Flood 2010 Situation

The 2010 Pakistan floods began in late July 2010, resulting from heavy monsoon rains in the Khyber Pakhtunekhwa, Sindh, Panjab, and Balochistan regions of Pakistan and affected the Indus river basin. Approximately one-fifth of Pakistan's total land area was underwater, approximately 796,095 square kilometers (307,374 sq mi). According to Pakistani government data the floods directly affected about 20 million people, mostly by destruction of property, livelihood and infrastructure, with a death toll of close to 2,000.

Flood Affected in Sindh Province: 7,184,550 persons, 7,277 villages, and 876,249 homes destroyed or damaged.

The water flowing from Indus river basin passed through Sindh Province area that causes a huge flooding and inundated some districts in the country. The tremendous flooding had displaced millions of people, damage millions of agricultural crops and scathe houses and livelihood of the vulnerable villages. There are families who went back to their ruined houses but nothing more to start with they need assistance from every part of the World to rebuild what ever left by flood. However, there are still areas where people can not go back due to the presence of water, damage of infrastructure and natural depressions.

IDP returning to their village had multiple needs and priorities such as;

• Restoration of livelihoods

• Construction of basic shelter for living,

• WASH facilities for daily consumptions

Base line survey

During the baseline survey the respondents (especially women) mentioned latrines as one of their dire needs. Flood affected populace bring up that due to the absence of safe drinking water and sanitation provisions it creates stress and spread diseases in the environment. The incidents of water and sanitation related diseases were common in the area and people had no access to soap for hand washing after defecation specially. Approximately 80% diarrhea cases occurred when they went back to their villages, children aged less than 5 years old are more recipient of diarrhea. Children were malnourished with pale and weak physical conditions. There were also cases of Malaria but it was difficult to have laboratory test to determine if the fever occurrence is due to malaria. People were keep complaining about the extremely presence of mosquitoes in the areas;

No proper Sanitation

In the three selected districts (Thatta, Khairpur, & Matiari) mostly the water is obtained from the unsafe water sources like small tributaries and stagnant ponds even before flood a few hand pumps were in the villages and all of them are out of order.It was apparent that the communities have very limited utensils left, glasses were a few and there were no separate containers at the village level.

Oxfam Novib-ECHO Partnership

SAFWCO with the financial support of Oxfam Novib-ECHO is implementing (WASH) water, sanitation, and hygiene promotion project to help 17,000 Flood affected people.

Objectives of the Project:

Flood affected communities of Sindh province have increased access to WASH facilities, and taken action to protect themselves against threats to public health.

1-17,000 flood affected house hold have access to sufficient quantity of clean, potable water to meet emergency needs:

2- 17,000 flood affected household have access to sanitation facilities;

3- 17,000 flood affected families have access to basic hygiene items and NFIs and practice basic safe hygiene.

Major Activities:

Formation of Village Development committees in the targeted flood affected villages;

Selection of sites for the installation of WASH facilities;

Installation of 900 hand pumps in the selected villages of three targeted districts;

Construction of 800 latrine and 800 bathing facilities;

Distribution of 17,000 hygiene kits and 17,000 NFI kits;

Disseminate 2380 hygiene sessions.