The continual heavy monsoon rains, which started at the end of July, have claimed 1,600 lives. Villages have been washed away and the agricultural land and crops that families made their living from are under water. Fourteen million people, including six million children, are affected. Many desperately need shelter, food, clean water, sanitation and medical care.
Oxfam, which has worked in Pakistan since 1973, is responding in four provinces, providing clean water and sanitation vital to prevent the explosion of water-borne diseases. Getting clean drinking water to young children is a priority to prevent diarrhoea, which can be deadly.
Oxfam's Country Director in Pakistan, Neva Khan, says, 'The rains are continuing and with each hour that passes the flooding is multiplying misery across the entire country. This is a mega disaster and it needs a mega response.'
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