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Pakistan's tent camps

2011-09-24 31 Dailymotion

This tent town is home for some of the victims of Pakistan's floods.<br/> It's been set up by a non-governmental organisation to help the most vulnerable of the millions who've lost virtually everything.<br/> SOUNDBITE: Varyam, flood victim, saying (Sindhi):<br/> "Our village has been totally inundated. Nothing was left. We've been completely destroyed. So we've come to this camp. We're getting everything here and slowly our plight is improving."<br/> The monsoon rains that fell on Sindh province during a four week spell in August and September were the highest ever recorded, according to Pakistan's meteorological department.<br/> Both the Pakistan government and international humanitarian organisations are being accused of responding too slowly to the disaster.<br/> Some seven million people have been affected.<br/> More than a million homes have been damaged or completely destroyed.<br/> The inhabitants of this camp are the relatively lucky ones.<br/> Non-governmental groups, Islamic charities and the Pakistani army are trying to provide shelter, food and medical facilities but they can only help the most vulnerable.<br/> Millions more are still without shelter and little hope of the floods receding any time soon.<br/> Paul Chapman, Reuters

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