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| Pakistan flood victims to face winter in camps: UN | |
| 2010-10-30 | |
[Arab News] More than 100,000 flood victims in Pakistain are likely to spend winter in camps because many villages in the country's south remain under stagnant water, the United Nations, aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society refugee agency said on Friday.
The southern Pakistain provinces of Sindh and Balochistan, still reeling from the record floods which began in late July, will take months to recover, according to the front man for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). "Local authorities are looking into how stagnant water can be pumped from villages, but this will be a massive undertaking and is likely to take time," Adrian Edwards told a news briefing. In Sindh, more than 1 million people were in some 3,200 camps or makeshift sites at the time of a UNHCR survey two weeks ago, but the numbers have fallen since, according to the agency. A further 60,000 displaced were in camps in Balochistan. The floods, which rolled from north to south in an unprecedented tide of destruction, destroyed or damaged more than 1.7 million homes, official figures show. Some 7 million people have shelter needs, including many who have returned to homes lacking a roof or electricity, said the International Organization for Migration (IOM), an aid agency playing a central role in the flood response. "The immense scale of the disaster continues to pose a huge challenge to the government and aid agencies. We are still a long way from providing shelter to every flood victim," said IOM regional representative Abdel Moneim Mostafa. A United Nations appeal for $1.9 billion for Pakistain is only 39 percent funded, spokeswoman Elisabeth Byrs said. "We still have a long way to go. The food security, health and camp management sectors are really under-funded," she said. | |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 Besides, if they actually fixed the problem - well there goes a revenue-stream. Someone's go to backfill for the Taliban funding. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2010-10-30 16:45 |
| #4 The comment about having MANY idle men to dig dranage canals? No way in hell, that's work, a four letter word around there, if slaves or women(I know, same thing)Can't do it, then the Able bodied men REFUSE, and that, in a nutshell, is the whole description of why they're a failed People. If I have something I need done, I DO IT, or hire it done, they sit and bitch that it's not done for them. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2010-10-30 16:38 |
| #3 "More than 100,000 flood victims in Pakistain are likely to spend winter in camps" Whatchoo bitchin' about? I'm sure it's just Allen's will. Everything is, isn't it? |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2010-10-30 14:58 |
| #2 Anyone want to bet that these "camps" will still be operational in 50 years? |
| Posted by: Alan Cramer 2010-10-30 12:55 |
| #1 100,000 flood victims in Pakistain are likely to spend winter in camps An opportunity: "Palestinian Nation" was started with less. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2010-10-30 04:16 |