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Asia - Pakistan floods 2022

Families in temporary shelters away from flood waters in Sindh province, Pakistan.

Our Pakistan Floods Appeal is now closed.

However, we continue to support millions of displaced people affected by the monsoon rains and flash flooding across Pakistan.

What happened in Pakistan?

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

Community World Service Asia (CWSA) is fortunate to have an experienced team on the ground. Many belong to the flood-affected areas and have strong links with local communities and government departments. Our response is focusing on cash for food and access to basic healthcare through mobile health units in the province of Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Shama Mall, Deputy Regional Director at Community World Service Asia (CWSA)

How did CAFOD respond?

Thanks to donations from our generous supporters, CAFOD provided £100,000 of funding to the initial crisis response, enabling our local partner, Community World Service Asia (CWSA), to respond immediately. They met with communities to assess the humanitarian needs and, through our mobile health units, we were able to go directly to remote areas providing health services to inaccessible areas.

We're proud that a CAFOD-funded mobile health unit has since been transformed to tell stories of some of the survivors of the floods and highlighted by the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC). Inspired by meeting families whose lives were devastated by the floods, artist Ali Salman Anchan painted one of the mobile health units funded by CAFOD and deployed by our partner CWSA, using local truck art style to tell stories of hope and resilience. Now the truck not only provides aid to flood-affected communities as they recover and rebuild their lives but also celebrates the survivors and brings the work of the health specialists closer to the hearts of communities.

Pray for the people of Pakistan

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