Heavy Monsoon rains across Pakistan started on 21 July this year and have let to the incidence of flash and river flooding in numerous parts of the country; causing loss of life, extensive destruction of homes and livelihoods, and resultant displacement. Current flood is reported to be the worst floods in the country since 1929.
Current estimates place the number of affected people at more than 15.3 million of which 1,404 people have died and an estimated 893,662 have seen their homes damaged or destroyed. Many of this displaced are women and children who have taken refuge along roads, and temporary relief sites in the hope of gaining life-saving humanitarian assistance.
The project will provide vital life-saving WASH assistance to reduce the vulnerability of 6,000 flood-affected families through the provision of clean drinking water, hygiene promotion and kits to 51,150 families and sanitations to 865 families, focusing on female-headed households, within a maximum period of three months in coordination with WASH Cluster, NDMA, PDMA of Baluchistan, Sind, Punjab and KPK, and local Government authorities, and the Federation. The provinces of intervention include Baluchistan (Distrcit Sibi and Naseerabad), Sindh (District Sukhur), Punjab (District Muzaffargarh) and KPK (District Charsadda and Nowshera).