ISLAMABAD: The European Union (EU) is offering €700,000 in humanitarian help to Pakistan after widespread flooding and landslides have brought on lack of lives and vital harm to individuals’s livelihood and key infrastructures throughout the nation.
The help will assist deal with the pressing wants of essentially the most weak communities in among the hardest-hit areas, significantly in Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Punjab, and Sindh, stated a press launch issued on Thursday.
Taheeni Thammannagoda, who oversees the EU’s humanitarian programmes in Pakistan stated, “The EU expresses heartfelt condolences to Pakistan for the lives misplaced within the exceptionally heavy monsoon rains, which have as soon as once more put the resilience of communities throughout the nation to the take a look at.
“The EU has made accessible funding to assist our humanitarian companions on the bottom reply and ship important lifesaving help to affected households,” he added.
The funding will likely be channelled via the Worldwide Organisation for Migration (IOM) and the Worldwide Federation of Crimson Cross and Crimson Crescent Societies (IFRC).
The emergency response will prioritise multi-sectoral help to assist essentially the most affected individuals meet their wants, resembling water and sanitation, momentary shelter and important reduction objects.
This comes on high of €11 million allotted by EU humanitarian help in 2024 for humanitarian assist and catastrophe preparedness in Pakistan.
