Monitoring Desk
ISLAMABAD/NEW YORK: The United Nations has once again appealed to the world to come forward to help flood-affected people of Pakistan as the winter season has set in.
UN spokesperson
United Nations spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said that with the arrival of winter, the humanitarian needs of the flood-hit people have increased and more aids were urgently needed to respond to the critical situation.
During a regular briefing in New York, Dujarric said that even as flood waters have receded, more than 20 million people still continue to depend on humanitarian aids, as the rehabilitation of flood victims has been expedited.
Sharing the data, he said that their humanitarian partners have reached more than 4.7 million people with aid including food assistance to 2.6 million since the floods hid several areas of Pakistan.
He said their global partners also helped 125,000 children to resume their education by establishing more than 500 temporary learning centers. He said that schools still remained inaccessible to more than two million children.
The UN spokesman said that more resources and aids were urgently needed noting that so far only 23 per cent of the $816 million pledged by the world countries for flood victims have been received.
