Rebuilding lives after flooding in Pakistan
Business Daily
BBC
4.4 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2022
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Many communities in Pakistan were completely destroyed when vast areas of the country were hit by catastrophic flooding this summer. 33 million people were affected and in this episode of Business Daily we hear from three of them. Bilawal, Sassi and Abdul Majeed all lost everything in the floods and are now trying to rebuild their lives. We also hear from the charities and business leaders attempting to help rebuild communities, including Jemima Goldsmith, former wife of the former Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan and current UK ambassador for UNICEF.
Presenter / producer: Emb Hashmi
Image: Flood-hit families in Sindh province, Pakistan October 2022; Credit: Getty
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| 0:22.1 | Find out more at the end of this podcast. |
| 0:31.6 | Hi, I'm M Hashmi and welcome to Business Daily on the BBC. |
| 0:36.2 | Following the most severe flooding in Pakistan's recent history, |
| 0:39.7 | the amount of money that is needed to repair the damage has increased immensely. |
| 0:45.9 | We've been looking at what life is like for three people affected by the floods that ripped through Pakistan in August. |
| 0:53.0 | We are poor people who live beside Riverbanks. |
| 0:56.0 | We will hear more from Pakistan flood victims like a Ladino, you just heard from, and Mother of Forsasi. |
| 1:03.0 | There is no way we can earn anything. The entire landscape is flooded. We are starving. |
| 1:10.0 | Even though the flood water level is increasing, but we cannot leave |
| 1:14.8 | our land. If we leave, then someone will grab this land. Therefore, we are here. |
| 1:36.4 | 25th of August 2022, the 5th of August 222, the floods were so bad that the government of Pakistan declared a state of emergency, |
| 1:41.6 | devastating the lives of many millions by washing away roads, homes and crops. |
| 1:46.2 | The United Nations has increased its aid appeal for Pakistan to $816 million. It's really hard to get a gauge on the actual numbers because, you know, |
| 1:53.8 | they vary so much. But it's an unprecedentedly terrible catastrophe with, you know, |
| 2:03.5 | the Environment Minister estimated that a third of the country was underwater, 33 million people affected. |
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