Islamabad, Oct 7(ANI): The United Kingdom will provide emergency shelter and flood resistant homes to over 0.25 million people made homeless by this year's devastating floods in southern Pakistan, UK International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell has announced.
The announcement comes in response to the United Nations Pakistan Floods Rapid Response Plan 2011, the British High Commission said in a statement.
"UK support for people affected by the floods will continue not only over the coming weeks, but into 2012. This reflects the deep friendship and longstanding bond between the UK and Pakistan - our countries are closely tied through family, business, history and culture, and we will always stand by and support each other," Mitchell said.
The UK had already anticipated possible further flooding in Pakistan this year and over the last few months pre-positioned 5,000 family tents, 10,000 tarpaulin sheets, 35,000 thermal blankets, and tens of thousands of hygiene kits, water bottles, and other emergency items in 12 locations across Pakistan via the International Federation of the Red Cross (IFRC), the statement said, adding that these are all now being distributed to people who urgently need them across Sindh, southern Pakistan.
The UK is committed to being better prepared to deal with future disasters, and build up the resilience of local communities, in line with the Humanitarian Emergency Response Review (HERR), published by Lord Ashdown earlier this year, the statement said. (ANI)
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