October 27, 2005,

Hereby a request for support from the All Pakistan Trade Union Federation:

Dear Friends,

This message calls for solidarity from all the organizations all over the world, asking them to contribute to the "APTUF Earthquake Relief Fund" it has set up to help provide victims with medicines, tents, blankets, food, drinking water and clothes.

The figures are stunning: the death toll may exceed 50,000 at the time we are writing. Thousands of children are still buried in the debris of their schools. About four millions people have been affected by the earthquake. Many roads are still blocked.

To help the victimize people, All Pakistan Trade Union Federation with collaboration of Working Women Organization and Progressive Youth Organization is setting up relief camps to help victims of earth quake.

APTUF has called for international solidarity. Meanwhile, it has resolved to ask all its members and office bearers to donate the equivalent of one day's earnings to the "APTUF Earthquake Relief Fund". It has mobilized its members to establish camps in NWFP and Azad Kashmir and affected provinces to help the victims.

On behalf of APTUF, WWO, PYO, we express our deepest sympathy for those families that have lost loved ones in the earthquake.

We request all people and organizations to kindly send tents, clothes, food, medicines, blankets and their donations to:

APTUF Earthquake Relief Fund
Contact:
All Pakistan Trade Union Federation
14 N, Gulberg Industrial Area, Gulberg, Lahore
Tel # 92- 42-5755078/5755079
Fax # 92-42-6665301
Email: aptuf@brain.net.pk

Working Women Organization ,
E5, 48/A, Rehmania Street, Zaman Colony,
Cavalry Ground Extension Lahore - Pakistan .
Tel:92-42-6686382/6686519
Email : wwo@brain.net.pk

In Solidarity,

Nasir Chaudhary,
Secretary
Information & International Affairs