With one-fifth of the country covered by floodwaters, it is estimated 20 million people in Pakistan have been affected by the worst flooding in that country in memory. The flooding, which began in July with heavy monsoon rains, has left 4 million people homeless, and destroyed homes, farmland and infrastructure. Monsoon rains could continue for the next four weeks, worsening an already catastrophic disaster. Food, clean drinking water, shelter and medical supplies are needed.
World Concern is working with partner agencies to assist flood victims with disaster relief. These agencies are already on the ground providing food, safe drinking water, tents, hygiene kits, mosquito nets, stoves and blankets to families who have lost everything.
Assistance is expanding to the southern part of Pakistan, as the flood waters are now threatening that area, which has received little help so far.
The disaster is the worst UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has ever seen, he told CBC News. Many people are becoming sick with diarrhea, and cholera and malaria are growing concerns.
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Immediately following the massive earthquake that hit Haiti in January 2010 and left the capital city of Port-au-Prince in shambles, people faced an immediate critical need. You stood with us to meet that need. With your help, more than 100,000 people received emergency supplies, including food, water and tarps for shelter. We reunited panicked children with their parents, if their parents survived.
Now, we've moved into the rebuilding phase and are repairing, rebuilding or completely replacing dozens of houses each week to make sure families have permanent shelter. We're also providing cash for work opportunities and small business grants to help people restart their business, and improve the local economy. We know the people of Haiti need much more than handouts of food at this point -- they need ways to regain their independence and support their families long-term.
We’ve worked in Haiti for 31 years, serving the poorest, and our staff of 100+ is ready to walk with the victims as long as it takes—supplying their immediate needs, then equipping them with tools to earn income again and live better lives. Please continue to stand with us in this response to a massive disaster, which will undoubtedly take many years to recover from.
World Concern and the International Red Cross have been helping many civilians who were wounded in a Sri Lanka war zone. In addition to the war, Sri Lanka suffered greatly in the 2004 tsunami.
World Concern is one of only a few agencies permitted to help.
Working in hospitals just outside the conflict area, World Concern disaster response experts provided the wounded with meals, dining supplies, bedding, toiletries and clothing.
Currently we are helping stabilize and strengthen communities with food security grants, shelter improvements, creating sources of clean water, and training farmers in agriculture and livestock care. Gradually, the people of Sri Lanka are beginning to see out from under the dark could of war and despair toward hope for a better future.
Learn more about how we're helping.
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When armed militia drove tens of thousands of people from their homes in Darfur, Sudan and Easter Chad, burning villages and killing family members along the way, those who survived had nowhere to go. World Concern is helping create a safe place to live in camps for displaced people. After critical needs for clean water, shelter and food are met, we've begun the long process of helping farmers acquire land to cultivate crops and providing employment for others through our Cash for Work program, which enables them to earn enough to feed their families each day.
Read more about our work in Chad in our blog.
World Concern continues its wide-reaching disaster response effort in Myanmar. In May of 2008, an intense cyclone killed about 140,000 people in the country, many from fishing villages in the delta region of the country.
Since the cyclone, World Concern has responded in many ways, rebuilding homes, livelihoods and providing supplies of clean water.
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