Floods devastate families yet again.
15 September 2011
"This is another huge flood that has hit Pakistan in less than a year so it's really a double disaster. We have assessed 16 out of 22 districts and roughly 1.8 million people have left their homes and 750,000 are living in temporary sites". Aid Workers, 15 Sept 2011.
"More than 4.5 million acres of land had been affected by the rain and that nearly 60,000 cattle had either died or disappeared." Pakistan Govt Official, Sindh.
A boy looks out from his temporary shelter in a tree. Photograph: Waseem Qureshi/EPA.
Just as villages througout the province of Sindh were beginning to recover from the disasterous floods of 2010, devastation hits them once again, wiping out all attempts of reconstruction. Crops are washed away, livestock float dead in the water, homes are destroyed. The sight of families stranded on mud banks exposed to elements greet us once again and people are in need of relief in the form of food, mosquito nets, shelter...
Our Rapid Response Teams are ready to go, flood affected areas are just three hours away from our YWAM Karachi Centre so we are well positioned to help the villages and communities we have already been supporting since 2010.
Relatives of the YWAM Karachi staff have been badly affected, flood waters have penetrated several areas of the city of Karachi, inundating slums and poorly constructed areas. The marshy puddles which will be left behind by receeding waters will prove to be deadly breeding ground for mosquitos. People become at risk of dengue fever by day and malaria by night. There is no escape from disease without insecticides and mosquito nets. Dengue fever, a newcomer in Pakistan, has no cure, it is a virus carried by mosqitoes that began to multiply in the country after to 2010 floods.
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Read More:-
Tribune report of floods, Pakistan.
What We did last Year: Flood Relief 2010.
Watch the video of our distribution of vital resources, recorded by Awaaz TV in Sindh.
Thank you for the generosity that made this possible. Our flood relief effort is ongoing amongst displaced flood victims. Aug 2011.
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