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An elderly resident wraps the milk packs he received in a blanket.
Food and safe drinking water have become scarce in many remote areas since the quake.
IRC distribution team supervisor Taimoor Khrisro hands out high-energy biscuits to supplement the villagers' diet.
A man stands with an armful of quilts distributed by the IRC. Bedding and layers of clothing are the only protection from the cold many residents will have until winterized tents can arrive.
A boy cranes his neck to see the front of the line.
Residents line up and wait behind the IRC trucks for their turn to receive aid.
With much of the village made unihabitable by the quake, most of its residents have been forced to live in makeshift tents in a cornfield.
They said that about 350 houses have been damaged with an unknown number totally destroyed.
Villagers told the IRC team that 38 of the 45 people killed in the village were women.
Faisal asks the residents about quake damage and loss of life in the village.
Faisal Israr, left, from the IRC's Peshawar office greets residents made homeless by the quake. The IRC team brought the first help the village had seen since the quake hit.
The IRC team had to hike over flattened houses and between precariously leaning walls to reach the village center.
Before the quake, residents used a gondola suspended 400 feet above the river to ferry back and forth to the paved road. The only way to reach Hotil now is down the steep path into the river gorge, across an unstable suspension bridge and back up the other side.
An IRC vehicle makes its way across a section of road wiped out by a landslide near Hotil.
The remote village of Hotil lies on the side of a mountain over the Kunhar river.
October 2005 - Hotil, Pakistan - Perched high on a cliff over a rocky stretch of the Kunhar River, villagers in this mountain hamlet have been coping alone since the massive earthquake on October 8. With landslides blocking the road to the nearest town more than a week after the quake, no aid reached the village until an International Rescue Committee emergency relief team arrived on October 19 with food, water and warm quilts. IRC information officer Scott Anger accompanied the team and shared the following photos.
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(October 2005) International Rescue Committee emergency teams are delivering emergency supplies, administering critical medical care and counseling services and beginning crucial water and sanitation assistance in underserved and hard-to-access villages and hamlets in quake-ravaged areas of Pakistan. | |
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