Pakistanis Struggle to Rebuild Lives After Worst Floods

NTDTelevision 2010-09-06

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A month after Pakistan's worst natural disaster, many have lost almost everything they owned.

In one village, 25 miles east of Multan in southern Punjab, locals say the government has done nothing to help them.

[Mohammed Saleem, Villager]:
"They are setting up tents. They are giving it out to others but not us. We have fixed our same old tent that we had with us already. Nobody has extended help to us. What we have we had. We are doing everything on our own."

[Bushra, Village Woman]:
"My dowry and everything else was swept away by floods. There is nothing left with us. I could only save my children."

Authorities are struggling to provide relief to millions of flood victims.

But help came too late to save two of Ramazan's young children, whose lives were claimed by diarrhea.

[Mohammad Ramazan, Villager]:
"At this point we have nothing. I have nothing to give to my children. I used to earn for them. Aid is coming, but I have nothing."

Although the floodwaters are beginning to recede, large areas are still submerged in water.

Some villages in the southern province of Sindh are affected by floods for the first time, as the swollen Indus River flows south to the Arabian Sea.

Floods have forced at least 6 million from their homes and killed more than 1,600 people.

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