article / سبتمبر 16, 2011
News: Over 5 million affected as floods continue to cripple Southern Pakistan
“In Badin, Sindh’s worst-hit district, this year’s flooding is even worse than last year’s,” said World Vision Pakistan’s National Director, Alexander Davey. “In the last month alone, the number of flood-affected people has more than doubled.
article / يونيو 21, 2011
News: Pakistan villages bear brunt of more flooding- World Vision medical staff respond
On the sandy plains of Sindh in Ghotki, 90 kilometres from the town of Sukkur, families of the poorest of the poor have again been rendered homeless and stripped of their livelihoods as their fields turn into muddy swamps.
article / أكتوبر 31, 2005
Back to Pakistan – Another day, another aftershock
I spent two days in Islamabad to handover from a colleague who had to return to Dubai. I also spent time reading up on Pakistan labour law and getting briefed on current and planned projects.
article / أكتوبر 24, 2005
A mass eviction & the race against time in Pakistan
This was my day off and I was wondering what I’d write about until the late afternoon when the landlord showed up at our team house in Mansehra, North West Frontier Province. He announced we needed to be gone by this evening. We were evicted.
article / أبريل 12, 2012
Better health and hygiene practices improve health and lives in Pakistan
“I used to scavenge through the heaps of trash bare footed to collect scrap to fetch some extra money for myself but after becoming aware about health and hygiene practices, I do not do so, to stay clean and protected from germs and disease,” said Basit Ali,11, a fifth grader from Abbass
article / أكتوبر 24, 2005
When delivering aid in Pakistan feels like triage
His next move shocked us. I cried out, “He’s trying to grab the truck keys!” but I was completely wrong. Our driver was embarrassed. The man was trying to grab his knee like a medieval peasant begging his overlord.
article / يوليو 20, 2009
Food aid relieves burden in Pakistan’s conflict-torn northwest
Initiated in June following a massive displacement of people as a result of conflict between the Pakistani military and Taliban militants, the project will provide 24,983 households in Mardan district with wheat, pulses, vegetable oil, salt, sugar and tea until the end of the year.
article / مارس 3, 2009
Tree campaign breathes life and resilience in Pakistan’s Siran valley
“I still remember the moment, when on October 8, a massive earthquake shook everything.
article / سبتمبر 3, 2010
Pakistan floods: Saqib, 5, “It was like thunder”…
On the first day of the rain, Saqib’s family, like most people from Koto, enjoyed the rain, which gave them respite from the summer sun.