later they found out that there are some viral diseases attacked the people wherein Gastro, Hepatitis and influenza are worth mentioning. Mr. Rano Pahore was found out being the affectee of Hepatitis, doctors advised us to shift him to RHC for his proper treatment. Through RHC- Mr Rano Pahore has been shifted from camp to Khairpur and being admitted in TB-Centre as the wards in civil hospital have already been over crowded.
Ms. Nafisa Shah (MNA) Khairpur visited the camp met with IPDs inquired about their facilities in camp role of IRC. She turned satisfied and appreciated the efforts of IRC team.
Camp-2 (Govt. Boys Primary School) Shah Latif Colony Khairpur
The current figure of IDPs in camp is 119 out of which, there are 34 Females, 27 Male and 58 children.
The IDPs belong to Nindwani community have come from Taluka Tangwani district Kashmore.
IRC has adopted this camp for the last few days and have started providing cooked food for two times, lunch and dinner whereas reasonable material has been provided to them for morning breakfast. A few days back an organization called SRSO provided them the raw food items such as flour, 50 KG bag and Oil 4.5 KG.
Since, they were newly settled and requiring some basic things cloth, slippers etc some of the family members sold out their belongings and the food items given by SRSO and ensured the things for their daily use.
These IDPs are in need of utensils, cloths of children with some other items of daily use; IRC is providing whatever is possible. For breakfast, some containers have been provided along with tea, sugar and flour to those families who didn’t receive any kind of aid from any other organization except IRC. The sanitary condition is not encouraging as the current toilets of schools are non functional except one. IRC is being in touch with Sindh Urban Corporation for their repair and cleanliness.
The health profile of this camp is also meek; IRC arranged a visit of LHWs to this camp for quick medical check up of females. It was found out that a woman namely Naimat is an advance stage to deliver baby. Within IDPs and at Camp level a system is developed in a way so that any medical emergency could be addressed immediately.
The hand pump facility in this camp requires an immediate attention, Mr. Ali Madad (IRC-camp) In charge will get the hand pump issue fixed on urgent basis. IRC has provided a good plastic tank for water storage that has the capacity of more than 150lts which will be used by IDPs in their daily use of water.
Camp-3 (Govt. Girls Primary School) Shah Latif Colony Khairpur
The current figure of IDPs in camp is 36 out of which, there are 09 Females, 13 Male and 14 children.
The IDPs belong to Nindwani community have come from Taluka Tangwani district Kashmore.
IRC is providing two times cooked food whereas breakfast is prepared by IDPs by themselves whose material is provided by IRC.
Networking efforts are being done so that medical facility from District Health Department and some support in terms of utensils from DCO office could be ensured at camps.

Flood situtation till 16th August-2010

The situation of flood is still persistent and displacement of people from Kashmore, Jacobabad, Shikarpur, surrounding areas of Sukkur and Kacha area of Khairpur is going on; people in groups are travelling to Hyderabad, Karachi and to Khairpur city areas.

The camps are being established by district government within Government school premises in Khairpur city and small towns of various talukas.
In Khairpur, civil society organizations are mainly active and playing their useful role with a great enthusiasm and vigour. Since the Indus Resource Centre has adopted couple of relief camps at Govt. Boys Primary School Mori and Govt. Boys High School Bhurgri, the provision of food and non food items are being provided to Mori camp whereas these items are in process for Bhurghri camp.
Major Highlights of relief activities

 During last two days 400 food packets have been distributed to the victims of flood across Sobhodero and Gambat talukas by IRC under the coordinative efforts of District Govt. Khairpur.
 Together with Red Crescent Society and District Government, IRC has managed to distribute 32 hygiene kits among affected families in Mori camp, which included, Towel, bath soap, Female hygiene pads, tooth paste, shaving razors, shaving cream and Nail cutter.
 In Mori relief camp together with above stakeholders some utensils have also been distributed such as Vessels, Roti baking pot, silver food plates, adequate pot for floor kneading, Gerry Kans 15lts and sewed cloths. IRC has also distributed the non food items except those items which had not been delivered to them by any donor.
 IRC has provided 02 sewing machines at Mori Relief camp with some 17 unstitched cloths to those females who are skilled and able to sew cloths. A proper room is allotted to these females so that sewing activity could be performed in conducive environment.
 Stock register is made available at camp which helps us to understand how many things have been provided to campers.
 Food is being provided to campers whereas breakfast is being prepared at camp venue by females.

 Situation of sanitary condition is quite better as compare to previous scene which was prevalent a few days back, a sweeper is appointed by IRC who looks after toilets. Couple of toilets require maintenance whose responsibility has been fixed and to be undertaken on urgent basis.
 Camp in Bhurgri is new and being taken care of to the best of our available resource.
 SRSO organization is also active in field for flood affected people and has started providing temporary toilets and hand pump facilities. One hand pump and two temporary toilets have been provided by this organization at Govt. Boys High School Bhurgri.

 Linkages are established with PPHI (Mobile) medical camp that has checked out IDPs at Bhurgri Camp.
 There we have seen cattle today inside Bhurgri Camp they have arrived last night so, we are in process to have discussion with campers for their future plans.