Pakistani Philanthropist Adopts 200 Flood Victims
- 14 years ago
A middle class man and a village elder in Pakistan has taken it upon himself to take care of several families -- around 200 people -- made homeless by the worst floods in the country's history.
Mohammad Ibrahim says he gathered flood victims from different villages while they were helpless and stranded in floodwaters.
Villagers are all offering help to victims who now live at Ibrahim's mansion in a small village at Fateh Pur in southern Punjab.
He says the government should step up its relief efforts.
[Mohammad Ibrahim, Village Elder]: (male, Seraiki)
"The government should extend help to these people. They have lost everything. Their houses have collapsed. They don't even have cots to sleep in, they are homeless. The government should make necessary arrangements because when they return home they don't find houses standing there. They will certainly need shelter."
Floods that began three weeks ago have forced more than four million people from their homes.
Most are living beside roads, many sleeping in the open with little food and no clean water.
Eight million people are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance.
About one third of Pakistan has been hit by the floods, with waters stretching tens of miles from rivers.
Mohammad Ibrahim says he gathered flood victims from different villages while they were helpless and stranded in floodwaters.
Villagers are all offering help to victims who now live at Ibrahim's mansion in a small village at Fateh Pur in southern Punjab.
He says the government should step up its relief efforts.
[Mohammad Ibrahim, Village Elder]: (male, Seraiki)
"The government should extend help to these people. They have lost everything. Their houses have collapsed. They don't even have cots to sleep in, they are homeless. The government should make necessary arrangements because when they return home they don't find houses standing there. They will certainly need shelter."
Floods that began three weeks ago have forced more than four million people from their homes.
Most are living beside roads, many sleeping in the open with little food and no clean water.
Eight million people are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance.
About one third of Pakistan has been hit by the floods, with waters stretching tens of miles from rivers.