Resilient despite losing her home, 13 year old Lali Kaur, seen here with her cousin, holds her baby sister outside their family’s temporary shelter on the main road in Shikarpur District in Sindh Province. Torrential rains have devastated communities in some of the most poverty-stricken districts of Pakistan.
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Eight year old Fahimada carries a small container of water, collected from a nearby handpump, through flooded land back to her tent shelter. UNICEF provides clean, safe drinking water for displaced families affected by the floods.
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Lal Khatoon and her six year old granddaughter, Razia, collect water at a handpump in a flooded area of Ghulam Qadir Village in Shikarpur District in Sindh Province. Over one million acres of land have been affected by floods causing many water sources to become contaminated.UNICEF supplies water purification tablets to help ensure children have access to clean water.
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Women make 'roti', a traditional flatbread, beside flood waters, near Abdul Aziz Jatoi Village in Sindh Province. Many displaced families have been forced to set up temporary shelter in the region.
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Health Worker Bushra Arain speaks with flood-affected women and children about their health needs, in Ghulam Qadir Village in Shikarpur District in Sindh Province. UNICEF helps provide information for those affected by flooding and displacement.
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A child receives a dose of oral polio vaccine from a health worker who is being assisted by Mai Sumbal, an elderly woman from the community, in flood-affected Sono Solangi Village in Kharpur District, in Sindh Province. Pakistan is one of just three polio-endemic countries, with Afghanistan and Nigeria, remaining in the world and presently has the world’s highest number of new polio cases.
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A woman carries a bucket filled with safe water that she was given during a water distribution from a UNICEF tanker-truck, on the Jamali Bypass, the main highway in Jacobabad District, in Sindh Province.
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A girl held by her mother receives a dose of oral polio vaccine from a health worker, at the family’s home in Labano Village in Khairpur District in Sindh Province.Health workers are vaccinating all children under age five in the village.
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Farzana holds her 6 month old daughter, Umama, while sitting in the open air on a traditional bed called a ‘charpai’ in a flooded area in Jacobabad District in Sindh Province.
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