BY Andy Leisinger | August 20 | 
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Responding to a true disaster
ONLY a fraction of the six million Pakistanis desperate for food and clean water have received help after the worst floods in decades killed up to 1600 people and left two million homeless.
The threat of waterborne diseases like cholera is a serious concern as children walk with their families through chest-high filthy water.
Fr Tom Rafferty, parish priest of Holy Name parish, Nowshera, told Aid to the Church in Need: “These floods have been the cause of great loss of life. Whole villages have been swept away and there has been massive damage to property and infrastructure.”
He added that there was an urgent need for medical supplies to curb outbreaks of malaria, dysentery, scabies and other skin rashes, typhoid, cholera and other potential health epidemics.
The SCO echoes the call for anyone who can help to dig deep and do so.
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