Pod#168 - Sharmeen & Talha - Relief efforts for Pakistan's flood disaster

CHECK LINKS BELOW FOR FLOOD CHARITY SUPPORT   Returning guest Sharmeen Khan and new guest Talha Rehman join us to talk about how relief efforts work in light of disasters like the 2022 Pakistan floods. If you're looking to learn more about things you need to know and how to start contributing, jump in!   Things discussed in this episode:   00:00 Intro  01:38 Introductions! Sharmeen and Talha’s histories of relief works and how they met  07:49 Mention of 2022’s catastrophic floods has started to go away in Pakistani media  14:05 Quick pros and cons of the NDMA (we’ll come back to this later too)  16:44 How the requirements of those displaced by disasters change over time  23:48 Over a decade of floods later, did we learn and implement anything BEFORE the 2022 disaster?  29:12 All these villages destroyed, any hope of them being rebuilt?  37:46 How to keep donations coming in when news channels go away, and justified donor fatigue  41:21 How technology has helped create efficiencies in relief and donation efforts  46:13 What should people keep in mind when donating? What research to do, what to donate.  55:03 Returning to NDMA’s performance over the years, talking about the need for empathy  1:00:53 Outro   LINKS:  Umair's post about charities: https://www.instagram.com/p/ChuaVgWjGjz/  Shehzeen's fundraiser: https://www.gofundme.com/f/lasbelafloods   Sharmeen's Twitter: https://twitter.com/K_Sharmeen  Talha's twitter: https://twitter.com/DrTalhaRehman   Support the podcast by becoming a monthly patron on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/tprpod) or send a one-off token on Ko-fi (https://ko-fi.com/tprpod)!   Find all our previous episodes on SoundCloud, Spotify & Apple Podcasts and follow us all on Twitter! Links to everything below!  SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/tprpod Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6PvTahp... Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tprpod/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/TPRPod  Ali: https://twitter.com/themaholupper Rizwan: https://twitter.com/RizwanTakkhar Sarkhail: https://twitter.com/Sarkhail7Khan