ISLAMABAD: Saudi Arabia’s King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre (KSrelief) has distributed 4,659 shelter bags to flood-affected families in various areas of Pakistan’s northwestern and eastern provinces, the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported on Tuesday.
The humanitarian aid distributed in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab provinces benefited 32,138 individuals from the most vulnerable groups affected by floods.
The initiative is part of the fourth phase of a project aimed at distributing 15,000 shelters and winter bags across Pakistan in 2025.
This programme is an extension of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s ongoing humanitarian and relief efforts, implemented through KSrelief, to support vulnerable communities and ease the suffering of affected populations around the world.
KSrelief is one of the largest humanitarian organisations in the world and has implemented numerous projects in Pakistan.
These projects focus on food security, health care, shelter, education, and disaster response, further strengthening the bonds of friendship between Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.
A recent report by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) says nearly seven million people have been displaced across Pakistan in this year’s monsoon floods, with Punjab the worst-affected province, followed by Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Sindh, and Gilgit-Baltistan.
The report estimates that 4.7 million people in Punjab alone have been impacted, where swollen rivers inundated vast tracts of farmland, displacing more than 2.7 million people and damaging over 2.5 million acres of crops.
In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, at least 1.6 million people were affected, while Sindh reported 185,000 cases and Gilgit-Baltistan more than 350,000.
