ISLAMABAD: The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSRelief), a Saudi-based international aid agency, has completed a food distribution project in Pakistan’s flood-affected Gilgit Baltistan region, the orgaization said on Monday.
In July, a Glacial Lake Outburst Flood (GLOF) arose in Badswat valley, north of Ghizer district in Gilgit Baltistan, resulting in a surge in water flow in the Ishkoman River, which badly affected roads linking the area and other parts of Ghizer district and the rest of Gilgit-Baltistan.
According to Pakistan’s National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), from July 1 to August 22, six people including two women and one child died in rains and flood related incidents in GB.
Since then, KSRelief has been distributing food bags in the area in collaboration with the NDMA.
“The project benefited about 7,000 individual living in four totally cutoff villages,” a KSRelief statement said.
Food bags donated by SaudiArabia’s King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center for flood affectees are being distributed in Gilgit Baltistan, Pakistan, on August 23, 2021. (Photo courtesy: KSRelief)
One thousand food bags were distributed among affected people. “Each bag contained flour bag of 20kg, rice bag of 5 kg, cooking oil of 5 liters, 5kg of sugar, 5kg of Daal Channa, and 950 grams of black tea,” the statement read.
Pakistan is the fifth-largest recipient of aid from KSRelief and has received $117.6 million in aid since 2005, according to a report published by the organization in 2019.
According to that report, KSRelief has completed 84 projects in Pakistan in the fields of education, health care, water, sanitation, hygiene, emergency camps and community support that have cost roughly $100 million in the last 14 years. It has also completed 22 food security projects in the country during the same period.
