UN News Centre | News Focus: Pakistan floods

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visited Pakistan on Aug.15. He spoke of

the “heart-wrenching” destruction and suffering that he witnessed, saying,

“These unprecedented floods demand unprecedented assistance.”

The UN’s emergency relief coordinator, John Holmes, also said: “This is a

disaster which has affected many more people than I have ever seen. What

we saw confirms the scale and urgency of the needs.”

The UN has already delivered food to nearly 800,000 people and provided

access to clean drinking water to nearly 1.4 million and medical supplies

to 1.8 million people. With its partner agencies, the UN plans to help at

least 8 million Pakistanis in the coming weeks.

Angelina Jolie visits Pakistan to see flood damage

Angelina Jolie has visited a refugee camp in northwest Pakistan in an effort to maintain global attention and compassion for the millions affected by the floods.

The UN, for whom she works as a goodwill ambassador, has said it has only received around two thirds of the $459m in aid needed to provide relief for the 21m Pakistanis affected.

Orla Guerin reports from the Azakhel refugee camp near Nowshera.

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Up to 6 million people will need food assistance over the next three

months, over 5,000 schools have been damaged, 7.9 acres of crops have been

damaged or lost, and 4.6 million survivors are still without shelter. The

Pakistan Government estimates that up to 20 million people have been

affected by the flooding and more flooding is predicted.

Our solidarity with people around the world requires urgent action.

It is our responsibility, as people who care about others, to ensure that

the humanitarian impact of this disaster does not escalate even higher.

We need YOUR HELP for the worst floods in the history of Pakistan.

We wish to reach out to more people and do much more than our current

programs For this we need more funds, more volunteers and your continued

support!

However, as already highlighted by UN, this will be a major undertaking

given the huge scale of the disaster, and we will need to raise large

amounts of funds to be able to do so successfully.

Please Help us in our efforts.

Thanks

Amjad Islam

Chairman Nippon Marks