Feature articles
2010
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Pakistan’s devastating floods – rebuilding lives and livelihoods
22 October 2010
By Saifullah Chaudhry, Senior Programme Officer, ILO Country Office for Pakistan. (Peshawar, Pakistan) 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 bother to higher ground.