When the tidal wave hit Rahimyar Khan in the southern part of the Punjab province, Pakistan, it ripped everything away – communities, homes, and livelihoods. The people in the region have retreated to dams which are kilometres long and wait for help there. There’s water to the left, there’s water to the right. The villages [...]
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September 2, 2010
Elderly left vulnerable in Pakistan flooding.
“We have just enough food to last for a few more weeks but after that I don’t know how we will cope” said Dhani Buksh a flood survivor from the southern province of Sindh in Pakistan. “We have lost everything. Our home is gone. I am seventy and my wife is seventy one. She is [...]
August 23, 2010
Pakistan: Women cope with aftermath
Donate to our Pakistan Appeal Donate to the DEC >> “We didn’t know the flood was coming. It was night-time and we were asleep in our rooms,” says 43-year-old Rukhtaj, a mother of six. “Some people came and woke us up. They warned us that the water is rising. So we grabbed our children as [...]
August 18, 2010
Haiti: Patience wearing thin
Donate to CAFOD’s ongoing emergency work It was with mixed emotions that I stepped off the plane in Toussaint L’Ouverture international airport in Haiti. I was hoping to notice visible improvements in living conditions. But I’d heard that the number of camps had increased since March from 750 to over 1,200. To me this indicated that things were not [...]
August 12, 2010
Pakistan: Vital aid delivered
Donate to our Pakistan Appeal Donate to the DEC >> I travelled to Nowshera in central Pakistan for an aid distribution. When we went to do a survey a week before there were blocked roads and difficulties getting through. This time we didn’t have problems and traffic was flowing quite freely, but on our way there we [...]
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