27 December 2011
Jen Steele is the International Rescue Committee’s education programme officer. She is based in New York.
My IRC colleagues and I know that children affected by crisis, whether war or natural disaster, need help restoring a sense of normalcy and safety in...
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16 December 2011
SINDH PROVINCE, Pakistan - Farmers who lost their rice crops in the record floods of 2010 transplant seedlings from an International Rescue Committee paddy to be replanted in their own fields. The IRC has supplied seed and fertiliser, and funded the repair of irrigation culverts... More >
30 August 2011
By Pi James
Sindh Province, Pakistan - It's hard to place a value on a goat in a place like Sindh, but it's no surprise that at a recent distribution of thousands of goats, thousands of flood-affected families waited patiently in line. Residents of the Pakistani province are... More >
11 August 2011
Euan Robinson, IRC-UK policy officer, recently visited Sindh province in Pakistan, one of the regions hit the worst by last year’s floods.
DAY 3
Even before the floods hit, many people in Sindh did not have access to health care. Whatever clinics and medical... More >
5 August 2011
Euan Robinson, IRC-UK policy officer, recently visited Sindh province in Pakistan, one of the regions hit the worst by last year’s floods.
DAY 2
This morning we drove the long straight road from Sukkur towards Shikarpur. The road, which is the busiest... More >
28 July 2011
By Euan Robinson
“The day the floods came, we lost everything we had – our houses, money, cattle and infrastructure were all totally destroyed.” (Razia Sultana)
For people across Sindh province, last year’s floods changed everything. Today, I visited Tart Moriyo, a village... More >
28 July 2011
In May-June 2011, Euan Robinson, IRC Policy and Advocacy Officer, travelled to Sindh province in southwest Pakistan to learn how communities are recovering from the 2010 floods. Their experiences have been documented in a short film, After the Flood, which highlights the experiences of... More >
27 July 2011
This week IRC-UK, with the support from the Thomson Reuters Foundation, launched After the Flood, a photo exhibition in central London marking the one-year anniversary of the devastating floods in Pakistan. Featuring the work of Pulitzer Prize winning photographer Adrees Latif and IRC... More >
25 July 2011
By Ned Colt
Nowshera, Pakistan - They are distressing photos, but the community elders are almost giddy as they study them. “Yes, that’s him!” one calls out in Pashto, jabbing a finger at a bearded man in one photo. “That one there? She gave up and moved to the city,”... More >
14 July 2011
Sukkur City, Pakistan — Pakistan is now at the start of the annual monsoon season, and there are concerns as to whether the country is prepared. In late June, the United Nations reported that as many as five million people could be displaced by flooding this year.
A possible sign... More >
