Families have set up temporary shelters away from flood waters in Sindh province, Pakistan.
How can I help?
These devastating floods have come at a time when local communities had already seen their resilience pushed to breaking point by previous monsoon rains.
“Community World Service Asia (CWSA) is fortunate to have an experienced team on the ground. Many belong to the flood-affected areas and have strong links with local communities and government departments. Our response is focusing on cash for food and access to basic healthcare through mobile health units in the province of Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.”
What has happened in Pakistan?
Record monsoon rains and flash flooding across Pakistan has killed at least 1,100 people so far, with millions more displaced from their homes. Roads, crops, homes and bridges have all been washed away, in a situation described by Pakistan’s climate change minister Sherry Rehman as ‘a climate-induced humanitarian disaster of epic proportions.’
Pray for the people of Pakistan
Thirty million people have been affected by the floods, with millions of people left homeless.
The local organisation we work alongside in Pakistan has told us that there have been estimates of 1 million houses having been completely washed away, over 200 bridges and roads collapsing, and around 800,000 livestock having perished.
In Sindh province alone, the worst-affected area, the floods have killed more than 300 people, with people seeking out whatever dry patches of ground remain along the area’s narrow streets to pitch temporary shelter. People in the area had hardly started recovering from the shock of losing two seasons' worth of crops to the 2020 monsoons, when their crops were again this year completely destroyed.
What are the needs?
Millions are without food and shelter in the worst-affected areas of Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Sindh provinces. People have lost their homes, their cattle, their lands and their livelihoods, and urgently require humanitarian assistance. Affected communities immediately need clean drinking water, food, emergency medical assistance and shelter.
How is CAFOD responding?
The local Pakistani organisation that CAFOD works with in the area, Community World Service Asia (CWSA), is already responding, with a focus on Sindh, and is meeting with those affected to assess the humanitarian needs. CAFOD has already committed £100,000 to support the emergency response, with CWSA’s emergency response team preparing immediate relief.
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Many humanitarian situations can escalate quickly so having regular donations that we can depend on gives us the flexibility and agility we need to respond and react to emergencies whenever they strike.
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