ISLAMABAD: The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) has dispatched emergency relief goods to Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province that has been badly affected by torrential monsoon rains and flash floods, the Saudi aid agency said on Friday.
At least 186 persons have died in different rain-related incidents across Pakistan since mid-June, according to the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA). Balochistan has reported the highest 69 fatalities.
To provide relief to the flood-affected people, KSrelief has dispatched trucks carrying 285 tons of essential food items to Balochistan.
“Food packages will help flood affected people living in 6 districts of Baluchistan (Lesbela, Khuzdar, Quetta, Pishin, Killa Saifullah, Killa Abdullah),” the Saudi aid agency said in a statement.
This photo shows a KS Relief truck in Balochistan on July 15, 2022. (@KSRelief)
“Each food package comprises all necessary essential food items; weighted 95 kg (contains 80kg of flour, cooking oil of 5 liters, 5kg of Sugar, 5kg of Daal Chana), which is sufficient for the family for the whole month.”
These food bags would be distributed in collaboration with the NDMA and the Balochistan government and the aid would benefit more than 21,000 people in the province, it added.
“This project comes under the umbrella of humanitarian projects by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, represented by the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center to assist affected families living in Pakistan,” the statement read.
Pakistani and Saudi officials pictured in front of a KS Relief truck in Balochistan on July 15, 2022. (@KSRelief)
With one of the largest humanitarian aid budgets in the world, KSrelief has been working in 44 countries. Pakistan is the fifth biggest beneficiary of the organization’s aid money and humanitarian operations after Yemen, Palestine, Syria and Somalia.
