2010 REDUX: 1,400 flood-hit people arrive in Karachi
Over 1,400 women and children arrived in relief camps set up by the revenue department in Malir and Gadap.
KARACHI:
Over 1,400 women and children arrived in relief camps set up by the revenue department in Malir and Gadap towns. The camps, official sources told APP, have been set up at Malir Town UC 4 in Khokhrapar where 95 families have been accomodated. “In all, 400 people have been given accomodation at the camp here,” said Mumtaz Ali, the deputy district officer (DDO) of Khokhrapar. Three camps have been set up at Gadap Town’s Civil hospital where 87 families with 496 members have been settled. Another 12 families were sent to the Manghopir Degree College and 700 people were given shelter at Abdullah Gabol Goth school in UC Konkar of Gadap Town. The people have mostly come from the flooded parts of Badin, Tando Bagho and Jhudo.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 23rd, 2011.
Over 1,400 women and children arrived in relief camps set up by the revenue department in Malir and Gadap towns. The camps, official sources told APP, have been set up at Malir Town UC 4 in Khokhrapar where 95 families have been accomodated. “In all, 400 people have been given accomodation at the camp here,” said Mumtaz Ali, the deputy district officer (DDO) of Khokhrapar. Three camps have been set up at Gadap Town’s Civil hospital where 87 families with 496 members have been settled. Another 12 families were sent to the Manghopir Degree College and 700 people were given shelter at Abdullah Gabol Goth school in UC Konkar of Gadap Town. The people have mostly come from the flooded parts of Badin, Tando Bagho and Jhudo.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 23rd, 2011.