Once again Pakistan is facing
critical challenges caused by Recent floods of 2011 triggered
by heavy monsoon rains in Sindh province of the country .According
to recent statistics , more than 350 are died among them 93 are
women and 83 are children while a population of 7 million more
is affected . according to the latest figures released by the
country's National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) the floods
caused damage to an area of 7.987 million acres of Sindh Province
and swept away standing crops in the whole affected areas of Badin,Sanghar,Nawab
Shah and Mirpur Khahs districts.
Floods have affected all the 23 districts of Sindh province and
completely damaged a total of 539,899 houses while another 848,412
houses have suffered partial damage.
More than 80,000 livestock have been washed away by flood waters
in Sindh while cotton, banana, dates, chili and sugarcane on 2,800,000
acres of land have been destroyed or affected. About 31,960 villages
have been badly affected by the floods.
An estimated 415,195 people are presently living in some 2,656
makeshift relief camps including schools and public buildings
across Sindh,
Some 5.74 million people in different districts of the province
have been affected by the floods and thousands of them are camped
out on higher ground and roadsides.
The UN-led humanitarian community in Pakistan is seeking 337 million
U.S. dollars from donor countries for an emergency response plan
to support the government in addressing the needs of flood-affected
families in Sindh .