Hatian Community IDP Relief Efforts

A brief snapshot of IDP relief efforts in Hatian Village (30kms from Mardan, just off main Malakand road). In this union council there are 11 schools that have been converted into make-shift camps upon the Govts instructions. In all there are 1000 people in the main high school, while the total number of IDPs is estimated to be around 10,000. The local community has taken the lead in organising the school camps, housing people in their own houses and arranging for food. Until now they have not received ANY support from the Government or NGOs and have been functioning completely on self-help (or as they say aapni madad aap) basis. They told us that our contingent of relief goods (three small truckloads) is the first outside support that they had gotten until then.....

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• Pakistan
• IDP
• Swat
• Dir
• Buner
• Community
• Support