Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 16, 2005

My friend, Zoe Krylova, has posted a letter on her blog, Vale of Evening Fog , from a friend of a friend of a friend who is a nursing/midwifery student at Yale and spent two weeks doing relief work in Pakistan. UNHCR Pakistan Midwife Earthquake

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Pakistan Disaster Student Fun 40

Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

As disaster relief organizations scramble to understand the situation on the ground, desperate needs for emergency food, shelter, and medical care go unmet. Instead, what if technology could prevent some of the destruction and improve aid delivery after a disaster? What if it didn't have to be that way? Mobile technology solutions.

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South Africa Disaster Hurricane Pakistan 50

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 12, 2006

Rod Beckstrom, prominent Silicon Valley tech executive, was in Pakistan during the great quake (although not in the quake zone when the big one hit). The only open platform for sharing information came out of University Lahore where some students and professors put together a solution called "RisePak."

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Pakistan Disaster Wiki Google 100

Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2012

This charity also has offices in India , Nepal , and Tanzania operates its own projects and supports partners in Tanzania, India, and Nepal and works on behalf of children in places like the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Pakistan, Peru, Cambodia, China, and Bangladesh. It has just 20 UK-based staff.

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