Relief Team Returns to Earthquake-struck Region of Pakistan

The Salvation Army’s International Emergency Team is back at work in some of the areas of Pakistan affected badly by last October’s devastating earthquake.

Political unrest in the country led to the withdrawal of the team for a short while but Captain Mike McKee (International Headquarters Emergency Field Operations Officer) reports that the large and unpredictable demonstrations seem to be over. 'Our team is delighted to return and pick up where we left off,' he says.

Since returning to the area, the team has inspected a school where 319 pupils are being taught in tents and looked at several villages where help is needed as families attempt to return ‘home’ from the tented camps they had stayed in over the winter. According to team leader Brian Oxley – recently awarded the MBE for his international relief work with The Salvation Army – the challenge now is to identify and provide help to a village that would otherwise be forgotten.