Flood in Pakistan 2010 (part 5) - DONATE IN URGENCY

1. Pakistan's humanitarian situation critical The floods affected some 20 million people - They need our Help – PLEASE DONATE to Non-Governemental and non-extremist organisations

2. 24 August 2010 • Pakistan's humanitarian situation critical • Aid workers describe devastation from Pakistan floods • Thousands of people are sleeping on muddy roads • Hundreds of thousands are suffering from contagious illnesses • The statistics are devastating, but for aid workers witnessing the despair from the Pakistan flooding IS far more tragic than they imagined. • « You can see 8,000 to 10,000 people in Sukkur in the road, sleeping in the mud," said a volonteer, a resident of Karachi."All the people are sitting on the side of road, defecating there, drinking water there, living there.«  • Roughly 4 million people are homeless from mammoth flooding that covered much of Pakistan for three weeks. Hundreds of health facilities are damaged or destroyed. Millions are at risk for deadly waterborne diseases from the filthy flood waters. • Officials estimate the death toll between 1,500 and 1,600, but the numbers could skyrocket as water recedes and more bodies and animals surface. • The UN says it still needs about $200 million for aid. • They need our Help – Donate !

3. Some of your priotities can wait one month – These KIDS maybe will NO MORE be there in one month –make them your priorities – DONATE

5. A girl, who survived heavy floods, suffers from mosquito bites in a camp set up for displaced people in Nowshera, Pakistan on Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2010. Recovering from the devastating floods still battering Pakistan will take at least three years, the president said, as the waters swept south after leaving millions homeless and submerging millions of acres of farmland.(AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)

6. A child receives medical treatment at a local hospital in Pakistan's Muzaffargarh district of Punjab province Sunday. (Reinhard Krause / Reuters)

7. A Pakistani man affected by the floods holds his daughter, who suffers from diarrhoea, at a hospital in Sukkur on August 24, 2010. Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari warned his beleaguered nation could take years to recover from devastating floods as global pledges topped 700 million dollars and waters refused to relent. The near month-long floods have killed 1,500 people and affected up to 20 million nationwide in the country's worst ever natural disaster, with the threat of disease ever present in the camps sheltering desperate survivors. AFP PHOTO/ ASIF HASSAN (Photo credit should read ASIF HASSAN/AFP/Getty Images)

8. A boy uses an empty water container as a hat at a camp for people displaced by floods, Muzaffargarh district, Punjab province, Pakistan, Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2010. Pakistan's medical system has been badly hit by weeks of flooding, with hundreds of health facilities damaged and tens of thousands of medical workers displaced, the prime minister said as the country braced for the spread of disease. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

9. Tim Schwarz/CNN A child eats a meal at a refugee camp in Sukkur. The flooding has disrupted more than 20 million lives and left 1,500 dead.

10. Getty Images 10-month-old Ayesha receives treatment with her mother at a makeshift hospital in Muzaffargarh, Pakistan, on Sunday, August 22. More than 200 health facilities have been damaged or destroyed by flooding, according to the World Health Organization.

11. One and a half year old Mudasar, suffering from diarrhea, is consoled by his mother as receives treatment at the District Headquarters Hospital, Aug. 23, in Muzaffargarh in Punjab, Pakistan. The country's agricultural heartland has been devastated, with rice, corn and wheat crops destroyed by floods. Officials say as many as 20 million people have been affected during Pakistan's worst flooding in 80 years. (Daniel Berehulak / Getty Images)

12. A boy suffering from diarrhea and malnourishment waits to be treated in Sukkar, Pakistan, on Aug. 21

13. A Pakistani baby cries while being fed outside the Khan Ghar Rural Health Center, due to a lack of beds, in the flood affected Muzaffargarh district, Punjab province, Pakistan, Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2010. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

14. Pakistani flood survivor child who is suffering diarrhea, sleeps on a bed at a medical camp near Nowshera, Pakistan on Sunday, Aug. 22, 2010. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)

15. A Pakistani child is seen at a camp for people displaced by flooding in Nowshera, Pakistan, Friday, Aug. 20, 2010. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad) A flood survivor holds her child as she wade through the flooded area in Muzaffargarh, in central Pakistan on Thursday, Aug. 19, 2010. (AP Photo/Khalid Tanveer)

16. Pakistani flood survivors wait for medical help in a camp set up for displaced people in Nowshera, Pakistan on Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2010. Recovering from the devastating floods still battering Pakistan will take at least three years, the president said, as the waters swept south after leaving millions homeless and submerging millions of acres of farmland.(AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)

18. Pakistani flood survivor girl looks out from her makeshift tent set-up in the mid-section of a main highway in Camp Karoona near Peshawar, Pakistan on Sunday, Aug. 22, 2010. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)

23. PETER BIRO/The International Rescue Committee – Zubadia Razia, 20, walks through the mud and rubble that was once her home in the devastated Charsadda district. She is looking for a suitcase she kept clothes in, but it is nowhere to be found. Large areas were damaged when three rivers in the district -- the Jindi, Kabul and Swat -- overflowed.

24. PETER BIRO/The International Rescue Committee A boy and his young sister await the distribution of aid. The United Nations has warned that a shortage of aid money is threatening 6 million people, the majority of them children and infants, with potentially lethal diseases carried by contaminated water.

25. Sick Pakistani children and their mothers sit on a bench as they wait for their check up at the District Headquarters Hospital in flood affected Muzaffargarh district, Punjab province, Pakistan on Tuesday Aug. 24, 2010. Pakistan's medical system has been badly hit by weeks of flooding, with hundreds of health facilities damaged and tens of thousands of medical workers displaced, the prime minister said as the country braced for the spread of disease.(AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

26. Sick Pakistani children share a bed at the District Headquarters Hospital in flood affected Muzaffargarh district, Punjab province, Pakistan, Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2010. Pakistan's medical system has been badly hit by weeks of flooding, with hundreds of health facilities damaged and tens of thousands of medical workers displaced, the prime minister said Tuesday as the country braced for the spread of disease. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

27. PETER BIRO/The International Rescue Committee A woman's identification is verified at a relief distribution site.

28. PETER BIRO/The International Rescue Committee Once this emergency phase is over, the more difficult task of rebuilding shattered communities starts. "The situation is desperate," said Tammy Hasselfeld, the International Rescue Committee's Pakistan director. "It will take a very long time and increased support from the outside world to help people recover from this catastrophe."

29. AFP/Getty Images A doctor examines children and others suffering from flood-related illnesses such as diarrhea at a makeshift camp in Sukkur, Pakistan, on Tuesday.

30. AFP/Getty Images Evacuees hold empty bowls while waiting in line for food at a relief camp in Sukkur on Monday.

32. Tim Schwarz/CNN Pakistanis displaced by the floods use tents for shelter at a refugee camp in Sukkur. What once was a school is now a refugee camp for 2,000 people.

33. AFP/Getty Images A tent camp near Sukkur houses flood survivors

34. Pakistani flood-affected survivors stand in a queue to get relief food, at a makeshift camp, in Sukkur, on August 23, 2010. The near month-long floods have killed 1,500 people and affected up to 20 million nationwide in the country's worst natural disaster, with the threat of disease ever-present in the miserable camps sheltering penniless survivors. TOPSHOTS / AFP PHOTO / ASIF HASSAN (Photo credit should read ASIF HASSAN/AFP/Getty Images)

35. Pakistanis ride a motorcycle carrying goods at Muzaffargarh district, Punjab province, Pakistan, Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2010. Pakistan's medical system has been badly hit by weeks of flooding, with hundreds of health facilities damaged and tens of thousands of medical workers displaced, the prime minister said as the country braced for the spread of disease. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

36. Tractor trolleys with families cross a flooded highway in Baseera, in central Pakistan, Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2010. Pakistan's medical system has been badly hit by weeks of flooding, with hundreds of health facilities damaged and tens of thousands of medical workers displaced, the prime minister said Tuesday as the country braced for the spread of disease. (AP Photo/Khalid Tanveer)

37. A Pakistani boy is carried by a relative as they disembark from a helicopter after being evacuated by the Pakistan Army from the village Quba Saed Khan due to quickly rising flood waters near Shadad Kot, Sindh province, southern Pakistan Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2010. The Pakistan Army evacuated dozens of residents, who said they had mostly run out of food and water, from the village to prevent them from being stranded. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)

38. Tents are seen from the air at a camp set up by the Pakistan Army for thousands of Pakistanis displaced by flood waters in Sukkar, Sindh province, southern Pakistan Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2010. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)

39. PETER BIRO/The International Rescue Committee More than 1,400 people have been killed and a staggering 20 million people have been affected by devastating monsoon rains in Pakistan. Entire villages, roads, bridges and millions of hectares of crops have been washed away by the ongoing deluge.

40. PETER BIRO/The International Rescue Committee A refugee from Afghanistan sits amid the rubble that was formerly his home in the Azakhel camp near the city of Peshawar in Nowshera district, Khyber Pakthunkhwa province. The entire camp, which housed about 30,000 people, was crushed by water when the nearby Kabul River bursts its dams.

41. PETER BIRO/The International Rescue Committee – Almost all the mud houses at Azakhel camp have been turned into clay mounds and twisted debris.

42. PETER BIRO/The International Rescue Committee – The Afghan refugees have lived at Azakhel for decades after fleeing Soviet occupation and civil war. Now they have once again been forced to flee. Most live nearby, in tents by the side of a busy highway.

43. PETER BIRO/The International Rescue Committee – Allah Jan, right, from Azakhel has squatted under a tarpaulin for more than two weeks. "The clothes I wear are all that I own," she said. "The local people here help me with some food, but that is all."

44. PETER BIRO/The International Rescue Committee In an empty school nearby, desperate villagers await aid distribution by the International Rescue Committee aid group.

45. PETER BIRO/The International Rescue Committee Hygiene supplies are offloaded to hundreds of stranded people in Charsadda. As a first step to thwart the spread of disease, the International Rescue Committee distributes water purification tablets. The next step will be to bring clean water via tanker trucks to the devastated communities.

46. PETER BIRO/The International Rescue Committee Flood victims queue up to receive hygiene supplies. The lack of soap, chlorine tablets and disinfectants, coupled with contaminated water and the lack of latrines, poses a serious health risk. Diarrhea and skin disease have already started to spread with at least one confirmed case of cholera in northwestern Pakistan.

47. A Pakistani flood survivor rebuilds his house destroyed by floodwater in Nowshera, Pakistan on Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2010. Recovering from the devastating floods still battering Pakistan will take at least three years, the president said, as the waters swept south after leaving millions homeless and submerging millions of acres of farmland.(AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)

48. Pakistani flood-affected youth stand in a flooded house in the Kamria village in the Sindh province, on August 23, 2010. The near month-long floods have killed 1,500 people and affected up to 20 million nationwide in the country's worst natural disaster, with the threat of disease ever-present in the miserable camps sheltering penniless survivors. TOPSHOTS / AFP PHOTO / RIZWAN TABASSUM (Photo credit should read RIZWAN TABASSUM/AFP/Getty Images)

49. Pakistani men push a motorcycle on rubber floats as a police boat passes by along a flooded road in Baseera, Punjab province, Pakistan on Monday Aug. 23, 2010. Workers piled stones and sandbags to plug leaks in a levee protecting a pair of southern Pakistani cities, as the floods that have destroyed homes, farmland and livelihoods moved slowly toward the sea. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

50. AFP/Getty Images Workers in Haji Khamiso village in southern Pakistan pile sandbags along a riverbank Monday, August 23, to keep flooding at bay.