"Worlds Largest
Internally Displaced Community
Needs our Care"
Internally Displaced Community
Needs our Care"
The Pakistan Army has recently launched an operation against Taliban militants to secure the land that they are occupying in area called Swat in the Northern part of Pakistan. Due to this operation, people from the Swat, Bonir, Malakand and Mangora Districts have fled to safe havens. There are now an estimated Nearly 3 MILLION people living in the cities of Peshawar, Mardan, Charsada and several others. The government, in order to accommodate these refugees, has established many camps; where hundreds of thousands are temporarily residing in filthy conditions, waiting for support to meet their daily basic needs.
We had visited the camps in Mardan to seek opportunities to help and to asses the needs and possibilities to meet their immediate needs by providing relief.
They were able to visit four different camps. Two of those camps are established by a Church in Mardan where only Christian refugees are placed. Here are details of the camps visited by the team:
1) C.V.T.C: Christian VocationalTraining Center Mardan: Forty 40 Christian families, around 200 people, are placed in this camp.
2) Sarhadi Church Camp Mardan: 35 families, around 250 people are placed in this camp situated in church’s property.
3) Sheikh Yaseen Camp Mardan: There are 1,907 families (12,576 individuals are registered in this camp.
4) Sheikh Shazad town Charsada Road, Mardan: There are 1,354 families, 8,079 individuals, are registered in it.
These people are displaced due to war and ran from their houses to these camps, when forces lifted the curfew in the region. We can assist them through food items,clean drinking water, beds, bed sheets, blankets,
