The floods in Pakistan in 2010 affected 18 million people, destroying homes, infrastructure, and livelihoods. Over the past two years, aid organizations worked to provide emergency relief through food, water, and shelter. Long-term efforts focused on rebuilding communities by constructing new homes, cleaning schools, rebuilding infrastructure, and providing cash-for-work programs. Support now aims to help vulnerable groups become self-sufficient again through activities like giving women goats to breed and sell or ensuring disabled people can live independently.

1. Pakistan floods: two years on

2. The floods that hit Pakistan in 2010 affected 18 million
people, and destroyed houses, roads and bridges over
vast areas.

3. We provided food,
water and emergency
kits – including
blankets, sheets and
cooking utensils – to
people who’d been
forced from their
homes.

4. As the floods receded,
we helped people to
construct new
shelters..

5. Two women
demonstrate the
level of flooding on
one of only three
houses that weren’t
washed away in
Parto Malik, Sindh
Province.

6. Sat Bai and her daughter
outside their new
shelter in Parto Malik.
She holds a picture of
her son, who was killed
in the floods.
“I lost my son,” she
said, ”but God gave me a
new home.”

7. We provided clean water and hygiene training to help prevent
the spread of disease.

8. We employed people to
clean up damaged
schools, and rebuild
roads and water supply
schemes, in return for
cash to cover their basic
needs.

9. Today, we are helping
families who lost
everything to become
self-reliant again – for
example by providing
seeds and fertiliser to
help people grow crops.

10. Our partner AWARD has
given goats to women in
remote villages in Punjab,
which they are breeding
to sell for a profit.

11. We are ensuring that disabled people who lost everything in the
floods have the support they need to live independently.

12. And we are helping communities plan for future disasters – for
example by rebuilding bridges so that they can evacuate safely
in future emergencies

13. Thanks to your compassion,
we have reached more than
385,000 people affected by
the floods.
Please keep the people of
Pakistan in your thoughts
and prayers.
Photos
Robert Cruickshank, Lucy Morris, Monika Vrsanska/CAFOD
Eoghan Rice/Trócaire
Asad Zaidi/Catholic Relief Services