This post features a fairly typical request for specific aid, resulting from one of SQR’s trips into the affected area. Some details have been removed, but this is here to show how part of SQR works: volunteers talk with local people, and then pass on specific requests.
SQR quickly considers the requests, and, if approved, organises the purchase and delivery of material. If you would like to sponsor a similar delivery, please contact SQR at info@sichuan-quake-relief.org.
Email from SQR’s Peter Goff to SQR volunteers:
Today Sofia and Rainy are in Beichuan with trucks delivering food supplies to Chenjiapu. Lucy, Tessa and Bingbing are in Luoshui on the summer camp project. We’ve been coordinating some projects with a group of local volunteers. They’ve come across two villages that need support. Info below for the funding committee’s consideration. The lists below identifies a lot of needs. We haven’t gone to these two villages yet ourselves so perhaps we could take in some of the most urgent stuff in the next day or so and do further research when there?
Info from Earthquake Volunteer Home
The following villages are along a river bank at the foot of the mountains. There are threats of floods and landslides in the region so they need some extra help.
Niubizi Village, Hanwang
General Info: No electricity. Road conditions: all right. Just off the road. Possible landslides on the other side of the village. Population: 2601 registered villagers (950 families) plus 200 Yi minority. Long-term residents 40-60 families.
Most urgent:
- Cooking oil: per person per month minimum 1.5kg. 14.4 per kg from last shopping experience. 1.5kg x 2801ppl if we provide enough for a month.
- Mosquito incense 2 box per month per family x (950+ the Yi families)
- Matches: 1 box per family x (950 + the Yi families)
- Candles: 10 pcs per family x (950 + the Yi familes)
- Quilts for all families. 1 for 3 people.
The village is divided into 14 farming units.
Qunxin Village, Hanwang
General Info: has electricity and Internet, but no computers or any other office equipment. Total population 2840, 1030 families. 100 villagers aged from 8 to 12, 100 from 13 to 16, 2640 above 17.
Fighting floods every day. Flood threat much worse than Niubizi Village.
Most urgent:
- Cooking oil: per person per month minimum 1.5kg. 14.4 per kg from last shopping experience. 1.5kg x 2840ppl if we provide enough for a month.
- Mosquito incense: 2 boxes per month per family x 1030
- Raincoats and plastic rain boots for the frontline flood fighters (lots of people have became flood-fighting team members since losing their houses).
- Summer clothing : shorts and singlets (all donated clothes are for winter)
- Blue and red material 150 units (dimensions for per unit width 6m or 6m, length 50m). Or a whole roll according to this request.
- Office equipment: secondhand laptop and all in one printer/fax/copier. Recycled or new printing paper.
Their village community people have been working day and night writing by hand. With the help of computer and Internet they will also be able to help get the information of their neighbouring Niubizi Village out sooner.
