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When the water came

Ten-year-old Waseem and his family were forced to leave their home during the extreme flooding聽in July and August 2010.聽

Some of his relatives are still living in a nearby camp but half of his family have recently returned to their village.聽

Funding聽from the聽UK government聽is helping thousands of flood survivors like Waseem聽move back聽to their communities by providing them with shelter materials, clean drinking water, latrines and hygiene kits.

Waseem still聽remembers the night that the disaster struck his community, washing away buildings, belongings and food which had been stored for the year ahead.

鈥淲ater was everywhere. Our homes and rice crop were totally destroyed and we had no grain or food left,鈥� he says. 鈥淲e had nothing and were totally helpless.鈥�

鈥淓ventually a tractor with a trailer rescued us and took us to a camp. But there were no tents, so we had to sleep in the open. It was really hard.鈥�

Rebuilding homes, rebuilding lives

With UKaid funding, the charity Concern Worldwide聽has provided Waseem鈥檚 family with tents and plastic sheeting for shelter, and tools and wheelbarrows to help them clear mud from the remains of their home.

Concern Worldwide are also installing new hand-pumps, which will provide essential clean drinking water for the village.

Waseem鈥檚 grandfather, and head of the household, 70-year-old Long Khan explains how important the aid has been: 鈥溁使谔逵齛pp shelter we鈥檝e been given has helped to protect us from the sun and to fight the mosquitoes at night,鈥� he says. 鈥淎ll my family lives in it.鈥�

鈥淲e use the shovel to dig earth and debris from our site and the wheelbarrow to remove it. We use the聽handsaw to cut bamboos to fix our shelter.鈥�

皇冠体育app family has also received sleeping mats, washing bowls, utensils, tools and personal hygiene kits.聽

Back to school

Before the floods, Waseem used to go to school. But all his books and pens got washed away when the water swept through his village.

鈥淎ll my books are gone. 皇冠体育app school is gone. Everything is gone,鈥� he says.

鈥淚 want to go to school, but I don鈥檛 have a pencil or a pen. Without these, I can only learn by heart. I want to be a doctor or a teacher. I also like the army very much.鈥�

Over the coming months, the UK government will be helping 200,000 children like Waseem get back to school by funding the repair of 1,500 school buildings and providing 200 temporary learning facilities across Punjab and Sindh.

皇冠体育appre is a long way to go for Waseem and his family聽as they聽rebuild their home and their lives, but this essential humanitarian aid is supporting them as they return to their village and begin the process of recovery.

Facts and stats

UK aid support to Concern Worldwide will address the emergency shelter, household and water and sanitation needs of 90,600 flood affected households (634,200 beneficiaries) in Sindh province. This will include shelter and non food items to 49,600 families.

Materials, toolkits and cash-for-work schemes will provide聽shelter to 4,000 families. Strengthening people鈥檚 homes will protect families from future flooding.

An emergency shelter kit for one family includes two plastic sheets, rope, bamboo poles and a toolkit.

A 鈥榳interization鈥� kit which provides protection from the cold weather includes two blankets, two local-style mattresses and one floor mat. Hygiene kits include soap, combs, toothpaste, toothbrushes and towels.