Emergencies

Punjab, one of the heaviest populated regions in Pakistan, was among the hardest hit by the floods. After losing their homes in the disaster, three families are now living together in an old school house. One of the kids in the group is Shanza, who has clear ideas about her future.

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Amid growing concerns about disease and malnutrition among the millions of Pakistanis displaced by catastrophic flooding, WFP is providing nutritious ready-to-use foods designed to stem child malnutrition. The province of Sindh – which already had some of the worst nutrition indicators before the disaster – is particularly at risk.

As millions of flood victims across Pakistan struggle to feed their children, the country's already high levels of malnutrition risk climbing above the emergency threshold. A nutritionist in southern Sindh province, Bilan Osmanjama explains what’s being done to keep this epic natural disaster from becoming a child-hunger crisis.

The toll of Pakistan's flooding is mounting. The situation for hundreds of thousands of families is only getting worse. UNICEF is working around the clock to provide clean water, medicine, vaccinations and therapeutic foods for the children most in need.

WFP’s Marco Frattini visits Punjab, “the land of five rivers,” where epic floods have laid waste to millions of acres of farmland. While there he meets Moreed, whose family is waiting for the waters to recede in a tent on the side of the road. They’re among millions in Pakistan surviving on food aid from WFP. Watch video

Oscar Rosana, a logistics officer from Nairobi, came to Pakistan two weeks before the floods broke out, sparking a humanitarian emergency. When the waters engulfed two key warehouses, a routine assignment turned into a race against time to salvage desperately needed food stores.

After floodwaters washed over her home in the Sindh district of southern Pakistan, Menaz and her family sought refuge in the Sukkur camp for flood victims where WFP is providing them with nutritionally enriched wheat to make bread, oil, and high-energy biscuits tailored to her children’s nutritional needs.

Three weeks after this photo was taken, the humanitarian situation in Pakistan remains dire. This photo of a submerged city in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa in the north-western provinces--where the massive flooding began--is being replicated throughout the flood zone. Punjab, Balochistan, and now Sindh province, have since been innundated. In all, 1/5 of the country is under water.

Three weeks after this photo was taken, the humanitarian situation in Pakistan remains dire. This photo of a submerged city in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa in the north-western provinces--where the massive flooding began--is being replicated throughout the flood zone. Punjab, Balochistan, and now Sindh province, have since been innundated. In all, 1/5 of the country is under water.