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International Medical Corps Teams Treating Victims of Floods in Pakistan

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.

RCA team begins vaccination drive in Pakistan’s Nowshera city

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.

ILO launches ‘Cash for Work’ programme for flood victims

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.

Afghans fear development of flood-evacuated camps

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

KP diverts funds of 336 ADP schemes for flood victims’

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.

Millions of Pakistani kids risk waterborne disease

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.

RCA delivers 1500 iftar meals daily in Nowshera, opens clinic

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.

Angry flood victims loot food centre in Nowshera

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...

Marvi flays govt’s response to floods

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...

Free medical camp held at Akora

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...

MOL dispatches second consignment of relief goods

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...

Contaminated water in Pakistan causing diarrhea, skin infections: World Vision

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...

Telecoms Charity Deploys Eight Teams to Pakistan Floods

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...

Turkey to set up flood relief town in Nowshera

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...

Field diary: Six days in Pakistan flood zone

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.’...

Pakistani Flood Unleashes Wave of Human Trafficking

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,”...

For the tail end it’s crumbs only

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....