Pakistan Floods Emergency Appeal Act for Peace has responded with emergency assistance and ongoing support to the people of Pakistan after monsoon floods hit the country in July 2010. Tragically, almost 2,000 people lost their lives in the powerful flood tide, and millions of people were forced to leave their homes for safety, leaving a trail of destroyed houses, water-supply schemes, farmland and infrastructure.

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Act for Peace has responded with emergency assistance and ongoing support to the people of Pakistan after monsoon floods hit the country in July 2010. For more information on the response of Act for Peace and other humanitarian agencies in Australia to the 2010 floods, please click here to read the report The long road, produced by the Australian Council for International Development.

An estimated 18 million people were affected by the torrential floods which began in the northern province of Khyber Pakhtunkwa and swept down through the Indus River to inundate Punjab, Sindh, Baluchistan and Sindh provinces. Following the immediate needs for food, shelter and health services, affected communities now require support to rebuild infrastructure, and re-establish livelihoods through cash and material support.

Act for Peace has responded with emergency assistance, supporting project partner Church World Service Pakistan/Afghanistan (CWS-P/A) which provided more than 90,000 people with emergency food, and 75,000 with non-food items including hygiene items, kitchen utensils and shelter materials in Khyber Pakhtunkwa and Sindh provinces. In the months following the flood disaster, Act for Peace has continued to support CWS-P/A through the provision of preventive and curative health services to nearly 10,000 flood-affected households through health facilities in the north of Pakistan. Act for Peace will also assist CWS-P/A in carrying out construction trade-related skills training for youth to support the rehabilitation of housing and infrastructure.