Since the floods of 2010, I had a notion that the lives of people might get better once the rehabilitation and reconstruction period of emergency response would be over. I was mistaken and people who...
Floods 2011 have unleashed heavy loss of life and property. Houses are smashed away by angry water waves, livestock is either dead or sold, crops are destroyed and the land is submerged in the deep...
Floods 2011 have unleashed heavy loss of life and property. Houses are smashed away by angry water waves, livestock is either dead or sold, crops are destroyed and the land is submerged in the deep...
It was only by chance that I became a humanitarian worker. When I was young my father was diagnosed with cancer and we were told we had to raise huge sums of money to pay for his treatment....
I joined ActionAid Pakistan in November 2010 when the devastating flood had just hit the country and its impact was still unrolling. ActionAid had initiated a timely and well-coordinated emergency...
ActionAid Pakistan has planned a series of events and activities to mark the one year anniversary of the 2010 floods that caused massive devastation in our country. The commemoration of "floods - one...
Sassi hails from a poor family. Her husband is a labourer. They had a small house of their own before it was destroyed by unrelenting monsoon rainfall, so she had to give birth in a cave during the...
Umerkot is one of the worst flood affected districts of Sindh, Pakistan. It is contrary to environmental characteristics of the area that it floods with rainwater. People have constructed their...
With two disabled sons, life was difficult enough for Zainab before the floods left her family homeless. Now she has lost her livestock and her village is completely under water.
In Pakistan, there is no law for registering Hindu marriages. As a result, Hindu married women are unable to get their National identity cards that show their ‘married’ status or bear their husband...
It was beginning of 2008 when upon refusal to pay the undue tax amount; the local Tapedar roped a poor farmer Ghulam Abbas Lanjwani and illegally detained and tortured him in his official residence.
