[Ten Dollar Projects]Afghanistan-Pakistan Earthquake Relief Aid

Desperate victims have appealed for blankets, warm clothes and food after Monday's magnitude-7.5 quake ripped through the region, killing nearly 390 people and levelling thousands of homes and forcing many to camp out in the open. Pakistani men remove debris from their damaged house following an earthquake PHOTO: Pakistani men remove debris from their damaged house following an earthquake. (AFP: Hasham Ahmed) Rugged terrain, severed communication lines and an unstable security situation have impeded relief efforts since the disaster, and local officials said they had few supplies to hand after the region was devastated by floods just three months ago. "We usually have our own stock but we already consumed it during the floods so we were running out of stock during this earthquake," said Muhammad Bahadur, an official in the village of Darosh in Chitral, part of the Pakistani province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Mr Bahadur's village had just 70 tents on hand when the quake struck, he said. "Around 2,500 houses have been completely destroyed... Imagine how we can satisfy the need with only 70 tents?" he said.