We have reached over 2.4 million people with humanitarian aid
Pakistan has been hit by severe flooding for the second year. While many people have not fully recovered from last year’s mega-floods – the worst natural disaster ever in Pakistan – Oxfam is still helping people affected and has launched a fresh response. Over the duration of our response, we aim to reach more than 3.9 million people by providing them with clean water, sanitation, hygiene and livelihood programs.
Latest: floods hit for a second year (Sept '11)
The situation
The flooding devastated villages across all provinces in Pakistan and caused massive damage to infrastructure with roads submerged, bridges swept away, and many schools and hospitals damaged.
Over nine million people have been affected by the last floods that hit in August 2011. More than three-quarters of the affected households have not received any shelter assistance while around 800,000 people are still displaced. According to the latest estimates three million people are in urgent need of emergency food assistance. These unmet needs must be addressed as a matter of urgency, as winter approaches and risks of diseases and malnutrition rise.
Read the report: Ready or Not: Pakistan’s resilience to disasters one year on from the floods
Oxfam's response
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Working with local partners, Oxfam has already reached more than 1,360,000 people in the 2011 floods and provided them with clean water supplies, sanitation facilities, hygiene kits, tools and/or animal fodder in order to help them to rebuild their livelighood. Oxfam has also assisted in the search and rescue of more than 58,000 people. We are working in the eight worst affected districts of Sindh.
Over the past year we have reached over 2.4 million people with humanitarian aid in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Punjab, Sindh and Azad Jammu Kashmir.
Our response has included the provision of safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene facilities, as well as tents and cash grants. We also ran cash-for-work programs, so that people in need of help were paid to carry out vital rebuilding and rehabilitation work.
Read more: What Oxfam is doing in Pakistan
Thanks to overwhelming public generosity and institutional funding, Oxfam was able to raise $75 million to support our initial Pakistan emergency program.
We urgently need to see the same donor generosity and giving that took place last year during the floods.
Read our one-year report: Pakistan Floods Progress Report: July 2010 / July 2011
Donate
Oxfam is still responding to the humanitarian needs due to the Pakistan floods. With your assistance we can continue to help people. Please donate now – these Oxfam affiliates are running direct appeals for the recent Pakistan floods:
Alternatively, you can also make a donation to the general emergency fund of your nearest national Oxfam affiliate. Your money will be used to fund our emergency work worldwide, which includes responding in countries such as Pakistan.
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Updated November 2011.
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