Bishop Anthony Lobo of Islamabad-Rawalpindi spoke to the German-based international charity Aid to the Church in Need this week about the relief efforts under way in the wake of the quake that killed more than 73,000.
The prelate said that a team of Church-led volunteers with expert knowledge of the Kashmir region had unique access to areas largely inaccessible to many relief workers and would be able to find youngsters most in need of help.
Bishop Lobo, 68, explained that Catholic leaders desperate to help victims of the quake were drawing up plans for an orphanage after discovering scores of children abandoned and forgotten. A location for such an orphanage has yet to be chosen.
