PAKISTAN / FLOODS

One year after the most devastating floods in recent history, the lives of Pakistani families are again being disrupted by heavy monsoon rains. According to UNICEF nearly five and a half million people have been affected. UNICEF

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:37
• Production Date: 21 September 2011
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS CHILDREN'S FUND - UNICEF
• Subject Topical: REFUGEES; DISPLACED PERSONS; HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE
• Geographic Subject: PAKISTAN
• MAMS Id: U110921f

Description

STORY: PAKISTAN/ FLOODS DISPLACED
TRT: 1.37
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: URDU / NATS

DATELINE: 10 SEPTEMBER 2011, SINDH PROVINCE, PAKISTAN

Shotlist

1. Various shots, flood waters, people hauling belongings
2. Various shots, flood damage
3. Various shots, displaced people living in shelters beside river
4. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Hajra, Displaced person:
“We have lost everything. We need urgent help as we are poor people. We are sitting in a safe area, but no one has come to help us. At least not till now. We need food and other supplies as we have lost everything we had. We just took our children and have come here to save our lives.”
5. Various shots, temporary camp in boys high school
6. Various shots, interior of school
7. Various shots, temporary shelters
8. Various shots, displaced people receive fresh water.

Storyline

One year after the most devastating floods in recent history, the lives of Pakistani families are again being disrupted by heavy monsoon rains.

Nearly five and a half million people have been affected.

The southern province of Sindh is one of the worst hit –with damage to lives, property and livestock.

Hundreds of thousands of displaced people are living in makeshift shelters on the banks of rivers.

They have brought with them what few belongings they could salvage.

SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Hajra, Displaced person:
“We have lost everything. We need urgent help as we are poor people. We are sitting in a safe area, but no one has come to help us. At least not till now. We need food and other supplies as we have lost everything we had. We just took our children and have come here to save our lives.”

Some families are living in camps like this one – a former boys high school which is home to nearly 700 people.

Conditions are not ideal, there is little clean water or food and sanitation facilities are not adequate.

As well as not having enough to eat or drink and no way of earning money, these families must also deal with the deadly threat of disease. The flood waters are breeding grounds for sickness.

UNCEF is rushing emergency supplies like fresh water to the hardest hit and over the next few weeks will be providing education kits, hygiene supplies, food and medicine to the hundreds of thousands in need.