“Tzu Chi is the first medical group who came to our hometown.” In the frigid weather condition, Pakistani earthquake survivors described how Tzu Chi volunteers brought kindness and warmth to their valley just like their own brothers.

A magnitude 7.6 earthquake on the Richter scale struck Kashmir, Pakistan on October 8th 2005. It was the most devastating disaster ever occurred in Pakistan. It also affected some neighboring countries including India and Afghanistan. According to the Untied Nation estimate, eighty thousand people killed, sixty thousand people injured, three million people left homeless, and one thousand hospitals and seven thousand schools destroyed.
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