Floods in Pakistan and northern India
All children, co-workers and facilities of SOS Children's Villages in Pakistan and northern India are unaffected by the devastating floods in the region. SOS Children's Villages Pakistan has offered its assistance to the government with focus on temporary shelter for unaccompanied children.
Flooding in Pakistan
All SOS children, staff and project facilities in Pakistan and northern India have so far been unaffected by the devastating floods in the region. In response to this catastrophe, SOS Children's Villages Pakistan has offered its assistance to the Government with a focus on offering temporary shelter to unaccompanied children.
According to Souriya Anwar, President of SOS Children's Villages Pakistan, SOS project facilities are a fair distance away from the disaster areas and therefore SOS Children's resources are limited in being able to provide Emergency Relief Programme on a large scale. Nevertheless, SOS Children's Villages Pakistan has offered assistance to the Government. Unaccompanied children will be able to take refuge at any of the eight SOS Children's Villages in the country and will receive any help they need.As well as the eight SOS Children's Villages in the country, SOS Children's Villages Pakistan operates many other social programmes and is already helping orphans and vulnerable children in many of the affected areas. SOS staff are monitoring the developing situation carefully, and are ready to help children who have lost contact to their families.
SOS Children has a strong history of providing Emergency Relief for disaster areas. In 2005, after the Kashmir earthquake, an Emergency Relief Programme was launched, providing aid to children and families across the affected area.
No communication with SOS Children's Village Leh-Ladakh
The Tibetan SOS Children's Village and school in Dharamsala are so far unaffected by the floods, although according to our staff the community has suffered heavily. Due to broken telephone lines we are not able to get into contact with the SOS Children's Village in Leh-Ladakh directly.
The SOS project facilities and families at Srinagar in the north of India are also safe and sound. There is so far no threat of floods in Srinagar but the city has completely shut down - schools, shops, offices etc. due to the implementation of a curfew following serious political instability. The children are safely inside the Village and we will keep you updated with any developments.
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