APPEAL FOR JAMMU AND KASHMIR EARTHQUAKE
RELIEF AND REHABILITATION

From: Ashima Kaul and Yoginder Sikand


Early morning on Saturday, October 8th 2005, the lives
of thousands of people in Jammu and Kashmir changed
forever. A massive earthquake measuring 7.6 on the
Richter scale destroyed homes, families, towns and
villages. Uri and its surrounding areas and Tangdhar
sector in Kupwara in Kashmir Division and Poonch in
Jammu Division in the Indian-administered part of
Jammu and Kashmir have been particularly affected. The
grave human tragedy calls for urgent help from all
sections of the society. Especially now when winter is
approaching and it is extremely difficult for people
to bear the cold winter chill. In this hour of need,



Yakjah Reconciliation and Development
Network (YRDN)

In
collaboration with

Society for Consumer Protection and
Environment (SCOPE)



Has decided to extend all possible help and support by
offering volunteering services for networking and long
term intervention in the affected areas. We appeal to
all those who receive this appeal to generously
donate. Your donations will make a difference to the
families of those who have lost loved ones, homes and
much more.

Donations should be in the form of crossed cheques or
demand draft, payable to SCOPE, which would be the
nodal organization based in Jammu from where relief
would be directed to Poonch and Kashmir (Uri). Yakjah
would extend help in coordinating, networking and
monitoring the local groups in identified villages in
Poonch and Uri.

In case you are based in Bangalore or Delhi and have
warm clothes, blankets, sheets, sleeping bags etc. (in
good condition) to donate, which we will send on to
Poonch and Uri, please get in touch with Ashima Kaul
(Delhi, cell no. 09868868746) or Yoginder Sikand
(Delhi cell no. 9899437610) or Ali Sharif (Bangalore,
cell no. 9880365936)

NOTE: For any queries please get in touch with:

Yakjah Reconciliation and Development Network

Address:

C-8 Press Apartments, 23 I.P.Extension, Delhi –110 092
(India)
Phone: Ashima Kaul in Delhi – 09868868746, Yoginder
Sikand in Delhi – 09899437610, Pradeep Dutta in Jammu-
09419118514 and Syed Shahnawaz in Srinagar-
09419014344

E-Mail- ashimakb@..., ysikand@...

Yakjah is a group of Kashmiri and non-Kashmiri
professionals based in New Delhi, Jammu, Kashmir,
Bangalore, Calcutta and Mumbai. They have been working
with Kashmiri children through creative media for the
last three years (since 2002) to reconcile different
ethnic and communal groups in Jammu and Kashmir so as
to battle the forces of militancy, polarization,
communal divide and corruption.

Society for Consumer Protection and Environment
(SCOPE)

Address:

7, Panj Bakhtar Road, Jammu Tawi, Jammu and Kashmir,
(India).
Phone- 91- 191- 2548534 (Office) and Anu Sharma-
09811163931

E-Mail- scope@... and
anu.sharma@...

Website- www.scopeforchange.org

The Society for Consumer Protection and Environment
[SCOPE] was founded in 1990 in Jammu City, Jammu &
Kashmir, India, by Dr. TN Shalla of the Law Department
of Jammu University. SCOPE was later registered under
the J&K Societies Registration Act in 1996 under its
Executive Committee (Registration No. 2613-S of 1996).
Throughout its early years, SCOPE was active in
promoting consumer rights on a variety of issues,
including traffic safety, pollution, deforestation,
pollution of environment by plastics, fuel
adulteration, tampering of rickshaw meters, etc. In
later years, it engaged in several voluntary programs
funded by agencies such as NACO, the British Council,
the Indian Oil Corporation, etc. Starting in 2001,
SCOPE has also started Chhaya, a center for women's
empowerment through training in tailoring skills.
Beginning in March 2005, SCOPE has been preparing for
a major programme in Good Governance that will be
sponsored by the Parternship for Transparency Fund
(Washington, DC), which will be led by a newly-formed
Legal Committee. SCOPE has also been preparing to
implement a Dairy Development Project in rural Jammu
District to be sponsored by the Government of India's
National Dairy Development Board (NDDB).