Tag: Survivors

Pakistan Hindu Seva Welfare Trust, a nongovernmental organisation carrying out relief work, arranged a medical camp in a flood-hit, remote area of Thatta district. Two...

Three people including a foreign pilot were killed after their small plane crashed in a mountainous area of the remote Indonesian province of Papua...

While the rains have stopped, the misery continues to mount for the people of Sindh Most of the south of the province...

To provide relief to the flood-affected people, the Sindh government, NADRA and the Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) have joined hands to start a...

Sindh Chief Secretary Raja Muhammad Abbas on Wednesday directed the provincial Rehabilitation Department to speed up implementation on phase-II of relief activities for the...

The Sindh government, through its Rehabilitation Department, has so far issued 630,000 Watan Cards during the first phase of relief services for the flood...

My relatives are still buried under the rubble. I know they are alive because they used their mobile phones to contact me,” said one...

To commemorate the first anniversary of the devastating of 2010 floods, ActionAid Pakistan, in collaboration with its local partners and the flood affected communities...

Cancer survivors might want to try yoga to get a better night's sleep and to boost their energy levels, according to a US study....

The Pakistan Army has handed over two complexes of 78 houses of over Rs 10 million to the flood affectees in the districts of...

Over 57,000 survivors of the flood in Sindh would probably not receive immediate cash relief as they have failed to collect their Watan cards...

The Hong Kong-based airline Cathay Pacific Airways has donated Rs 2 million to the Karachi Relief Trust and the Al Umeed Rural School Project...

KARACHI - Speakers at a seminar on the rehabilitation of flood affected people - with the focus on 'choices imposed and choices made' - have demanded that the lands of Karachi, allotted to the people of other provinces, should be given to the flood survivors of Sindh.
"The flood-affected people living in relief camps are being forced to leave the city," they added. The seminar was organised at the Jashn-e-Faiz event by the Pakistan Institute of Labour Education and Research

KARACHI - Despite the passage of over eight months, thousands of survivors of the unprecedented monsoon floods last year in Thatta district have not unable to start their routine life again.
Though the majority of these flood survivors, who were displaced from their native residences during the floods, have returned to their homes, they are still emotionally and economically troubled. Most of them are afraid of more floods in the next monsoon starting in August. Many

KARACHI - Flood survivors of at least seven flood-ravaged districts of Sindh are likely to be compensated by the federal government for their losses suffered during last year's devastating floods, but only after a thorough survey of actual losses has been completed.
Well-placed sources told Pakistan Today that the decision to this effect was taken at a high-level meeting held in the federal capital recently, so that the flood-affected families could be provided with some

ISLAMABAD - Around 70 percent of people affected by floods in Pakistan have said that their top priority was employment and not the financial assistance, said a survey conducted by international agency Oxfam.
According to the survey report, made public on Wednesday in a press conference, around 2,040 people, between 15 and 24 January 2011 were interviewed in Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Balochistan and Sindh provinces, which provide a compelling insight into the needs and desires

KARACHI - The provincial government has officially ended all flood-relief activities in the province, saying that the efforts will be now concentrated on the rehabilitation of flood survivors.
This was confirmed by Sindh Rehabilitation Minister Haji Muzzaffar Shujra, who while talking to Pakistan Today on Saturday, said that shifting its efforts from relief towards rehabilitation, the Sindh government will soon hand over 2,000 houses to flood-affected families in the first