Flood waters in the country are continuing to move south, affecting more and more people as they do so. Mark arrived in Pakistan early this morning and travelled into the affected areas of Sindh.
‘There’s thousands of families living in the flooded area with no shelter, no clean drinking water and some people have had no food for five days,’ he said.
‘People are having to clean and cook with the flood water so waterborne disease are rife. As well as shelter people need medicine and clean water.’
The current aid effort is concentrated in the Khyber Pakhtunkwa province to the north but has been slow to reach families in the south.
Forgotten need
‘At this stage in the game the lack of aid here surprises me,’ continued Mark. ‘People here are in a very poor way and the scale of this is huge. The need is really big but there are very few others operating here.
‘People are living on 15ft strips of land, there are no roads functioning, only dust tracks, and with aid heading to the north this place feels forgotten about for sure.’
ShelterBox’s partners in Pakistan, NRSP (National Rural Support Programme) have moved 1,800 tents from Islamabad in Pakistan’s north to the Sindh province. These will be distributed immediately.
So far ShelterBox has committed emergency shelter for more than 61,000 people to Pakistan as well as water purification for 20,000 families.
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