Sieghard Göschl (Gerfried's brother) and Hasil Shah taking a brake during their aid work in Besham, NW Pakistan (click to enlarge).
A group of volunteers from Shimshal Valley (in the image posing with two army soldiers) helped out with the relief work. Rainer Göschl is the tall man in a blue sweater and baseball cap (click to enlarge).
The Göschl family raised US$141,000. However, there is still much to do in areas affected by the October 8 earthquake. All images courtesy of Gerfried Göschl (click to enlarge).
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Pakistan quake update: Göschl family hard at work
Posted: Feb 28, 2006 11:09 am EST
(K2Climb.net) Austrian climber Gerfried Göschl grabbed some headlines on ExplorersWeb last spring, when he summited Shisha Pangma and Everest w/o O2 in under a month. This year Gerfried is reporting to ExplorersWeb on his 'family business.'
“Last October my father Rainer Göschl and my mother Katharina were in Pakistan, exactly at the time of the earthquake,” Gerfried said. “They witnessed the tragedy. Back home, my father founded a charity drive in our homeland Styria (Austria). Many people pitched in and we were able to raise money.”
Happy Christmas from the Göschls
Before Christmas, the Göschl family had distributed three trucks full of first-necessity items. For the task, they counted on the help from Pakistani climber Hasil Shah and a group of local volunteers from the Shimshal valley.
Now Gerfried has updates us on the operation's progress:
”My father Rainer and my brother Sieghard have been in Besham for some weeks to coordinate our help for the earthquake victims in Pakistan,” he reports.
A huge shopping list
“Up to now they’ve invested 117,400 Euro (around 141,000 USD) for aid in Pakistan’s affected areas. They’ve helped around 1,919 families (up to 17,500 people) and distributed the following items:
70,000 kg flour
7,000 liters cooking oil
14,000 kg sugar
33,500 kg rice
800 kg tea
2,200 warm sheds
1,680 pieces of cloth
The supplies were loaded onto 23 trucks and taken from Islamabad to Besham. We are grateful to Hasil Shah and his friends from Shimsal."
The October 8th earthquake killed some 75,000 people and left 3.5 million homeless, most of whom are now living in tents unsuitable the harsh winter. The quake struck a 30,000 square km area across the mountains.
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