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Give to the World’s trusted partner in Pakistan is Comprehensive Disaster Response Services (CDRS), a local 501c(3) created by American Todd Shea after his deployment to Pakistan in October 2005 to assist with earthquake relief efforts. CDRS provides both emergency response and long-term support to Pakistan’s remote areas, providing much needed logistics and medical support services to communities in need. They have a well-experienced team of logisticians, medical personnel and volunteers who have extensive experience, and an in-depth understanding of local conditions, geography and culture. GTTW helps CDRS’ medical teams by providing the medical supplies and pharmaceuticals that are critical to CDRS’ operations. Since 2013, GTTW has helped CDRS treat over 250,000 patients for various health care services and operations.
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Performing limb correction surgeries
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Afghanistan
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Our organization started in 2003 in the hills of Afghanistan, where our founder began humanitarian distributions to help stabilize Afghanistan after the start of the war. From 2008-2013 GTTW distributed 180 shipments of basic humanitarian supplies throughout Afghanistan.
In one village where Give to the World provided support, one of the small huts contained just a single room with two men, a woman, and four small children. Temperatures in the winter were routinely below zero and the earth in their area had been wiped free of trees during the Soviet occupation. The family was only able to generate a small warming and cooking fire from the dug-up roots that remained. One of the men had lost a leg from a landmine in the 1980s and was unable to provide for the family, while the other man, his brother, walked 15 miles a day with their handful of goats to find enough grass to feed the tiny flock. Give to the World provided them a large supply of food, water, blankets and clothes to improve their chances of survival. The excess material from the clothing and blankets could be used as windows to cover the openings in the side of their hut. Additionally, GTTW provided the children with school supplies and stuffed animals. The family was so overwhelmed that tears ran down the face of the men, whose cheeks had been weathered by years of hardship. The children smiled from ear to ear. Within a couple of months, Give to the World adopted the orphanage in Golbahar, Afghanistan and continued to supply thousands of pounds of material for the children for over a decade. These efforts remain a critical pillar of stabilization. |
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