To follow up on its relief shipments to Pakistan earlier this year, Clear Path International has funded the education of 55 girls and young women whose school was destroyed by a powerful earthquake that shook the region a year ago.
In March, Clear Path sent two containers of medical equipment, surgical supplies and orthopedic devices to Mensehra near the epicenter of the earthquake. One of the containers also included hundreds of bags of clothes, tents, sleeping bags, tools, household goods, school supplies and other in-kind donations from more than 100 amilies on Bainbridge Island, Washington.
One of the containers was funded by the Rotary Club of Bainbridge Island, whose members also assisted in the collection of the relief goods at Sakai Elementary. The other container was funded by Susila Dharma International based in Vancouver, B.C.
After the shipments, Susila Dharma International provided more than $3,000 to Clear Path to help support the schooling of the girls in the Siran Valley in temporary quarters set up by Pak Relief & Development Society, a Pakistani non-governmental organization. Clear Path hopes to do more with additional funding from Susila Dharma Britain, an affiliated organization in the United Kingdom.
Funding so far has paid for the hiring of three teachers, school supplies, rent, utilities and equipment to continue the girls' education interrupted by the natural disaster and until their school can be rebuilt.
Pak Relief & Development distributed the relief shipments from Clear Path and other relief organizations, providing tents, blankets and clothes to 1,000 households in Siran Valley. It has also distributed tin roof sheets, cement bags and tools for home reconstruction and crop seeds for the late summer harvest.
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