Pakistan floods 2010
Situation update
Some of The Humanitarian Forum's members are on the field in Pakistan, offering much-needed relief .
Due to the severity of the floods, UN OCHA has revised its initial emergency response plan, increasing the $412 million budget to $1.6 billion.
The ICRC is working with Pakistan Red Crescent to clean the flooded wells, distribute shelter kits and offer a strong medicines supply. Find their whole response here.
Oxfam is delivering water, installing water tanks, repairing wells and water pipes, and constructing emergency latrines to help prevent the spread of water-borne diseases. Focusing on hygiene, their work also involves providing kits and water purification sachets to help people who have lost everything in the floods, carrying out community clean-up campaigns, and running cash-for-work programmes. In addition, they provided families with vouchers equivalent to 5,000 Rp (approx £38), that can be used at selected shops in exchange for food or household items. Each voucher is expected to meet the basic needs of one family for 6-7 weeks. Read what they achieved so far here.
In the southern Pakistani province of Sindh, Mercy Corps is addressing urgent medical needs with two mobile health units that can treat up to 300 people per day. One of the units is exclusively focused on meeting the needs of women and children. They have also supplied drinking water to 145,000 people affected by the flood. Their plan can be accessed here.
As well as the daily distributions, Islamic Relief provided vehicles and boats to local authorities to help rescue stranded survivors and helped clear and repair damaged roads, allowing access to villages that had been cut off.
The Imam Khomeini Relief Foundation has set up three relief camps in Sindh, Punjab and Balochistan Province and has so far dispatched 140 tons of humanitarian aid.
Access a full list of the financial pledges from ReliefWeb here, and download UN OCHA's assessment of Flood fffected population 2011-2012 here.
