PAKISTAN / FLOODS DISPLACED

According to local authorities, recent floods have destroyed or damaged about a quarter of a million homes across northern Pakistan. The UN Refugee Agency distributes more than 12,000 tents to meet the urgent needs of people displaced by the disaster. UNHCR

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:08
• Production Date: 6 August 2010
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES - UNHCR
• Subject Topical: REFUGEES; DISPLACED PERSONS; DISASTER PREVENTION; DISASTER PREPAREDNESS; DISASTER RELIEF; HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE
• Geographic Subject: PAKISTAN
• MAMS Id: U100806d

Description

STORY: PAKISTAN / FLOODS DISPLACED
SOURCE: UNHCR
TRT: 1.08
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: PASHTO / NATS

DATELINE: 6 AUGUST 2010, UTMANZAI VILLAGE, CHARSADDA, PAKISTAN

Shotlist

1. Various shots, camp tents
2. Med shot, child sleeping on the ground
3. Various shots, people in makeshift shelter
4. Various shots, donor food distribution
5. Med shot, Akbar Ali in his UNHCR tent
6. SOUNDBITE (Pashto) Akbar Ali, Flood Victim:
“I was kept awake all night and when the water started to enter the house I gathered my family and ran.”
7. Various shots, Ali in his house in the mud
8. Med shot, dry well
9. Med shot, man on motorbike in makeshift camp
10. Various shots, destroyed houses

Storyline

Many Pakistanis, displaced by the recent flooding, are pitching up sheets of plastic and cloth, sometimes tents wherever they can find a little piece of dry land.

Recent rains have brought the worse floods Pakistan has seen in decades driving millions from their homes.

Many fled with nothing and humanitarian assistance is sporadic because so many roads and key bridges remain cut off.

Akbar Ali was driven from his home in the middle of the night.

SOUNDBITE (Pashto) Akbar Ali, Flood Victim:
“I was kept awake all night and when the water started to enter the house I gathered my family and ran.”

He went to his home to assess the damage. Most of his carpentry tools were washed away along with his household wares. What little he has left is now covered in mud.

Across northern Pakistan's more than 12,000 UNHCR tents have been distributed, but much more is needed to replace the thousands of homes, livestock and personal possessions that disappeared with the flood waters.