As the true impact of the flooding in Pakistan becomes clear, thousands are left stranded without food and a health crisis looms on the horizon. FAMILIES in Pakistan are being left stranded and...
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Floods in Pakistan mean misery for children
Author: Asif Raza Zainab, 3, had never seen flood waters before. She didn’t understand how destructive they could be until she had witnessed the devastation herself. In addition to the visible marks...
Pakistan: World Vision responds to killer diseases
By Shahzad Badar, Communications Manager, World Vision Pakistan This year’s monsoon in Pakistan left damaged earth and disease in its wake. Families made destitute due to last year’s flooding have...
Pakistan: Crisis continues six months after disastrous floods
By World Vision staff Six months after catastrophic monsoon floods tore through Pakistan from north to south, marooning some 21 million people, including 9 million children, destroying 1.7 million...
Pakistan: World Vision says emergency will "get worse before it gets better"
- Access to some of the hardest-hit areas remains one of the biggest challenges, up to half of affected population still not reached - Aid worker says people are in "worse shape now than they were...
Pakistan: Survey in hardest-hit districts finds rapid increase of diarrhea, skin diseases in children
Aid agency says needs of the displaced "far exceed" the resources available Health concerns exacerbated by lack of shelter, some families may not be able to return home for at least three months ...
Floods soak southern Pakistan, World Vision prepares response
By World Vision MEER Communications Vast floods are creating a critical situation in southern Pakistan, with local media reports suggesting that millions of people are fleeing areas under threat from...
Pakistan: Flood relief efforts scale up as Ramadan begins
by World Vision MEER Comms As the scale of the crisis in Pakistan continues to grow, World Vision is stepping up efforts to meet the needs of families affected by the flood and who now face a month...
Pakistan: Renewed heavy rains and flash floods hamper relief efforts
By Muhammad Ali, Senior Communications Officer, World Vision Pakistan Unrelenting downpours, fresh floods and landslides are hampering efforts to provide urgently needed food to millions of people...
World Vision to help 150,000 people affected by floods in Pakistan
By Dwayne Mamo, MEER Communications (8 August 2010) World Vision continues to help thousands in the northern Pakistan Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa province (KPK) and plans to help at least 150,000 people...
Pakistan: Response continues; clinic opened in Lower Dir
By World Vision staff With evidence of waterborne disease on the rise, World Vision today opened an emergency primary health clinic in Lower Dir, an area of Pakistan severely hit by monsoons and...
Pakistan: Tremendous immediate and long-term challenges in flood response
By World Vision staff One of the worst hit districts of Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa (formerly called North West Frontier Province) has been reached by World Vision relief workers and food and water was...
Pakistan: World Vision struggles to reach flood survivors; funding urgently needed
Threat of disease outbreaks, need for drinking water are greatest concerns Aid group warns death count could rise further; road access is still blocked in many areas World Vision is planning a rapid...
Anger and Hate versus Peace and Prosperity: The real battle for Pakistan's future continues
Exactly one week ago, at 9.20 am on March 10, a routine office meeting was shattered by the sound of armed militants storming a World Vision office in Northwest Pakistan. The gunmen opened fire and...
InterAction, Oxfam and World Vision Discuss Attack on Humanitarian Workers with World Vision in Pakistan
More than five years after a deadly earthquake killed some 80,000 people there, humanitarian workers with World Vision are still providing aid in northwest Pakistan. With news today that several were...
Pakistan: Attack on World Vision staff brutal and senseless
World Vision today is mourning the brutal and senseless deaths of six members of our staff in the Mansehra District of Pakistan after an unprovoked attack by gunmen. The international humanitarian...
Pakistan: World Vision focuses on needs of displaced children and families returning home
As the return of some 2 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Pakistan's northwest region gains momentum, World Vision is underscoring both the right of the displaced to return voluntarily...
Pakistan: Rights of the displaced key concern as return gains momentum
By Syed Haider Ali and Rebecca Lyman, World Vision As the return of some 2 million Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Pakistan's northwest gains momentum, World Vision is underscoring both the...
Aid worker's blog: Two million Pakistanis long for home
By Chris Webster It is good to be home. After just a month away it's so good to see family and friends. I've just returned from working in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province where more than two...
Hosts of Pakistan's fleeing masses on brink of their own displacement, World Vision warns
Culture of hospitality pushed to its limits as communities provide refuge for hundreds of thousands fleeing violence - Hosts selling assets and sharing everything they have, risking extreme poverty...