Pakistan Floods - Canadian Red Cross Society 2011

5 January 2011 - Pakistan recently experienced the worst monsoon flooding in its history. At its height over 20 million people were affected and over 7 million people were made homeless by the flooding. While most of the flood-affected people have returned to their home areas approximately 14 million people still require humanitarian assistance to meet their basic needs and to begin the process of resuming their normal lives. CIDA is supporting the Canadian Red Cross Society (CRCS) to provide emergency shelter materials (shelter kits tents and tarpaulins) to 45 000 households who have lost their homes as a result of the floods. CRCS is also providing 55 000 flood-affected poor farming households with agricultural inputs (seeds tools and technical knowledge) to enable them to resume their livelihoods. CRCS is working with the Pakistan Red Crescent Society and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies to implement this project.