The MotorSports Club of Pakistan and OffroadPakistan collected enough funding to take 6 trucks full of relief goods valued at more then Rs.2.4 Million: They had basic food supplies, food hampers and tents and water bottles along with ready-to-eat-biryani. The plan was to identify a location and set up a camp with shelter of the 70 tents they had and try and feed 650 mouths – Both Faisal and Awab tweeted frequent updates and had a live chat stream open on CoverITLive so the community could follow them.

Some learnings they shared with the group?
- While the canned biryani was great to keep the rice fresh, opening it DID require added effort.
- Sukkur apparently has boring water which means they have drinking water available, hence if you’re headed out in the same area, you should focus on bringing in food supplies.

Details of this relief effort have been made possible because Awab and Faisal were both sending frequent updates through Twitter. While they obviously have a grave responsibility to ensure that all supplies are equally distributed, we simply wanted to piece their photographs and tweets together and salute a group that celebrated Pakistan’s 63rd year of Independence in the only way they knew how: by delivering on a promise they made to serve their fellow citizens. Of course, they will be the only ones who can share the actual accounts of the effort and we hope they will do so upon their safe return to Karachi.

The group will be conducting a second round of relief aid after more fundraising. If you’d like to find out how you can help, please visit teeth.com.pk/blog or sarelief.com

Here are also some photographs to Twitpic and Tweetphoto which were uploaded by the guys:

Identifiying a camp site that can accomodate 70 tents
Imran Hussain supervises the set up of their tent
Offloading the Truck with supplies
Offloading the Truck with more supplies
Trucks containing tents and nonperishable food items
Sindh Countryside
River Indus at its high point
Map to ground zero
Handing over Ready-to-Eat Biryani and water to an SARelief Tent enclave
Food brings smiles
The group takes a brief stop to break their fast
Trucks parked in the Staging area
Warehousing the guys are using in Sukkur
Plan to feed 630 mouths in the space for 70 tents
Offloading continues into the warehouse  and then some
Offloading water

(All photographs point back to the links where Dr. Awab and Faisal uploaded them.)

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