Pakistan Flood Update

New Update on September 18 2010 UN Seeking help for "largest disaster appeal ever"
here

Updated by BBC/UN September 14-15 2010

SINDH AREA ALONE(As of 14 Sept. 2010)

At a glance:

* An estimated 7 million people are affected.
* 7,277 villages are affected.
* 1,098,720 houses are damaged.
* 199 deaths and 1,072 injuries are reported.

Breakdown of population affected by floods:

Khairpur: 345,900
Thatta: 878,000
Jamshoro: 250,000
Dadu: 980,000
Ghotki: 132,000
Sukkur: 247,913
Nawabshah: 78,000
Qambar Shahdad kot: 980,500
Kashmore: 615000
Naushahro Feroze: 148,000
Jaccobabad: 892,500
Shikarpur: 778,000
Larkana: 490,000
Matiari: 45,600
Tando Muhammad Khan: 36,578


Map and statistics are from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)

Hyderabad: 90,500

Punjab (As of 15 Sept. 2010)

Breakdown of population affected by floods:

Bhakkar: 27,866
D. G. Khan: 513,390
Khushab: 359,167
Layyah: 405,258
Mianwali: 705,580
Multan: 154,092
Muzaffargarh: 1,044,759
Rahim Yar Khan: 232,648
Rajanpur: 1,506,361
Jhang: 337,914

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (As of 15 Sept. 2010)

At a glance:

* An estimated 3.8 million persons affected.
* Over 200,000 homes destroyed or damaged; an estimated 786 schools used as shelters.

Breakdown of population affected by floods:

Bannu: 62,255
Batagram:11,904
Buner: 6,416
Charsadda: 574,550
Chitral: 79,044
D. I. Khan: 450,981
Hangu: 52,390
Haripur: 64,738
Karak: 58,211
Kohat: 44,247
Kohistan: 530,666
Lakki Marwat: 32,105
Lower Dir: 206,498
Malakand: 51,527
Mansehra: 26, 138
Mardan: 22,848
Nowshera: 71,221
Peshawar: 270,935
Shangla: 95,599
Swabi: 17,587
Swat: 725,319
Tank: 170,160
Upper Dir: 240,570

Source(s):

* United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
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MORE related GO here with RECENT Flood DIARY here and OCHA report here

PLZ be sure to come back to this site for WAYS to HELP internationally via the above effort as well as others who are aiding most directly the Pakistanis especially affected by the flooding (and remember, of course these floods affect everyone in Pakistan and are much worse than Haiti, Tsunami and more recent disasters put together. Some estimate that from 1/3 to 1/2 of all Pakistanis are in some ways homeless...) The Edhi Foundation is certainly the group that comes up most often as far as working via highly known and respected outreach as well as through people who know Pakistan well.

Be sure to read the excellent Comment below...and placed as post just under this same 'flood updating' on nomorecrusades.blogspot.com