A year on from the floods that affected a total of 20 million people in Pakistan, that's more than the amount of people affected by the Haiti earthquake and the 2004 Tsunami put together, there are still so many people who continue to be victims to the after effects of the floods. As well as this, fresh flooding in the Sindh province has meant the suffering is ongoing and millions desperately await relief.
Oxfam has been hard at work helping the victims to try and get them back on their feet. Oxfams work to date so far in the country includes providing 1.6 million people with clean water and sanitation as part of our flood response, which has been vital in flooded areas where any possibly clean water has been contaminated. Oxfam also ran a 'Cash for Work' scheme to those whose livelihoods were washed away. The scheme worked by getting villagers to help build such things as water pumps in return for an income which meant they could feed their family. Children affected by the floods were also educated in personal hygiene, these basic techniques can be vital in such cases as floods where cholera and dysentary can be big causes of death.
Photos and videos of Oxfams relief efforts can be viewed here.
However there are still so many people continually being affected as a result of malnutrition and those who simply are still in need of emergency aid such as blankets as a result of recent flooding and heavy rains.
According to the BBC's update on the floods 6.2 million people still need healthcare, 64 thousand need shelter, 5.6 million are in desperate need of food aid and 800,000 need water and sanitation. The full article can be found here on the BBC's website.
You can still donate and do your bit to help the millions who are still suffering from the floods one whole year on from the disaster at the Oxfams Website.
No comments:
Post a Comment