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Pod#168 - Sharmeen & Talha - Relief efforts for Pakistan's flood disaster
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Returning guest Sharmeen Khan and new guest Talha Rehman join us to talk about how relief efforts work in light of disasters like the 2022 Pakistan floods. If you're looking to learn more about things you need to know and how to start contributing, jump in!
Things discussed in this episode:
00:00 Intro
01:38 Introductions! Sharmeen and Talha’s histories of relief works and how they met
07:49 Mention of 2022’s catastrophic floods has started to go away in Pakistani media
14:05 Quick pros and cons of the NDMA (we’ll come back to this later too)
16:44 How the requirements of those displaced by disasters change over time
23:48 Over a decade of floods later, did we learn and implement anything BEFORE the 2022 disaster?
29:12 All these villages destroyed, any hope of them being rebuilt?
37:46 How to keep donations coming in when news channels go away, and justified donor fatigue
41:21 How technology has helped create efficiencies in relief and donation efforts
46:13 What should people keep in mind when donating? What research to do, what to donate.
55:03 Returning to NDMA’s performance over the years, talking about the need for empathy
1:00:53 Outro
LINKS:
Umair's post about charities: https://www.instagram.com/p/ChuaVgWjGjz/
Shehzeen's fundraiser: https://www.gofundme.com/f/lasbelafloods
Sharmeen's Twitter: https://twitter.com/K_Sharmeen
Talha's twitter: https://twitter.com/DrTalhaRehman
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