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The People of PakistanNeed Our Help
£25 will provide safe clean drinking water for a family of four for six months £10 will provide £100 of life saving aid £5 will provide £50 of life saving aid £20 will provide £200 of life saving aid
Thank you for responding to our August appeal for the victims of the Pakistan Floods. Your support has enabled us to distribute 300 water purification boxes (one box provides a family of four with clean safe drinking water for six months) along with household items in Basti Sidique, UC Noorpur Machiwala, Rajanpur District.
Our partner had identified the community by visiting each location where families had taken shelter - some under a tree, or a charpoi (a bed), a make shift canvas roof, or a room that was still standing.
A detailed assessment form was completed with information about family members and their priority needs, whether they had received any aid or not etc. The location, date and time for distribution was given to the assessed family and the head of household was requested to come to the selected location (a school) which was within walking distance.
We need your help to provide more vital aid. We have more water purification equipment to send—enough to provide 2.5 million litres of water (enough for 625,000 people for one day) as well as food, toiletries and other essential aid.
Kashif’s story.
Kashif and his family lost his home to the floods. He says that they had 4 rooms and now there is only 1 left. He insists that they are to return to their home and will live in that room for it is still home to him. He hopes with help that he will rebuild the lost rooms. He blames no one for the flood. This spirit is there in a lot of the people affected by the floods. The optimism to return to their ruined homes and to build afresh with new hope is great.
Tehmina’s story.
Tehmina her five children and husband lived in Rajanpur where they tended their sole source of livelihood, a buffalo. The buffalo provided their five children and themselves with milk and a living the rest they sold in the local area. The floods arrived with very little warning. They awoke at 3am when loudspeakers announced that they had to vacate the village within an hour. It was already too late. People rushed and in the confusion the buffalo drowned, their only source of livelihood was gone. Now they have nothing and are dependent on aid for their daily meals and they sleep under the open sky on a raised part of a road that was not washed away.
Kamal’s story.
Kamal was in the city when the flood came to his village of Kot Addu. He had no time to find out what happened. He took leave from his employers and returned home to find his house under 10 feet of water. His neighbours who were two youth’s studying in a local college were dead. They were sleeping and caught unawares by the flood and their remains were found on a tree nearby.
It was vey distressing for Kamal and his family.
Please give what you can, either by sending a cheque or by donating online or become a longer term partner and give a regular amount each month.
Yours Sincerely
Brian Main CEO Feed The Children (UK)
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