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Pakistan Floods - 6 month update

Pakistan Floods - 6 month update – 21 Feb 2011

It’s six months since Pakistan endured the worst flooding in living memory, affecting some 20 million people and damaging or destroying an estimated 1.7 million homes. Since then Tearfund has been helping tens of thousands of people and here we report on our recovery efforts. The flood waters may have long subsided in Pakistan but the basic needs created by last summer’s disaster still linger.

View this short film by our local partner to see how they are responding (Nov 2010).

On just one day last month in southern Sindh, 500 people queued up in the village of Sikander to receive a package from Tearfund containing various food items and warm blankets. Many of those in the orderly queue had clubbed together to travel to the distribution point, illustrating that six months on the needs of flood survivors remain pressing. Tearfund has been responding alongside four partners, SSEWA-Pak, the Diocese of Hyderabad, the Adult Basic Education Society and Partner Aid International.

Generosity

Tearfund has supplied some 73,000 people with food since last summer. Crockery, mosquito nets, plastic sheeting for shelter, health and hygiene kits have been distributed too. Toilets and educational transitional centres have also been established, while more than 7,000 people have received help to restart their farming livelihoods.

Over the next 18 months, we’ll also be providing long term support to rebuild homes, livelihoods, health care, water and sanitation, as well as awareness-raising activities to reduce the impact of any future disasters.

Plans for the future

Ashraf Mall, Tearfund’s Country Representative for Pakistan, said, ‘We will be working with communities, rebuilding houses that are more resilient to future floods and helping to re-establish small businesses. This is the root of recovery and it is giving hope to many families.’

Working through local partners, Tearfund will be continuing with food-related projects until March as the need remains immense. The Sindh provincial government estimates that about 90,000 children aged 6 to 59 months are malnourished.

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