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Monday, September 19, 2011
FACES Pakistan initiates relief campaign in Badin
Staff Report
LAHORE: The FACES Pakistan, a non-profit non-government organisation, has started relief and rescue work in different villages of the agro-industrial Badin district after unprecedented rains and floods caused widespread devastation in interior Sindh.
Quoting the district government’s statistics, the FACES Pakistan said in its statement that over one million people had been affected by torrential rains in Badin, while 46 union councils and 6,395 villages had been totally damaged in the district. About 984,805 acres of land had also been affected, a recent government summary revealed.
The FACES Pakistan distributed relief goods in Moosa Turk, Mitho Hajam, Allah Bachaio, Abdul Qadir Sodho, Chak, and 20 villages of the Tarai union council affected by the monsoon rains. The food packages distributed among the rain victims consisted packages of wheat, flour, cooking oil, rice, sugar, pulses, dry milk, tea and other basic food items.
Some non-food items like, toilet and washing soaps, anti-bacterial liquids, mosquito nets, etc, were also included in the relief package.
Courtesy www.dailytimes.com.pk