The flood will decrease economic growth in Pakistan from 4.5% of GDP to 2% of GDP.
Goods suppliers say that they have lost billions of dollars of supplies in the floods.
Movie star Angenlina Jolie urged people not to use corruption as an excuse to not help the Pakistani flood victims.
5.3 million jobs have been harmed by the flooding.
The British Council Active Citizens Programme with the Formation Awareness Community Empowerment Society launched a relief campaign for flood victims.
As Pakistan recovers from the flood disaster, we need to double the relief efforts. Here is a list of some of the essential items that we identified as critical for the flood relief effort.
One Ummah foundation (OUF) has been distributing many of the items on this list but we need every help we can get to be able to serve those in need. We invite you all to join us in the humanitarian cause and urge everyone to do their best to contribute to help.
Here are the contents of a typical food packet that One Ummah foundation recently distributed to the flood victims. It costs 700 rupees (about US $8) in Pakistan and can sustain a family for a few days. More importantly it can do a world of good to their health and spirit.
The devastating floods in Pakistan caused wide spread damage and inundated vast portions of the country badly affecting the lives of about 18million people – approximately one eight of country’s population. Millions have been displaced, lost their livelihoods, lost their homes, farms and cattle and vulnerable to starvation, hunger and disease. (Pakistan flood losses)
As with any disaster, the poorer sections of the society are affected the most – especially children and women. We have a responsibility to rise to the occasion and help these most vulnerable sections of the population, and humanity in general.
One Ummah Foundation (OUF) is actively involved in providing emergency relief from day one by distributing food packets, establishing and running relief camps, providing medicine and vaccinations to protect people from water borne diseases, providing emergency shelter etc. But there is still an acute shortage of funds for carrying on with the relief work. Please help OUF increase its efforts as Pakistan recovers from this disaster.
We, at One Ummah Foundation, thank you for all the support we received so far either in the form of donations and/or prayers. We need your continued support and every help possible to carry forward with this effort. Please donate generously for this effort.
We promise that every last penny of your donation will reach the needy. Together, we can make a difference.
Mohammad Rahman returns from Karachi. OUF will send out a detailed report soon inshallahtaala. This is an Epic Flood will take a long time to recover. Please keep your prayers and donation coming inshallah.
This is interior Sindh picture. Mr Mazahir our Principal of AlKhair School in the slums of Karachi took these pictures.
This is the latest info from Lower Punjab. We visited the flood effected area of PeerKot near jhang yesterday and distribute the food packets amoung the flood victims.
In the pictures, there is an old woman. she is even too weak to satnd on her feet. Her house has destroyed in flood.
Pakistan is going through a worst test at a time where we have a very weak management processes. The great news is the people of Pakistan still believe in Pakistan. I have yet to meet more stronger and well determined people. The private sector is 100% cooperating. The Pakistani businessmen are coming forward and putting everything we have.
No matter what we read in Media Alhamdullilah Pakistan goes on. Inshallah we will come out of this stronger as Allah subhantaala still believe in us.
Please remember before we all criticize Pakistan when we got our country India was already a establish country and Pakistan was just an experiment.
Please remember us in your doa and keep the donations coming.
The purpose of the trip is to inshallah visit our flood affected victims. One Ummah Foundation is in the process of raising funds with vaccinations and are working with few doctors and retired Army officers volunteers.
The response we got has been overwhelming. We have decided to focus all our efforts in Pakistan only. This is the biggest test Pakistan is going through. We are suspending all our activities in other countries for the time being. Stay tuned for updates.
The enormity of this tragedy is hard to imagine. To add to the existing geographical and political difficulties of mounting a relief effort, there is seemingly less international support for Pakistan compared to other recent disasters such as earthquakes in Haiti and tsunamis in Indonesia. It is now more important than ever to suport One Ummah’s relief effort with a contribution today.
In the case of the devastating monsoon floods that have ravaged about one-fifth of Pakistan, killed at least 1,600 people and displaced over 20 million more, aid agencies and umbrella organizations like the United Nations are reporting reluctance, especially among the traditionally dependable donors in the West, to dig deep and give. The UN launched a “flash appeal” on Aug. 9 to raise nearly $500 million to cover the first 90 days of disaster relief aid.Ten days later only half this money had been pledged, in sharp contrast to the response to the earthquake in Haiti earlier this year when nearly $600 million was raised in the same initial 10-day period.
Floods spread in Pakistan’s south, forcing as many as 1 million more to leave homes
Hundreds of thousands of Pakistanis fled floodwaters Friday after the surging River Indus smashed through levees in two places, but many refused to leave the danger zone while others took shelter in an ancient graveyard for Muslim saints.
