Workers express satisfaction with relief for 2005 Pakistani quake

Published: 2006-10-06

NEW DELHI (CNS) -- Church workers coordinating relief work for the victims of the October 2005 earthquake that hit Pakistan said they are satisfied with what they have accomplished. About 75,000 people were killed and nearly 3 million people were rendered homeless when the powerful quake shook northern Pakistan and part of India. Jack Norman, Catholic Relief Services country representative in Pakistan, told Catholic News Service Oct. 6 that "looking back, we are satisfied with what we have done in (the) difficult circumstances." CRS is the U.S. bishops' international relief and development agency. Norman said in a telephone interview that CRS relief work started with rushing emergency food, medicine and shelter materials to thousands of quake-hit families stranded in the mountains. Most of the 5,000 winterized tents CRS provided to families in remote areas had to be carried for miles on workers' shoulders because access roads to the mountain villages had been damaged by massive landslides following the quake.

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