Ahmed Sohail, HelpAge Logistics Officer with Kareem Ullah, 71 immediately following the floods in Pakistan.
HelpAge Provides Relief to Victims of Pakistan Flood
HelpAge USA estimates that up to 200,000 older people have been affected by Pakistan’s worst floods in 80 years.
The figure for those who have died in the monsoon floods has now risen to 1,600 and estimates of those affected are currently 13 million and rising.
Flood waters have washed away thousands of acres of crops, government buildings, schools, clinics, markets, bridges, railway tracks and homes.
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