"The quake was violent beyond words. And the children were in school when it came." KFA Blog
"Generated by the quake, there was a fiendish, from-Hell roar, and their little bodies were knocked flat to the floor to be pummelled over and over as they struggled to get up. Each surviving child endured the horror of the quake, and the trauma is evidenced by a vacant stare. About 20,000 children died. Looking in their eyes, one cannot mistake what has happened here."
Oregon resident Sam Carpenter wrote these words in 2005 while visiting Pakistan and Azad Kashmir after the Oct. 8 earthquake killed at least 73,000, left 3 million homeless and destroyed more than 1,000 hospitals and 8,000 of the region's 11,000 primary and secondary schools.
When Sam returned to the United States, he decided to found Kashmir Family Aid, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit based in Bend, Oregon. Our primary goal is to counter poverty in the region by providing secular education to quake-affected children.
No politics. No religion. We are looking for corporate sponsors and individuals to sustain specific projects in Pakistan ranging from building bathrooms and sponsoring children to supporting entire villages and schools. Please check out "Our Projects," and thank you for visiting us.
For more information, contact :
Christopher Stollar
541-385-1970
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