NOWSHERA DISTRICT IN MEDIA

NOWSHERA: Children rush after the relief van trundling down what is left of the washed away roads of village Dairikhel in the city of Kalan, district Nowshera. In better times children used to chase ice cream trucks, but deprived of everything, food has become the biggest blessing for them. Read the rest of this entry »

NOWSHERA/MUZAFFARGARH: Classrooms have become homes, school bus drivers have become relief good distributors and staff offices have become storage rooms. The Citizens Foundation (TCF), with 660 schools across the country, has mobilised its staff in flood-affected areas to distribute relief goods. Read the rest of this entry »

Los Angeles, CA, September 1, 2010

Following monsoon rains that have unleashed the worst flooding in Pakistan in 80 years, International Medical Corps continues to support displaced people through 26 mobile medical teams serving the hardest hit areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province (KPK) in the northwest. Read the rest of this entry »

WAM Islamabad, Sep 01st, 2010 (WAM) — The medical team sent by the UAE Red Crescent Authority (RCA) has started its drive to vaccinate the inhabitants of Nowshera city, which was worst hit by the recent floods. The vaccination campaign implemented in cooperation with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) aims to immunize children against measles and women in childbearing age against tetanus. Read the rest of this entry »

ISLAMABAD: ILO has launched Cash for Work programme for flood-affected people in Nowshera & Peshawar ILO has started helping the flood-affected communities in quickly restarting livelihoods and employment through immediate short-term employment recovery programmes. Read the rest of this entry »

THEY ALREADY fled their homes once, leaving behind Afghanistan’s war for the safety of Pakistan.

Now thousands of Afghan refugees fear they will have to move on once again as property developers eye their camps, where homes have been reduced to splinters and rubble by Pakistan’s floods. Read the rest of this entry »

ISLAMABAD: As donations for flood-victims continue to trickle in from all over Pakistan, the denizens of the twin cities have not forgotten their social responsibility. People in small groups have been working hard to collect donations and to ensure that these donations find their way to deserving people. Read the rest of this entry »

PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) cabinet has suspended 336 new schemes of the Annual Development Programme (ADP), which were to be undertaken in the current fiscal year and shifted Rs 17 billion, earmarked for these schemes, to the fund set up for flood-stricken people across the province. Read the rest of this entry »

By ASIF SHAHZAD, The Associated Press, Sunday, August 29, 2010; 8:28 PM

PABBI, Pakistan — Five-year-old Shahid Khan struggled to remain conscious in his hospital bed as severe diarrhea threatened to kill him. His father watched helplessly, stricken at the thought of losing his son – one of the only things the floods had not already taken. Read the rest of this entry »

WAM Islamabad, 29th Aug. 2010 (WAM) — Starting from today and till the end of the holy month of Ramadan, Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Nowshera will get hot iftar meals from the UAE Red Crescent Authority. Read the rest of this entry »