CHURCH WORLD SERVICE: EMERGENCY RESPONSE PROGRAM
Situation Report: Pakistan Flooding
August 20, 2008


SITUATION: Monsoon flooding this month in the Rajanpur district of the 
eastern Pakistan state of Punjab province has affected a large swath of 
territory - some 530,000 acres in all - in what is a predominately 
agricultural area. About half of the affected area is cultivated land 
used for agricultural production - the district's economic lifeblood. 
Affected crops include cotton, wheat and sugarcane.

The flooding has damaged or destroyed more than 10,000 homes, according 
to Church World Service Pakistan/Afghanistan and has disrupted the lives 
of some 375,547 people.

Flooding is adversely affecting access to safe drinking water, while 
resulting stagnant water is increasing the risk for malaria and diarrhea 
and skin diseases, CWS P/A reports.


RESPONSE: CWS-P/A staff members have conducted assessments of the 
affected area in the past two weeks and have concluded that needs 
include food packages, shelter, wheat seed, fertilizer, hand pumps and 
hygiene kits. A CWS appeal for this emergency is likely.

For further information about disasters to which Church World Service is 
responding please visit www.churchworldservice.org or call the CWS 
Hotline, (800) 297-1516.

CWS Emergency Response Program special contacts: (212) 870-3151

Program Director: dderr@churchworldservice.org
Domestic Response: bvollmering@churchworldservice.org

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