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(UPDATED: Thursday, December 14, 2005) STATUS REPORT: ADRA's Response to South Asia Earthquake ADRA international responded immediately after an earthquake measuring around 7.6 on the Richter scale struck Pakistan, India and Afghanistan on October 8, 2005. The massive earthquake left over 73,000 dead, 128,000 injured and several millions without homes in one of poorest parts of the world.
In it’s first shipment of aid, ADRA International airlifted 20 boxes of medicine from Malaysia to the Islamabad airport to help earthquake survivors. Each box can treat 1,000 patients for 90 days. The boxes were used for distribution by small medical teams in rural areas. In addition ADRA dispatched a medical team to the Kashmir region to assist with the distribution of medical supplies and attend to the health concerns of those injured in the earthquake. ADRA’s first phase of relief operations also provided 300 tents, 300 food packages, 300 blankets and 300 jerry cans for 300 families in Mohala Khajgan and Mohala Saddat in the Distric Bagh. To coordinate relief efforts on the ground, ADRA set up an office in Rawalpindi, a city close to Islambad, Pakistan, and a field office in District Bagh, where authorities gave ADRA permission to begin relief activities.
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ADRA international responded immediately after an earthquake measuring around 7.6 on the Richter scale struck Pakistan, India and Afghanistan on October 8, 2005. The massive earthquake left over 73,000 dead, 128,000 injured and several millions without homes in one of poorest parts of the world. 
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