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Families In Pakistan Need Your Help
August 26th, 2010
The flooding in Pakistan has affected millions and has the already struggling country in desperate need of help.
Here is an example of a father’s story of the horrific flooding that had occurred.
“The water came at night. We left everything and ran to save our lives,” Shabbir Ahmed, a father of nine, told the World Food Program. “It’s more than two weeks now, we have nothing to eat, no shelter. Our kids are asking when we will go home, and we don’t have an answer.”
Ahmed’s family is one of many affected by the flooding: latest estimates put the number of homeless at 20 million. Many of those are children and the United Nations has said that 3.5 million children may die if they are not treated for diseases that they are battling, including diarrhea and skin diseases. There is also a lack of clean drinking water and proper sanitation. Monsoon season is not at its conclusion yet either and the situation is expected to get worse. Moreover, it is the agricultural parts of Pakistan which have taken the biggest hit. 3.2 million hectares of crops or livestock has been damaged or lost in the provinces of Khyber-Pakhtoonkhwa and Punjab alone.
$800 million has been donated to Pakistan and the floods so far. Although few expect the donations to mount to the $3 billion that will be given to Haiti in the next few years, more donations are needed to curb the results of the floods.
It’s definitely not too late to help though!
If you’d like to contribute to the efforts, go to UNICEF Canada’s Website to pledge.
Or, you could also help via a simple text message! Canadian wireless subscribers can text “REDCROSS” to 30333 to donate $10 to the Canadian Red Cross. Read about the Red Cross relief efforts here.
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