Flood relief

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Emergency assistance in Pakistan

The consequences of the climate crisis are clearly noticeable in Pakistan. Our focus is therefore on disaster preparedness: Help is improving access to healthcare and drinking water supplies and training emergency teams to prepare their communities for emergencies. We are also particularly committed to the health of expectant mothers.

+++ We are monitoring the current situation following the floods in our project region of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and are looking into possible emergency response measures. +++

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20.6

million people need humanitarian aid

1700

people died in the 2022 flood disaster

million people were affected by the flood

Flood relief and disaster preparedness

Employee of our partner organisation talking to mothers — Help stands up for women in Pakistan.

Following severe flooding in the summer of 2022, Help provided affected families in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region with urgently needed relief supplies such as food and mosquito nets to help prevent the spread of diseases such as malaria and dengue fever.

Meanwhile, our focus is on disaster preparedness: we are improving access to healthcare by deploying mobile clinics, promoting drinking water supplies and raising awareness of hygiene practices to prevent the spread of disease. We are also training emergency teams in 50 communities so that people can respond better to future disasters.

Help is particularly committed to empowering women: In particular, we support expectant mothers with pre- and post-natal care, psychosocial support, nutritional supplements and hygiene products. Our aim is to improve maternal health and reduce the mortality rate among pregnant women.

Donors and partners: ADH (Aktion Deutschland Hilft), CAMP

The climate crisis is clearly noticeable

Eingebrochene Straße in Pakistan nach Flut — 12,700 kilometers of roads were damaged by the floods.

Pakistan is one of the countries most severely affected by climate change worldwide. Natural disasters such as earthquakes and floods are becoming increasingly frequent, especially during the monsoon season. The rural population is neither prepared nor equipped to help themselves in the event of a disaster.

In the summer of 2022, a disaster struck: one third of the country was under water. Rivers burst their banks, over a million buildings were severely damaged and much of the infrastructure was completely destroyed. Numerous families lost their homes and livelihoods. Over 33 million people were affected by the flood disaster. 1,700 people lost their lives.

Poverty has many faces in Pakistan: income, healthcare and education are distributed extremely unequally. Even though new laws explicitly strengthen the protection of women, many women are disadvantaged from birth. In addition, the military continues to play an important role in government and society. However, the middle class in particular has become increasingly involved in civil society in recent years.

The flood disaster in the summer of 2022 made it clear that access to healthcare in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region is very limited. Women and children in particular are suffering from the situation. The likelihood of a woman dying in childbirth is 26% higher in rural areas of Pakistan, where home births are common.

Our mobile clinic is therefore particularly important. Fauzia, who has already lost a child herself due to the lack of healthcare, is also aware of this.

Women face many problems when it comes to maternal and child health. It has often happened that women have died before reaching the health centers because there is no specialist doctor in our village. In fact, there is no health center nearby.

Fauzia, 32