ABOUT US
Comprehensive Disaster Response Services (CDRS) has been registered in AJK since 2006, as a Social Welfare Society for disaster relief and development work under The Pakistan Societies Registration Act, 1860. In 2016, at the direction of the Interior Ministry of Pakistan, CDRS registered in Pakistan so we could continue legally operating in Pakistan. CDRS is a humanitarian relief and development organization responding to human suffering in emergency and disasters anywhere in Pakistan, serving Human Beings regardless of race, gender, ethnicity, class, location, religion, color, or background. In addition to our emergency relief efforts during or after natural or man-made disasters, we also work on long term health relief programs such as health system support and rehabilitation, Special Patients, Mother & Child Health Care, Youth Community Service, Women’s Empowerment and Animal Welfare. OVERVIEW
Comprehensive Disaster Response Services (CDRS) was created by Todd Shea after his deployment to Pakistan in October 2005 to assist with the earthquake relief efforts. Seeing great need would exist long after the emergency was over and having fallen in love with Pakistan and its people, Todd decided to stay in Pakistan. Todd and CDRS were awarded the Tamgha-i-Eisaar medal from Pakistan and the organization has deployed hundreds of volunteers to serve the most deserving communities in Pakistan. Disaster Response Expertise (Emergencies and Long Term): CDRS has responded to multiple disasters in Pakistan, providing much needed logistics and medical support services to communities in need. We have a well-experienced team of logisticians, medical personnel and volunteers who have extensive experience, and an in-depth understanding of local conditions, geography and culture. CDRS has a rapid deployment team which goes into disasters, and following detailed needs assessment, we provide humanitarian assistance; supplies, security and logistics support to medical teams; livelihood assistance as well as help communities with localized needs. CDRS works in close collaboration with all levels of government, regional and national partner agencies to help rehabilitate and revive local communities and re-established their destroyed health facilities and devastated healthcare systems. OUR TEAM HAS RESPONDED TO THE FOLLOWING NATIONAL EMERGENCIES:
• March 2020 – May 2021 – Covid-19 Pandemic (Food distribution all over Pakistan)
• September – October 2020 – Floods in Sindh (Food, Water, Mosquito Nets, Tents distribution in Umerkot, Badin, Thar, and Karachi)
• Oct 2015 – March 2016 – Earthquake in KPK (Mobile Medical Teams and Tents distribution in KPK)
• June 2015 – Heat Wave Emergency (Distributed Food, Water and Medicines in Karachi)
• Sept 2014 – Jan 2015 – Floods (Mobile Medical Teams in Punjab and AJK)
• July 2014 – May 2015 – N. Waziristan IPDs Crisis (Health System Support & Medical Teams in Bannu)
• Sept 2013 – Floods (Mobile Medical Team in District Kasur)
• Sept 2011 – Aug 2012 – Floods (Food Distribution & Medical Teams in Districts Badin, Thar and Mirpurkhas)
• Aug 2010 – July 2011 – Floods (Mobile Medical Teams deployed for the first three months of the disaster. Long term Maternal and Child Health Projects were begun after the emergency and implemented in Charsadda, KPK, Civil Hospital in Shikarpur, Sindh and Bagh Dheri Hospital in Swat, KPK)
• Sept 2009 – Monsoon Crisis (Medical Teams in Sindh)
• June 2009 – Aug 2008 – Swat IDPs Crisis (Medical Teams and relief distribution in Mardan and Swabi)
• Oct 2005 – Nov 2011 – Earthquake in Azad Kashmir (Health System Support and Medical Teams in AJK)
Since 2005, CDRS has delivered medical care and relief services to 2.5 million Human Beings impacted by disaster, and provided essential food and supplies, helping to save lives and rehabilitate communities.
