CARE staff distribute relief supplied in Pakistan's Swat Valley. © CARE.

In July 2010 CARE launched an appeal to raise over £16.8 million to assist the survivors of the worst flooding in Pakistan’s history.

With 16 million people affected, this is a humanitarian disaster of enormous proportions.

A CARE staff member in Pakistan recounts the devastation he witnessed:

"The sound of the water gushing, wood cracking and, amongst the havoc, people leaving everything that they had worked so hard for, running, saving their very lives. I saw how the fathers were trying to keep their young ones safe, hauling them on their shoulders, how mothers, not caring for their own security, were protecting their children. I saw the landslide wipe away homes, and bury them in mud, the water not caring who and what it took with its force."

CARE co-ordinated mobile health clinics and basic healthcare units have provided much-needed health services to around 12,000 people.

CARE is continuing to work in the recovery phase in Pakistan, working with communities on long term shelter provision, restoring damaged water systems and educating people on hygiene practices that will make them less susceptible to disease.

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