September 13, 2014
Appeal for
Kashmir
Centre for
Dialogue and Reconciliation has been working in Jammu Kashmir since 2000
for creating understanding among all communities within and across the
LOC.
This is a
time of unprecedented crisis. We all have to come forward to bring succor,
solace and rehabilitation to a shattered people; our sisters and brothers
who have lost loved ones and their entire households in the worst
catastrophe of the century. Parents looking for a dry spot to bury a
newborn infant, old women sitting dead in attics, youth hauling people out
of drowned houses, themselves deprived of water are images that assail us
out of our comfort. We want to do our bit by appealing to friends all over
India and across the world to donate essential items; not money but
articles, which will mean the difference between life and death. The items
you donate, can be sent to the CDR Office at: 7/10, Sarvapriya Vihar, New
Delhi 110017. These will be sent on to Srinagar by air and will be stored
in the National Institute of Technology at Hazratbal; the chairman of its
governing body is our Trustee Wajahat Habibullah. Local youth will be
mobilized for distribution among the afflicted.
We are all
deeply hurt by the tragedy of Kashmir but remember words of Jalauddin Rumi
'The wound is the place where the light enters you'.
Syeda
Hameed
Wajahat Habibullah
Teesta Setalvad
Sushobha
Barve
Kiran Karnik
Amit Singh Chadha
List of
Items
Blankets
Drinking
water
Water
purification tablets
Essential
medicines including insulin with syringes-anti cholera, anti-typhoid
vaccines
Milk
powder/dry food/canned and baby food
First Aid
kits
Sanitary
Napkins
Batteries,
torches, candles. Match boxes
Dental kits
Water proof
bags
Delivery
kits
TentsTarpaulin, mats
Old working
mobile phones and chargers
Disinfectant like bleaching powder