October 19, 2022
BCIE PAKISTAN FLOOD RELIEF
BCIE PAKISTAN FLOOD RELIEF DONATION 2,50,000 PKR
Heavy rains and a combination of riverine, urban and flash flooding have led to an unprecedented climate-induced disaster in Pakistan since June 2022, causing widespread fatalities, killing livestock, and damaging and destroying public and private infrastructure across the country. Rain-induced landslides and floods have also damaged agricultural land and forests, impacting local ecosystems.84 districts nationwide have been notified as ‘calamity hit’ by the Government of Pakistan, mainly in Balochistan (32 districts), Sindh (23 districts) and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (17 districts).
Around 33 million people have been affected by the heavy rains and floods, including at least 7.9 million people who have been displaced, of whom some 598,000 are living in relief camps. Nearly 800,000 refugees are estimated to be hosted in more than 40 calamity-notified districts, including over 175,600 women, 194,000 girls and 206,000 boys. Two districts host nearly half this refugee population – Peshawar in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Quetta in Balochistan. According to the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), between 14 June and 28 September more than 1,600 people were killed and over 12,800 people were injured as a result of the heavy rains and floods, including 333 women and 615 children killed and 3,452 women and 4,006 children injured. One-third of all recorded deaths and injuries are children, while nearly half of all deaths and 66 per cent of all injuries were recorded in Sindh. Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa each reported around 19 per cent of all recorded deaths, while Punjab reported 30 per cent of all injuries. More than 2 million houses have been affected, comprising over 767,000 houses destroyed and nearly 1.3 million houses damaged. Eighty-nine per cent of this is in Sindh, where over 683,000 houses were destroyed and over 1.1 million houses were damaged. Sindh also contains 64 per cent of the over 13,000 kilometres of roads and 40 per cent of the 410 bridges damaged or destroyed nationwide. Public infrastructure damage is next highest in Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, with Balochistan incurring 17 per cent of total recorded road damage and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa recording 12 per cent of all road damages and 26 per cent of all damaged and destroyed bridges. This impact on critical transport infrastructure has inhibited the ability of people wishing to move away from reaching safer areas, as well as impeded access to markets and services and the delivery of aid to people in need.
BCIE ltd donated 2,50,000 PKR for our Pakistan staff to personally visit the affected areas and distribute whatever was needed there. After some investigations we came to know that basic food items were needed the most so we purchased the following.
- Fine Flour 15KG per Bag ( 50 Bags)
- Sugar 5KG per Bag ( 250KG)
- Cooking Oil 3KG per bag ( 150 Bags)
- Tea 1KG per Bag ( 50KG)
Nadeem and Ali from BCIE Islamabad went to an area called Matta. Matta is an administrative subdivision of Swat District in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan which is 256KM far from Islamabad. It took 4hr and 45minutes to get there with a truck loaded by 50 bags.
