Relief activities in flood hit areas are under threat due to lack of funds, warn International aid agencies

Relief activities in flood hit areas are under threat due to lack of funds, warn International aid agencies

A group of international aid agencies have warned that the relief efforts reaching the flood affected people of Southern Pakistan are under threat due to lack of funds.

The aid agencies working in the flood hit areas of Sindh and Balochistan on Thursday warned that the flood relief programmes underway in the affected areas would face serious setback if the donor agencies did not release the funds soon. The group, comprising
Care, Save the Children, ACTED and Oxfam have called the donors community, national and international, release the funds as soon as possible.

More than nine million people affected by the recent floods are at the risk of epidemic diseases and malnutrition. While the other five million, who are being catered by the aid agencies are under threat to fall short of the relief goods being provided to
them.

The Oxfam has planned to reach 3.9 million people in the flood affected districts of Sindh, however, if the funds are not released at the earliest then the organization will be forced to cut back its efforts after next month and the people would it planned
to reach would go without help.

Neva Khan, the Country Director of Oxfam in Pakistan told the media reporters that more than two months have passed since the calamity had hit the Southern Pakistan, millions of people are still without basic needs.

“Over two months into the crisis millions of people are still without basics,” said Neva while talking to the media reporters on Thursday. “If relief operations stop, it could lead to an unimaginable catastrophe…The precarious food system is under threat.
We urgently need to see the same donor generosity and giving that took place last year during the floods,” she urged.

The Country Director of Care International in Pakistan, Waleed Rauf told the media reporters that Care is facing a shortfall of 91 percent in its targeted funds and due to shortage of funds they have reached only ten per cent of their targeted population
so far.

“Care has used its own resources to fund this response, which is focusing on emergency healthcare and food security. Due to a funding shortfall, we’ve only reached roughly 10 percent of the targeted 150,000 in need of emergency healthcare in the areas where
we and our local partners operate,” said Waleed Rauf, Country Director of Care International in Pakistan.

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