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Emergency blog Brian Hatchell is CBM'S Emergency Communications Coordinator. He was recently in Pakistan, visiting the regions affected by flooding.Tuesday, 6 September 2010 Headed home today. Hard to believe my time in Pakistan is over. As I sit here in the airport waiting to board a plane for my journey back home, all I can think about are the people who lost theirs. I've met so many people on this trip, young, old, male, female, rich, poor and they all have one thing in common - they lost everything to the floods... Read more. Monday, 6 September 2010 Went further into southern Punjab Province today to see and hear stories about flood survivors. On the way we drove along a road that had been washed out by the floods. Water was still flowing over it about 4 inches deep. All around all you could see was water and I was told this used to be some of the best crop lands in all of Pakistan. You would never have guessed it. It looked like the water had always been there... Read more. Sunday, 5 September 2010 Spent the day in southern Punjab Province, one of the hardest hit areas in Pakistan. We visited an tent camp for displaced people just outside Multan. As we were driving from Multan into the rural farming communities you could see the devastation all around you. Although the flooding occured two weeks ago, and the water has receded quite a bit, most the prime crop land in this part of the country remains submerged... Read more. Friday, 3 September 2010 Yesterday was a busy day. In the morning we loaded up a truck with food packages for 371 people living in a village northeast of Peshawar. Apparently the village was a very poor community devastated by the floods. The food packages - provided by CHEF, one of our local partners - consisted of flour, rice, pulses, oil, sugar, tea, soap and a few other items. It will feed a family of seven for seven-to-ten days. It never ceases to amaze me how little food a family can live on in desparate times... Read more. Thursday, 2 September 2010 Spent the day today in Thatta, a village 120 kms west of Karachi in Sindh Province, southern Pakistan, the latest area to be hit hard by flood waters. As we were driving from Karachi to Thatta you could thousands of people fleeing... Read more. Wednesday, 1 September 2010 Since returning to northern Pakistan from my trip to the south I have unfortunately been chained to my desk unable to attend any relief operations because of security concerns. Security is a major issue in northern Pakistan. As if people in this part of the country devastated by floods needed something else to worry about... Read more. |
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