Photo of the week: Pakistan needs your help

Over the past few days, Pakistan has been affected by some of its worst floods in eighty years. Over a thousand people have died and more than two million people have been affected by these floods.

Tens of thousands of people have been forced to shelter on rooftops, trees and electricity poles.

An estimated 70 percent of the region’s livestock is gone as thousands of acres of crops, schools, homes and infrastructure has been washed away by the floods.

So far, the Pakistani government has delivered little immediate aid.

A young girl stands next to a building in Bazargai, Pakistan. Six months after the devastating 2005 earthquake, people continued facing new obstacles in rebuilding their communities.

ActionAid is gearing up to provide emergency relief focused on food, water, hygiene and sanitation, non food items and shelter. Special attention will be given to women and children as well as people with disabilities.

ActionAid has been working in Pakistan since 1992 and has coordinated a number of aid projects, such as the Emergency and Reconstruction Project which coordinated the relief efforts of the October 2005 earthquake.

ActionAid also provided food and hygiene kits when over two million people were forced to flee as fighting broke out between the Taliban and the Pakistani government last year.

Visit the ActionAid Australia website for more information on our emergency relief operations in Pakistan