In August 2022 record monsoon rains and flash flooding across Pakistan killed at least 1,100 people with millions more displaced from their homes. At its worst, one-third of the country was underwater. Roads, crops, homes and bridges were all washed away, in a situation described by Pakistan’s climate change minister Sherry Rehman as ‘a climate-induced humanitarian disaster of epic proportions.’
Thirty million people were affected by the floods, with millions of people left homeless.
The local organisation we work alongside in Pakistan told us that there were estimates of 1 million houses completely washed away, over 200 bridges and roads collapsing, and around 800,000 livestock perished.
In Sindh province alone, the worst-affected area, the floods killed more than 300 people, with people seeking out whatever dry patches of ground remained along the area’s narrow streets to pitch temporary shelter. People in the area had hardly started recovering from the shock of losing two seasons' worth of crops to the 2020 monsoons when their crops were again last year destroyed.
Please keep the people of Pakistan in your prayers
