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Pakistan floods 2010

Pakistan's worst floods for 80 years devastated huge areas of the country. Find out how we're helping people recover.

What we are doing in Pakistan

Old man receives food supplies in Pakistan

When the monsoon floods started claiming lives and destroying homes in Pakistan, the Red Cross moved quickly to respond, with food, shelter and medical care.

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Stories from Pakistan

Being pregnant at any time can be difficult, but being pregnant during monsoon floods brings particularly serious challenges.

Games and activities are helping children suffering the psychological impact of the Pakistan floods which changed their lives.

Hanifa barely escaped with her family when flood waters swept through Pakistan. She needs the basic items the Pakistan Red Cross is distributing.

Fazlay and his family of nine are struggling to get food after the floods destroyed their crops. They will need help for some time to come.

Manthar lost two of his children in the floods and his home was destroyed. As he returns to his village, he faces an uncertain future.

Saifdeen and his family survived Pakistan’s floods, but now he has no home, no food and his children are suffering with a fever.

Pakistan one year on

Volunteer hands over food supplies to family in Pakistan

One year on from Pakistan’s worst floods in 80 years, around 12 million people are still struggling to survive without any sustained means of income.

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Latest news about the appeal

Six months after the floods in Pakistan began, millions of people remain homeless and in need of emergency aid.

British Red Cross logistics specialists are helping over 90,000 people a week receive relief items and food in southern Pakistan.

We have deployed a team of sanitation and hygiene specialists as public health is severely threatened after Pakistan’s floods.

In the aftermath of Pakistan’s floods, which has affected more than 18 million people, the consequences of this disaster continue to unfold.

A team of British Red Cross logistics specialists has arrived in Pakistan to help co-ordinate the arrival of aid so it can be delivered to those most in need.

The Red Cross will increase its relief operation in Pakistan five-fold, to reach more than two million people with aid in the coming months.

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