Pakistan 

Pakistan in numbers

• More than two million homes were damaged or destroyed in the floods, forcing approximately eight million individuals into displacement. 1.7 million hectares of crops were wiped out and over 800,000 livestock perished. 
• By end of 2023, it was estimated that around 1.8 million people still resided in close proximity
  to stagnant and polluted floodwaters.
• Pakistan ranks 13 in the world in levels of hazard and exposure. Each year, natural hazards across the country affect at least 3 million people (the 2022 floods affected 33 million people, over 1000% more than usual).
• The country ranks 161st on the Human Development Index.

Red Cross and Red Crescent movement response

With financial and technical support from the International Federation of the Red Cross (IFRC), the Pakistan Red Crescent (PRCS) reached over 546,000 people across the Sindh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Baluchistan provinces following the floods.

Relief items such as family tents, tarpaulins, shelter toolkits, hygiene kits, and kitchen sets were among the support given.

The British Red Cross supported shelter assistance with 388 family-sized tents and essential accessories, contributing to the overall shelter assistance PRCS provided to over 6000 families with emergency family tents in worst hit districts of Sindh province.

We also supplied 6000 Jerrycans were provided to displaced families to help them access and store drinking water, helping 42,000 people, and 5710 long lasting insecticide nets were also provided to families living in makeshift arrangements exposed to mosquitoes’ outbreaks - this supported almost 40,000 people.

Donate to the Pakistan Floods Appeal