(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) Turkish and Pakistani humanitarian relief agencies continue
their efforts months after devastating floods hit several regions
in Pakistan, reports citing .
Nestled on the northern outskirt of Dadu district in Pakistan, a
housing facility set up by Türkiye's Disaster and Emergency
Management Authority (AFAD) has been a temporary home for more than
one month for Naik Mohammad.
Mohammad is one of the hundreds of thousands of Pakistanis
displaced by heavy floods in September.
A resident of Mehar in Dadu, one of the badly hit districts in
the southern Sindh province, Mohammad, along with his family, took
refuge at the local railway station when his small village was
inundated by unprecedented rains and floods.
The floundered family lived there until the district
administration moved them to the sprawling housing facility.
'We went through fear, and hunger until we reached here,' said
the 56-year-old farmer.
Outside of a huge tent, which serves as a mosque, Mohammad told
Anadolu Agency (AA) that he feels 'safe and secure' after the
weeklong trauma, particularly the treacherous journey he had to
endure to save his and his family's lives.
'It's of course not an alternative to your own home. But at
least you get shelter and food here,' he said.
Monsoon rains, likely made worse by climate change, hammered
Pakistan for months starting in mid-June, damaging or washing away
2 million homes.
Pakistan's new finance minister estimated that it could take
“close to three years'' for the South Asian country to recover from
devastating floods that killed more than 1,700 people and displaced
another 7.9 million.
Rajab Ali, a resident of the nearby Khairpur Nathan Shah,
another locality hard-hit by the floods, did not sit idly in
contrast to other families.
Ali's wife Meeran Bibi, with the help of her daughters, makes
embroidered handkerchiefs that Rajab sells in Dadu, where he works
as a laborer.
'We are thankful to our Turkish brothers for helping us at this
trying time. But, we must not be a permanent burden on them,' Ali,
who owned a small piece of cropland in the suburbs of Khairpur
Nathan Shah before the floods struck, told AA.