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Posted by admin on September 2nd, 2010
Los Angeles, CA, September 1, 2010
Following monsoon rains that have unleashed the worst flooding
in Pakistan in 80 years, International Medical Corps continues
to support displaced people through 26 mobile medical teams
serving the hardest hit areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province (KPK)
in the northwest.
Posted by admin on September 2nd, 2010
WAM Islamabad, Sep 01st, 2010 (WAM) — The medical team sent by
the UAE Red Crescent Authority (RCA) has started its drive to
vaccinate the inhabitants of Nowshera city, which was worst hit
by the recent floods. The vaccination campaign implemented in
cooperation with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
aims to immunize children against measles and women in
childbearing age against tetanus.
Posted by admin on September 2nd, 2010
ISLAMABAD: ILO has launched Cash for Work programme for
flood-affected people in Nowshera & Peshawar ILO has started
helping the flood-affected communities in quickly restarting
livelihoods and employment through immediate short-term
employment recovery programmes.
Posted by admin on September 2nd, 2010
THEY ALREADY fled their homes once, leaving behind Afghanistan’s
war for the safety of Pakistan.
Now thousands of Afghan refugees fear they will have to move on
once again as property developers eye their camps, where homes
have been reduced to splinters and rubble by Pakistan’s floods
Posted by admin on August 30th, 2010
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) cabinet has suspended 336
new schemes of the Annual Development Programme (ADP), which
were to be undertaken in the current fiscal year and shifted Rs
17 billion, earmarked for these schemes, to the fund set up for
flood-stricken people across the province.
Posted by admin on August 30th, 2010
PABBI, Pakistan —
Five-year-old Shahid Khan struggled to remain conscious in his
hospital bed as severe diarrhea threatened to kill him. His
father watched helplessly, stricken at the thought of losing his
son – one of the only things the floods had not already taken.
Posted by admin on August 30th, 2010
WAM Islamabad, 29th Aug. 2010 (WAM) — Starting from today and
till the end of the holy month of Ramadan, Internally Displaced
Persons (IDPs) in Nowshera will get hot iftar meals from the UAE
Red Crescent Authority.
NOWSHERA: The flood victims allegedly broke into the store of the
Society for Skills and Trainings Development (SSTD) and took away
relief items on Tuesday. Hundreds of the flood victims belonging to
Pir Sabak, Hakimabad and Cantonment Area, who had been without food
for days, looted food items and 1,600 bags of flour...
NOWSHERA: The Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) leader MNA Marvi
Memon Tuesday said the Pakistan People’s Party-led government had
failed to respond to the flood disaster despite having support of
the opposition...
PESHAWAR: Gandhara Hindko Board, a literary, cultural and social
welfare organisation, arranged a free medical camp for the flood-hit
people of Akora Khattak town in Nowshera district...
ISLAMABAD: MOL Pakistan Oil & Gas dispatched the second consignment
of relief goods to help people in the flood-affected district of
Nowshera. The consignment includes five trucks of relief goods
containing tents, food items and medicines. The relief goods were
handed over to District Administration Nowshera/Pak Army by Managing
Director, MOL Pakistan, János Feher, in a simple ceremony at
Nowshera...
Relief organization World Vision said Tuesday that contaminated
water, cramped living conditions and a lack of sanitation in Sukkur,
a city of about 500,000 in Pakistan’s Sindh province, are causing a
rapid increase in cases of diarrhea and skin diseases in children...
The telecoms emergency aid charity, Telecoms sans Frontieres (TSF)
says that it has now set up eight centres in Pakistan to assist aid
agencies with communications services and help stranded locals phone
relatives to assure them of their situation...
ISLAMABAD, Aug 23 (APP): Turkey will establish a relief town for
10,000 flood affected people in Nowshera. About 50 TIR trucks and a
train with 550 tonnes relief material will bring the necessary
material from Turkey. Turkish Red Crescent Society, in cooperation
with Pakistan Red Crescent Society, will carry out this operation...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, 15-20 August 2010
Day one: First full day of briefings in Islamabad.
The scale of the disaster is unbelievable – and somehow still not
understood outside Pakistan. It is a ‘slow-evolving, rapid on-set
emergency.’...
Flooding in
Pakistan has already created a humanitarian
crisis of extreme proportions, but looming over
the region is the threat of an associated
disaster – human trafficking. As the scale of
the crisis worsens with an estimated 15 million
people already affected and two million homes
destroyed, the threat of trafficking is growing.
According to human rights expert, Dr Tahmina
Rashid, human trafficking was already a very
real threat before the flooding and now, as the
monsoonal rains threaten further south, more
people stand to be affected by trafficking. She
noted Pakistan’s southern province of Sindh,
saying it was particularly bad. “Sindh is a hub
for human trafficking at the best of times,” Dr
Rashid told The Epoch Times, adding, “Anytime
there is a natural disaster and human mobility,
it will happen,”...
NOWEHERA:
Mohammad Saad spends much of his day time at the
Aba Khel Chowk. He waits there till he manages
to get a pouch of cooked meal, which is often
looted more than once before a consignment
reaches this locality situated just two
kilometers from Nowshera city. “We come here
every morning to collect some relief items,
including food, mainly provided by NGOs, but the
problem is that much of the aid is looted in
between, leaving precious little for people
waiting on this tail end,” Mr Saad, a class 10
student, told Dawn while sitting beside his
co-villager at Aba Khel Chowk. These people live
at Barmakha Khel, an area just a kilometre away
from the left bank of the River Kabul and few
dozens steps away from Aba Khel Chowk....