Plan's Work in Pakistan
Since the floods in Pakistan 6 months ago, Plan has worked hard helping and supporting the millions of people affected:
(Updated 02-02-2011)
- Plan has assisted 292,711 people in 313 camps, and installed 268 tents benefiting 12,215 people.
- 256,615 individuals have been provided with two meals per day from communal cooking pots.
- 17,999 households have been provided with food packages.
- At least 840 households and 14,930 people have had hand-pumps installed or been supplied with water tanks.
- 10,644 families have been given health and hygiene kits.
And we couldn't have done it without the support from people all over the world, so Thank You!
But we still need support to help the millions of people affected.
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Reports from the field
02/02/11 - Pakistan - 6 months on and still under water
Since the floods, Plan has been working hard in Pakistan to help and support the millions of families who suffer from the disaster by bringing them food supplies, clean water and shelters. But Plan also have an eye for the children - the future of pakistan - and they have been looked after in the many child-friendly spaces.
27/9/10 - Pakistan flood victims face malaria outbreak
Plan staff are preparing to distribute 18,500 mosquito nets to help protect families from the disease.
“Severe flooding persists in parts of Sindh and rescue operations are continuing,” says Plan’s country director in Pakistan Haider Yaqub. Read more >>
10 - One girl's story from a camp in Pakistan
Ten-year-old Zaafira (not her real name) and her family are among thousands of people forced from their homes by the floods and are now sheltering in a Plan-supported camp in Thatta, Pakistan.
“I don’t want to be here, in this place,” says 10-year-old Zaafira*, standing in the dusty and crowded camp. “I want to
go home, and to go back to school. It’s boring and dirty here.” Read more >>
31/08/10 In Pakistan, No ID can mean no food
In times of an emergency, like the one being played out in Pakistan right now, proof of identity can be very important – even the difference between eating and not.
Plan staff witnessed women and children being pushed out the way by the Army during food distributions in camps. Those who possessed ID and could register at the camp, received aid, those who didn’t -went hungry – a rope dividing the two groups. Read more >>
31/08/10 Teenage Mum and her baby escape the floodsTEENAGE mother Aqeela and her baby daughter are among the tens of thousands of people seeking relief from the floods in Pakistan’s sprawling makeshift camps. Fourteen year old Aqeela and her baby Farah were forced to flee their home in the district of Muzaffargarh in southern Punjab.
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27/08/10 Ambassador drops in to say "Thanks"
Pakistan's Ambassador to Ireland, Naghmana A. Hashmi, called in to the Plan Ireland office this morning to discuss the situation in her country and to thank Plan and its supporters for their efforts. Read more >>
26/08/10 - Irish Aid funding for Plan's Pakistan work
The Minister of State for Overseas Development, Mr. Peter Power T.D., today announced the allocation of €150,000 to Plan Ireland for its emergency response programme in flood stricken Pakistan. Read more >>
25/8/10 - Over 1,500 deaths confirmed
According to government sources over 1,500 people have been confirmed dead and another 2,500 injured. Altogether though, some 20 million people have been affected with a million houses destroyed.
18/8/10 - Floodwaters continue to rise in both Sindh and Balochistan provinces.
The sheer extent of the flooding means that many people have not yet been reached..
Solveig Routier, a Plan child protection emergency specialist, says that children at the camps are experiencing nightmares and flashbacks and are showing signs of distress.
It is estimated that up to 6 million people will need food assistance over the next 3 months.
The leading health problems are skin diseases, acute watery diarrhea and respiratory tract infections.
Agriculture is the economic mainstay of the population and the loss of seeds has left them extremely vulnerable.
17/8/10 - “We need more help” says Prime Minister
Prime Minister of Pakistan, Yousuf Raza Gilani, told Plan's Director in Pakistan that his country needs “more help from our international friends”.
During a flight over the devastated Baluchistan Province, Mr. Gilani called on the international community to unite to meet the challenges of the floods which have killed some 1,600 people, made 2 million homeless and affected some 14 million others, many of them children.
HALF the camps set up to deal with the floods in Pakistan have been abandoned as water levels continue to rise.
Fears that reservoirs and canals are close to overflowing in Sindh and Southern Punjab have created an exodus of some 500,000 people.
Plan distributed aid to thousands of families in the Muzaffargarh area but have now joined the exodus north and relocated to Multan.
“Most people are now on the road,” said acting Country Director of Plan in Pakistan, Rashid Javed, “…
Plan is providing direct aid, food and shelter assistance to 100,000 people in some of the districts worst hit by flooding in Pakistan - Layyah, Rajanpur, and Muzafargarh.
Plan has stockpiled aid supplies such as hygiene kits, food and plastic sheeting for thousands of people in the Thatta, Ghotki and Khairpur areas. We are hoping to prepare people & minimise the impact there as more heavy rain is forecast nationwide.
Concerns are growing over conditions in the camps in and around the Layyah district of Pakistan which is one of the worst hit by the floods.
An estimated 100,000 people are in the camps and 100,000 more are scattered along the river bank.
3/8/10 - Cholera fears in wake of Pakistan Floods
Plan aid workers in Pakistan fears that there could be an outbreak of cholera following the devastating flooding.
Plan has begun relief work in the Southern Punjab areas of Rajanpur, Muzafargarh and Layyah - providing bottled water and cooked meals to 3,000 affected families.
Plan is also preparing to distribute health and hygiene kits to more than 9,000 families. Your help is urgently needed.
