World Vision Quickly Winterizes Tents, Shelters in Pakistan
World Vision is once again declaring the urgency and desperate need for winterized tents and community areas, calling it a priority as the organization continues to distribute shelters and materials to keep survivors warm during the deadly-cold winte
World Vision is once again declaring the urgency and desperate need for winterized tents and community areas, calling it a priority as the organization continues to distribute shelters and materials to keep survivors warm during the deadly-cold winter months.
As one of the largest humanitarian organizations in the United States, World Vision (WV) has been spreading its efforts around the globe with the unusually high number of natural disasters this year. Yet, Pakistan quake victims remain one of WV’s main focuses in its relief efforts and winterized tents currently the highest priority.
WV has distributed non-food items including tents, tarpaulins, shelter kits, blankets, quilts, kitchen sets and jerry cans to some 47,200 survivors in Balakot, Jabouri, Sachan Kalan, Jacha and Manda Gucha areas.
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In Manda Gucha in the Siron Valley, shelter kits containing corrugated galvanized sheets, roofing nails, wire and cutters are being distributed to families in the village to winterize tents against wind and snow.
“World Vision staff will set up a winterized tent in Manda Gucha using the winterization kit so that families can see how the materials should be used to optimize their effectiveness,” said incoming Operations Manager Frank Lyman on the way to winterize a Child Friendly Space in Balakot.
All nine Child Friendly Spaces will be winterized as well as some 17 tents, which are to be used as temporary schools.
“The tents and iron sheets provided by World Vision have helped people to protect themselves and their children from the cold,” reported Mustafa to WV.
And 35-year-old Yaqoob testified to this, stating that World Vision had provided him and his three children with a winterized tent and blankets and quilts that “have helped a lot to keep the children warm.”
Without them, he said “they would have died in the freezing temperatures.”
