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“The quake was violent beyond words. And the children were in school…”
Tent camp, post earthquake, November 2005
“Generated by the quake, there was a fiendish, from-Hell roar, and their little bodies were knocked flat to the floor to be pummeled 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.”
My name is Sam Carpenter. I wrote wrote those words in November 2005 while in northern Pakistan and Azad Kashmir just after the Oct. 8 earthquake that killed over 73,000, left 3 million homeless, and destroyed more than 1,000 hospitals as well 8,000 of the region’s 11,000 primary and secondary schools.
Sawera school students, morning assembly
Upon returning to my home in Bend, Oregon, USA, I created Kashmir Family Aid, a non-profit 501(c)(3) . The primary goal is to counter poverty in the region by providing secular education to quake-affected children.
No politics. No religion.
Sawera School students
We are looking for corporate sponsors and individuals to sustain several projects in Pakistan ranging from building a school in the tiny, high elevation and very remote village of Serli Sacha, to assisting The Sewara Foundation that has schools in Muzaffarabad and elsewhere in Azad Kashmir and the northern areas of Pakistan. We are also coordinating aid through IBTIDA foundation. For more information, please see “Our Projects.”
For more information, contact me :
Sam Carpenter
541-385-1234
samc@kashmirfamily.org
Sawera School, Muzffarabad, Azad Kashmir
