Humanity First Pakistan is working around the clock with the National Commission for Human Development (NCHD) in the north-west areas, and directly in Punjab and Sindh. HF has dispatched over 500 family tents, crates of blankets, boxes of household supplies including buckets, sheets and shoes, and a range of surgical supplies.


400 water survival boxes provided by Rotary charity WorldWaterWorks in the UK are being dispatched to various affected areas. Each Water-Survival Box contains water filtration as well as essential survival kits including tools, buckets, filters, sanitary kits, torches, and cutlery. These items help a family to re-establish themselves in temporary shelter when they have lost all of their possessions. The HFPK team is training villagers on the use of equipment in the boxes. Reports from the delivery team that went to Taru Jabba towards Peshawar suggested that flood marks could be seen to a height of 14 feet, and all of the local houses were turned to rubble.


Earlier, aid consignments were sent to Dera Ismail Khan, Taunsa, Dera Ghazi Khan, Pabbi and Muzaffargarh. The local team is also preparing packs of non-perishable food to last a month for displaced families. Two truck-loads of food rations for 400 families have already been distributed. HF PK is planning to provide weekly food parcels for 550 families (3,000 people approx) for the next 3 months in Punjab, Sindh and the north-west.

A team of HF doctors has also been active doing 3 medical camps each seeing on average 200 patients a day. The serious threat is the spread of cholera, malaria, diarrhea and other diseases such as dengue fever, measles, polio and scabies. Already 36,000 cases of diarrhea are reported, and this is backed-up by the experiences of our team. Our medical team is already treating minor injuries and illness, but we are planning to distribute malaria nets, water treatment kits and medical prevention kits.

The initial response package is for around 10,000 people, but the scale of the response is increasing. The rehabilitation phase will include deployment of water hand-pumps and secure shelter over the next 6 months.


The second consignment of 200 Water-Survival Boxes left our depot in Somerset on Friday 13th en route to Heathrow. On Saturday they were loaded onto a PIA (Pakistan International Airways) flight to Islamabad that was scheduled to arrive there that night.

The following e-mail was received this morning from Humanity First UK:


Attached are the latest two Operations Reports from Humanity First and photographs showing the first consignment of Water-Survival Boxes on arrival in Islamabad and as they were leaving for the first distributions – HF Operations Map below.


Given the logistical capability of Humanity First both in London and in Islamabad we have agreed to pack a further 200 WSBs for despatch next weekend, and for which sufficient funds are available.


Funding support received since 1 July amounts to some £42,000 (of which the bulk has been donated by Rotary Clubs specifically for the Pakistan Floods appeal). A non-Rotarian ‘friend of Chelwood Bridge Rotary’ made a personal donation of £3000 which he has gift-aided – a tremendous boost to my Club colleagues as we keep the production line going. To date 60 Rotary Clubs outside District 1200 (and 22 in D 1200) have forwarded donations – for which we are very grateful. By my reckoning that leaves about 1760 Clubs in RIBI we would love to hear from! Seriously, I am aware that many Clubs have been out raising funds over the past two weeks and more events are planned, but for those Clubs that have not yet dipped their toes in the Worldwaterworks water I hope you might yet be persuaded to give us your support too.

We are also indebted to the help of fellow District 1200 Rotarians from Chippenham, Bathavon, Bath West and Sherborne Castles for their physical help packing boxes last week. Tomorrow Inner Wheel teams fromDorchester and Wrington Vale (both in Rotary District 1200) will be packing with us.

It is likely that this emergency will continue for some weeks and Rotarians in Chelwood Bridge and District 1200 are standing by to respond. A further consignment of essential survival items has been ordered and should be delivered during next week. We will then be dependent on incoming funding to sustain this operation and to replenish our stock holding ready for the next emergency. As all the practical work and management of the project is carried out by unpaid Rotary and Inner Wheel volunteers every pound received is used to pay for the boxes, water-purification kits, the other contents, and the cost of air freight.


Yours in continuing Rotary humanitarian Service

Hugo Pike PHF
Chairman – Worldwaterworks Limited
PP – RC Chelwood Bridge, D 1200.