3 month since flooding in Pakistan—
Large tracts of Pakistan are still submerged and hundreds of thousands of people are living onbunds, or embankments, without any regular access to food supplies. Food must be flown in, or sent by boat or hovercraft.
This is the situation right now in many parts of the southern province Sindh, where large areas of land – particularly in Dadu and Jamshoro districts – may remain under water for up to three months more. About a million people here are living in camps.
In October WFP delivered life-saving rations to 6.2 million people spread over a huge area. This month they are aiming to reach 7.5 million people.
Some of these will be the people living on the ‘bunds’ in Sindh and other areas still underwater. But we’ll also be scaling up assistance to the many Pakistanis who are now looking to start rebuilding and recovering the lives that were shattered by the floods.
Meanwhile, winter is approaching. Positioning food supplies in northern areas of the country before the snows come and cut off access is a priority. Some 133,000 people have already received winter rations and more will be getting them this month in the KPK region.
111 days after the floods, the huge scale of the disaster is now clear – and so too is the scale of the response needed.
