August 8th 2010 - For the past 10 days, torrential monsoon rainfall has killed more than 1,600 people inflicted widesperad damage across the country, with the northwestern province of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP) suffering the greatest losses, federal authorities and aid agencies say.
Estimates vary over the number of people affected by the floods. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on 8 August four million had been affected, while some media reports suggest up to 14 million.
Unrelenting downpours continue to limit relief efforts and have grounded helicopters in KP, leaving thousands of people cut off in areas where roads and bridges have been swept away.
Those who made it out of Charsadda to provincial capital Peshawar on restored roads said there were severe shortages of potable water there, low food stocks and dead animals lying in stagnant water. [Source: IRIN]
Orphans In Need are doing a live TV appeal for the orphans of the Pakistan Floods on sky channel 843 (Ramadan TV) from the 19th August to 23rd August 2010.
We need urgent funds to provide Emergency shelter for orphans - help save an orphans life now!
With over 3.5 million children facing death in pakistan right now due to water-born diseases as well as malaria, typhoid, malnutrion and other deadly diseases. Please donate as much as you can! For £800.00 you can provide shelter for 4 orphans (double twin bedroom). For £360.00 per annum you can sponsor and individual orphan.
How to donate
For online donations please visit our secure donations page and make a donation in the "Pakistan Floods" box or call the donation line: 0800 999 0852.
Or alternatively download or direct debit or standing order form shown on the right.
