NetworkNewsToday: 11 February 2011 -- UNICEF: Pakistan - Six months after the deluge, the waters may have subsided but the impact of this disaster has not and UNICEF is working to ensure that the children who've had their first taste of school, maintain their education; and the onset of winter means the agency must work hard to keep children and families warm, especially in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa where snow has begun to fall. Helicopters have been flying essential supplies, such as warm clothing, children's shoes, blankets and newborn kits, to the most vulnerable villages. The children of Pakistan have survived an apocalyptic flood, but now they are risk from the cold. SOUNDBITE (Pashto) Shireen Zeba, mother:
"Happiness is happiness. Happiness is not in our destiny. I will cry to God and ask his help. I hope he answers my prayers; what else can I do" SOUNDBITE (Pashto) Mehnaz, 10 years old:
"The wall fell on her and I saw her die in front of me" SOUNDBITE (Pashto) Shireen Zeba, mother:
"All I can do is cry. She left me, what will I do without her" SOUNDBITE (Pashto) Mehnaz, 10 years old:
" I miss her because she used to play with me" SOUNDBITE (English) Shandana Aurangzeb, UNICEF Peshawar:
" People are worried, they are very worried about where they are going to go because they don't have anything to go back to, all their household belongings are gone, their livelihood is gone and they don't have any means to set up a new life SOUNDBITE (English) Waseem Ul Haq, Water Specialist Punjab Province, UNICEF:
"The people are reluctant to use the ground water but unfortunately they don't have any alternate; so that's the reason they're using this contaminated water. And UNICEF is providing the hand pumps the effective hand pumps which can go deep up to 300 feet and that's like, we are trying our level best to provide safe drinking water to the affected communities." SOUNDBITE (Sindhi) Islam Gulzar, mother:
"We've lost everything. I'm worried because I've no home. This place is cold, we need a roof over our heads." SOUNDBITE (Sindhi) Sajjad Shoro, 17 years old:
"I had big dreams. I wanted to get an education. I wanted to get a job. I wanted to see the children in my village educated I wanted to see the village prosper. But the floods came and drowned all our dreams." SOUNDBITE (Sindhi) Nazira, 9 years old:
"Living in a tent is extremely difficult. Waking up in the morning, sleeping at night is very uncomfortable as it is very cold." SOUNDBITE (Sindhi) Zohra Bashir, mother:
"We need rations, shelter and clothes. We have nothing. Our house and everything in it was washed away. We need everything, everything a human being needs to survive." SOUNDBITE (Sindhi), Mukhtiar Ali, 12 years old:
"If I went to school, I would study and I would get a good job. I want to be a doctor." SOUNDBITE (Sindhi), Malika, 13 years old:
"Because of the floods we lost everything we lost our homes, if we had a school we would be so happy" SOUNDBITE (Sindhi) Banu Ali, 14 years old:
"We don't have a school. No one ever built one here. This is the first time we've had a teacher. I want to study, so I can become a police inspector. Then I will catch people who rob and gamble and put them in jail."
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