How DEC charities are helping people in Pakistan
In September 2022, the DEC launched an appeal to provide urgent aid to people affected by devastating floods in Pakistan, where vast areas of land were submerged, leaving 6 million people in desperate need of help. The appeal has raised over £38 million so far, including £5 million of Aid Match funding from the UK Government.
DEC charities have been providing lifesaving aid in the immediate aftermath of the disaster and are continuing to support people whose lives and livelihoods have been devastated by the floods.
In September 2022, the DEC launched an appeal to provide urgent aid to people affected by devastating floods in Pakistan, where vast areas of land were submerged, leaving 6 million people in desperate need of help. The appeal has raised over £38 million so far, including £5 million of Aid Match funding from the UK Government.
DEC charities have been providing lifesaving aid in the immediate aftermath of the disaster and are continuing to support people whose lives and livelihoods have been devastated by the floods.
Flood affected villagers receive food aid from DEC charity Islamic Relief in Sindh, Pakistan.
From mid-June until the end of August 2022, Pakistan experienced recordbreaking monsoon rainfall, leading to widespread and extensive flooding and landslides. The country received more than three times its usual rainfall in August, with the two most badly-affected provinces, Sindh and Balochistan, experiencing seven to eight times their usual monthly totals.
Several months on, despite the efforts of the Pakistan government and NGO responders, the situation remains desperate for millions of people. Significant numbers of families remain displaced, most of them living with host communities, but many still in temporary shelters.
Those returning to their villages find their homes damaged and their belongings destroyed, facing winter with no resources and no means of earning an income.
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DEC response in the first 3 months
- Water, sanitation and hygiene
- 35%
- Shelter
- 25%
- Multi-purpose cash (MPC)
- 13%
- Protection
- 9%
- Health
- 7%
- Education
- 4%
- Livelihoods
- 4%
- Food
- 3%
In the first three months of the response
6,500
households were provided with shelter kits containing tents or tarpaulins.
14,000
households were provided with hygiene kits.
63,700
people benefited from healthcare services such as maternal health and nutrition.
2,900
households were provided with emergency food supplies, for example rice and lentils.
Providing shelter kits for people made homeless
Jaitha’s house was destroyed by the pelting rain, high winds, and rising floodwaters. It was the same for everyone else in his village. Thanks to DEC charity Save The Children, Jaitha and his family were able to find shelter after their house collapsed in the heavy rain.
“I would like to thank those NGOs who have given us these tents which have kept us completely safe from the rain that fell just two or three days ago,” he says.
Food supplies for families
Shahjahan, received a token that verified him in his hand to receive a food ration organised by Islamic Relief. Each pack has 20kg of flour and 5kg of cooking oil, along with lentils, rice and sugar.
He said: "We have benefited a lot because of the food distribution, because all the work we used to do before has been ruined due to floods. We are very grateful to those who have helped us and given us food supplies"
Mobile healthcare in hard-to-reach areas
Alam Sher Khan is a medical worker providing free healthcare to hard-to-reach communities through a mobile health clinic supported by Concern Worldwide.
A team of medical professionals go out in their van, targeting areas where people cannot get access medical care and provide on-the-spot help.
He said: "We try to help people by going where medicines are not reaching. We have our mobile van to reach them and provide medicines and drinking water"
Access to clean water, sanitation and hygiene
80 year old, Ayesha, a flood affected resident of a the village in the heavily affected area of Balochistan, receives a hygiene kit from Age International.
29 villagers received hygiene or dignity kits that included underwear, soap, detergent, sanitary napkins, toothpaste, toothbrush, a comb, flashlight and a whistle, as well as two buckets.
