Articles

December 2010

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   Pakistan’s devastating floods: Rebuilding lives and livelihoods

   01 December 2010

   Sher Hassan watched helplessly through the driving rain as flood water approached his house. Horrified and panicking, and with little time to spare, the 24-year-old managed to take his elderly mother, five sisters and one younger brother to higher ground. Within an hour his home in the village of Masma was submerged under two metres of water.