SIFE UNSW Fundraiser - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part I Movie Night

You're invited to a special charity event, hosted at Burwood cinemas (located within Westfield Burwood which is near the station).

Date:Saturday 27th November

Time: 6.30pm

Prices: $14 for a Ticket

$21 for a Small Combo and Ticket

$22 for a Medium Combo and Ticket

$56 for 4 tickets with one ticket free!

CrisisCamp Pakistan Floods in Sydney

Help the Pakistan flood victims using your existing skills

What: CrisisCamp Pakistan Floods in Sydney

When: 4th and 5th of September 8am-5pm

Where: LAW 203 , The Clayton Utz Room, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Kensington, Sydney

http://www.venuesandevents.unsw.edu.au/venues/law/lawindex.html

Please come along if you have:

1 mapping experience or
2 can code/program or
3 can research for information on the internet or
4. speak local Pakistani languages or
5. are familiar with the geography of Pakistan or
6. generally understand disaster response

There will be an information session on the CrisisCamp on the 3rd of September 2-4pm in the Roundhouse Marsh Room as part of the SIFE Induction Day.

The Pakistan Floods are without question one of the largest humanitarian catastrophe of modern time, with over 15 million people now homeless.

If you are interested in making a small difference in helping the humanitarian effort of attending to the short and long-term needs of the displaced peoples in Pakistan, register here (http://pkfloods-sydney.eventbrite.com/) The CrisisCamp will be on the weekend of 4th and 5th of September. We will be going through a number of tasks that will help the aid agencies on the ground. These include:

• Adding reports of emergency incidents from the ground to http://pakreport.org/ushahidi/ using  http://pakreport.crowdflower.com

• Working with expatriate Pakistanis who can help you translate local terms and names of places for entry into the reports

• Reading reports from relief agencies, identifying information about hospitals, shelters and schools and adding the data about their locations, capacity and other relief-related information to Sahana and OpenStreetMap

• Tracing satellite imagery to add the location of roads and infrastructure

• If you are an expat Pakistani who speaks Pushto, Seraiki, Sindhi or Panjabi come along and help find the names of remote villages.

• Documenting lessons learned from the CrisisCamp to help others

• Writing tools and software help automate the above tasks

Why organise this CrisisCamp?

In late July 2010 after an unusually wet monsoon across South Asia, substantial areas of Pakistan were flooded, affecting nearly a third of the country. UNOCHA has described the Pakistan Floods as a disaster surpassing the Boxing day Tsunami, Pakistan Earthquake and Haiti Earthquake combined in terms of the number of people affected and the social and economic destruction caused. Pakistan was already suffering socially and economically from the effects of the conflict in the region. Without help, this disaster could have untold long-term consequences for the future of the most vulnerable in Pakistan.

Who is organizing this camp?

To assist in the relief efforts, an enterprising team of volunteers and organisational supporters such as Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) at the University of New South Wales, and Drumbeat, an open web initiative of the Mozilla Foundation and the World Bank  are coming together on the weekend of September 4-5, 2010 in  CrisisCamp in Sydney, Australia. This event is sponsored by the CIE, World Bank and Arc.