News Articles: August 2010
Pakistan: aid reaches over half a million
9 August 2010 The Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) has revealed that aid from its members has now reached over 500,000 survivors after the worst floods in Pakistan’s history. The DEC Pakistan Floods Appeal has now raised £6 million pounds. The flooding has now reached Sindh province, in southern Pakistan and hundreds of villages have been flooded. Reports say the protective bund at Torhi in the province's nor...
BBC news - Pakistan floods
2 August 2010 Last updated at 16:40 // //]]> '2.5m people affected' by Pakistan floods officials say The US government has been dropping food parcels by air Up...
Pakistan floods - a personal story
'By the time I had got the children, the water was waist high' Red Cross says 2.5 million people affected as death toll rises to 1,500 ...
Pakistan - worst floods in living memory
Rescue workers and troops in north-west Pakistan struggle to reach people affected by the country's worst floods in living memory. Children sit on a bed to eat their food in a flood-hit area of Qasim Bella on the outskirts of Multan To view more pictures go to http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2010/aug/01/pakistan ...
Pakistan - cholera fears grow
Medical teams sent to devastated areas as cholera fears grow Survivors displaced by disaster in which up to 1,200 have died face threat of waterborne disease. Pakistan today sent medical teams to the flood-hit north-west of the country amid fears that cholera could spread after the worst flooding in the country's history displaced up to 2 million people. An estimated 1,200 people have died after extremely heavy monsoon rains triggered raging floodwaters in the Khy...
Pakistan Red Crescent & ICRC assists victims
Geneva (ICRC) – According to official sources, flooding caused by torrential monsoon rains has killed more than 1,100 people in Pakistan and affected up to 2.5 million people across the country in the past week In the worst-affected areas, entire villages were washed away without warning by walls of flood water. Thousands of people have lost everyth...
Pakistan - saving lives with Lifestraws
Now's the time to help save lives by raising money for Lifestraws. You don't know what they are? Then look at SAN's May 2009 News page to find out all about them. If you want your pupils / students to understand how they can make a positive difference to the lives of others, then NOW is the time to give them a chance to learn. Help them to help the people made homeless by floods in Pakistan stay alive and stay healthy. For more details please contact &n...
Pakistan flood - aid pledged so far
Pakistan flood aid pledged, country by country Pakistan will need millions in aid following the floods. Pakistan flood aid: who donated what? Click image for full graphic. Illustration: Jenny Ridley for the Guardian Find out which countries have donated what so far http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2010/aug/09/pakistan-flood-aid...
Huge scale of floods tests relief effort
News Stories, 10 August 2010 © A. Fazzina for UNHCR /Noor Afghan refugees salvage their belongings from the mud UNHCR staff in Pakistan say the situation is among the most difficult they have faced. Thousands of villages and towns in low-lying areas have not seen flooding on this scale in generations. Across the country, Pakistan’s Federal Flood Commission puts the number of homes destroyed or da...
Pakistan - The Elders speak
PAKISTAN FLOODS: The Elders urge the world to respond more quickly and generously “We must hold the people of Pakistan in the heart of the human family at this time.“ Desmond Tutu The Elders have called on governments and individuals to respond more quickly and generously to help the millions of people whose lives and livelihoods have been shattered by the floods. Read their statement http://www.theelders.org/ ...
Archbishop Tutu to retire
2 JULY 2010 MEDIA STATEMENT BY ARCHBISHOP EMERITUS DESMOND TUTU I have been very fortunate to have been given opportunities to contribute in a small way to the development of our new democratic, exhilarating, exasperating nation, and to have travelled the world as a representative, first of our collective apartheid anxiety, and later, of our promise and our hope. I retired as Archbishop of Cape Town in 1996. Then I retired again, after completion of the work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. ...
