Pakistan flooding 2011

In 2010, Save the Children New Zealand donors contributed nearly $350,000 to help children and families affected by floods in Pakistan. Over 3 million flood-affected children and their families received the medical care and supplies they urgently needed.

As Pakistan recovered from the catastrophic floods of 2010, record-breaking monsoon rains in the Sindh province in August and September 2011 put hundreds of thousands of children's lives at risk again.

More than 5.4 million people in the Sindh province were affected by the floods in 2011.  Many children and their families were left marooned, living on roadsides or in makeshift camps, without clean drinking water or sanitation, while stagnant floodwaters become breeding grounds for waterborne diseases and for mosquitoes carrying malaria.

In Badin, one of the hardest-hit districts, cases of malaria increased in the space of two weeks by 20 percent in children, a quarter of them under-five years old. In Mirpur Khas, deadly respiratory infections such as pneumonia increased by 44 percent - half of the cases were children.

Save the Children New Zealand provided an additional $100,000 to fund further emergency relief work as the disease outbreaks were compounded by the fact that UN food stocks, medicines, emergency shelter and safe drinking water supplies were starting to run low. 

Save the Children is one of only a few international agencies who were able to deliver aid in southern Sindh in 2011.

In response to the 2011 emergency in Pakistan Save the Children reached over 400,000 people with food, healthcare, shelter and basic household goods. We have also established safe play areas to help children recover from the distress caused to them by the disaster.

We could not save lives and ensure children are safe in the wake of emergencies like this without the support of the New Zealand public. Thank You.