Quake 2

The news from my parents in Pakistan is that my Mom's school ( yeah she teaches :-)) is closed since the Administration want to check cracks which have appeared in the building. Same goes for most other buildings. Had the Earthquake been a tad stronger; Allah knows what sort of devastation would have been unleashed on even more cities. As it is , the situation still seems bad. The relief effort has gained pace but has lots of problems. There are areas which still haven't been reached yet. Of course some of these areas were hard to reach even before the quake.

I remember my brother went on a Field Trip 7/8 years ago to the Northern Areas in Pakistan and he had to shave his head just just because the village he was going to only had people with shaved heads and any outsider with hair would not be that welcomed! So that just shows how cut off those Northern areas are from the rest of Pakistan and even if aid reaches them how hard it would be to communicate, etc etc.

The PSA ( Pakistani Students' Association) raised about $2500 through On campus fundraising this week which was great for a relatively new organization on our campus. I am hoping that the MSA is able to match PSA's efforts and work in tandem with them . Though it seems that last week was the best time to raise money ( with all the media coverage) and any effort now would find it hard to match itself to what the PSA did.

Meanwhile there are many more heartbreaking stories coming in.