Individuals and organisations in Oxfordshire are still working hard six months after a devastating earthquake struck Asia.

Although the disaster has disappeared from the headlines, people living in the affected areas are still reliant on help.

Residents of Oxfordshire raised thousands of pounds in the immediate aftermath of the quake, but now the need is for long-term rebuilding work.

More than 73,000 people in the area have died since October and 3.5m were made homeless.

Those who survived still face a daily struggle, living in temporary shelters and depending on food aid after harvests were lost and the winter planting disrupted.

Salman Khan, a 34-year-old from Oxford, has already taken £50,000 to Pakistan during two mercy missions.

He wants to raise the same amount again, but this time it is for rebuilding rather than an emergency appeal.

Once collected, the money will be used to provide schools, health and sanitation facilities, and help people get back to work.

Dr Khan said: "Things are still pretty bad. The one mitigating factor is that the weather is a lot better now. Earlier in the year it was freezing at night and it was snowy conditions, a real risk to people's survival.

"A lot of help is still needed and we have the whole problem of donor fatigue. People somehow think magically that, because it is not in the news, it must have been sorted out."

A county search and rescue team, which has made three visits to Pakistan, has been asked to return and help train locals to do similar work.

But the Henley-based Oxfordshire Search and Rescue (OSAR), manned entirely by volunteers, may not have the funds to go this time.

Commander-in-chief Gary Foo said: "What they have asked us to do is teach the local government and medical officials how to do what we do on an ongoing basis and help them set up their own teams, so we would be training them as we work.

"We definitely want to go back and the plan was to go in about two months' time, but the charity is a bit strapped at the moment."

Mumtaz Fareed, a community worker from Oxford, organised a dinner in November and raised more than £20,000.

He plans to visit Pakistan in the summer and hopes to raise more money on his return.