Still smiling despite destruction.
A makeshift mud barrier next to the stagnant flood water yards away from the village of Malik Ibrahim
A young boy from Malik Ibrahim stands 3 metres from his home and 2 metres from the flood waters, which will stand for months until the ground can soak it away
Often latrines and tubewells have been build on the same ground, so water which could be clean is contaminated
Houses have been destroyed as their mud foundations have dissolved in the water.
Scenes like this, with water stretching to the distance, are common now in Pakistan.
Farmland and living space is lost
A school was flooded, leaving vital textbooks waterlogged and scattered over the street
Locals consider the destruction of their homes. As the winter approaches, reconstruction will be a slow and expensive process.
A house, some flooded land, a child and a pile of debris that was once a home.
Without better shelters, people have nowhere to stay and nowhere to call home.
Villagers return from the Malik Ibrahim distribution point to their homes in the village, with flooding on either side.
Even the houses of local landowners have been flooded out. Unlike the poor, however, these people have somewhere to go if their houses are uninhabitable.
Beautiful, still and hot, this landscape will not change for many months, and will give no harvest until early 2012
Community members providing verification of receipt of distribution
Hygiene training in Mallik Ibrahim.
Government officer helping to organize women in a village.
Hygiene education session held for community members.
People in line at a distribution center.
Women carrying relief materials.
FH is supplying shelter material to 5,500 families. Here we see one of the ways in which material can be used to form a sturdy shelter to get families through the winter
FH staff train local volunteers in constructing shelters to replaces houses that have been washed away
New shelters in Malik Ibrahim
Shelter in Mallik Ibrahim.
Children play around their village
Building a shelter.
An FH distribution point. FH and our local partner Interfaith League Against Poverty have distributed bamboo, nails, tarpaulins, shovels, hammers, hygiene kits and kitchen kits to help people rebuild their houses and make them into homes again.
Children with a clean water filter given by FH and ILAP
(1/5) This is what contaminated water looks like....
(2/5)...yet Scott Powell of partners Engineering Ministries International is taking a glassful.
(3/5) He's not crazy - the water has just run through the simple filters distributed by FH and ILAP in Bhong Sharif, and is now safe to drink.
(4/5)...though the villagers, used to filthy water and no alternative, find it very hard to believe.
(5/5) the difference is noticeable, and this clean water will cut the incidence of water-bourne diseases in communities, giving people an alternative to ill health.
A water filter installed in the house of a beneficiary in Bhong Sharif
A school underwater.
Damage caused to stored food.
Most houses in Bhong Shorif are damaged.
Temporary site for families and cattle.
Assembling shelter.
Waterlogged crops.
