The current flood disaster of Pakistan has been so great that all superlatives of language have already been used. Therefore I am choosing the photo medium here as it may be better than writing thousand more words. As with other natural disasters, flood affected children in Pakistan are especially vulnerable and need our attention.
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Nowshera, Pakistan.
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Sharing food in a flood relief camp.
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Transporting flood affectees to the camps.
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Following photo is from Chakra Goth which is a camp for flood affectees outside Karachi. It was published in today’s Jang newspaper.
In an earlier post here Adil Najam and our readers have mentioned several good ways of helping the flood victims of Pakistan. I want to add worldvision.org to the list – as they especially work for child welfare besides general humanitarian work.
Children of Pakistani Floods, A motivating post.
A very critical time for Pakistan and for the children. We need to share their sorrows and try to lessen the miseries by helping them.
Owais, can you or Adil bhai write your thoughts about this:
http://vidpk.com/discussions/view_message.php?fid= 4&msgid=43603
Let’s say:
No of people affected by floods: 20 million
Birth rate in rural Pakistan: 3% per year
Average duration of devastating affect of flood: 1 month
No of babies born while family struggling with disaster: 50,000
No of children under 2 years: 1,200,000
How would you manage, save and feed your family if your area was flooded?
Good comment Yahya. Yes, these children are our future. Let us not loose them to the extremists.
I remember a post at this blog during the IDP crisis which argued that the children in the camps will define the future of the country. I think even more than that these children will. For millions of children who will grow up to be young men and women, this will be the defining memory of their lives and that memory will be defined by how the rest of us treat them.