NOWSHERA, Pakistan: Makeshift camps have got sprung up throughout Pakistan – around schools, along motorways and at military assise – to give refuge to millions of out of place ton victims .
But the relief at finding stability can turn to desperation for a lot of.
In the northwestern town of Nowshera, a technical university was turned into a shelter for up to 2, five hundred flood victims, who all sweltered in the summer temperature with sporadic foods aid and bit access to water designed for bathing.
“We have been only eating rice for the past a few days, ” 60-year-old Malang Jan told AFP.
“I never thought that 1 day we will have to live like this. We have displaced our heaven so are now forced to survive a miserable life. ”
Jan’s children were rescued by boat when his or her home was immersed in the floods who have swamped a third in the country, killing beyond 1, 100 people today and affecting tens of millions more.
The college gardens will be lined with tents – the classes are filled with the holidaymakers who arrived earliest and grabbed the risk for privacy.
Others rest shoulder-to-shoulder in corridors using meagre bundles for belongings.