Thread by @BritishRedCross

🚨 How are Red Cross teams helping on the ground in #Pakistan? 🚨

Read through to learn more about our response to the flooding ⬇️

The Red Cross Red Crescent movement is made up of national societies in every country - so when crisis strikes, local teams can respond straight away. Right now, Pakistan Red Crescent staff and volunteers are providing vital assistance to people across the country. ⬇

Teams are supporting 30,000 households across 15 districts with financial assistance, as well as supplying emergency shelter to families whose homes have been destroyed 🤝 ⬇

They’re also delivering first aid and health care services through trained teams of medical staff, including providing free medicines and treatment for waterborne diseases like cholera and diarrhoea. ⬇

And crucially they’re providing access to clean water, sanitation and hygiene by installing water treatment plants in 6 districts, that have the capacity to produce 24,000 - 30,000 litres of clean drinking water per day as well as distributing 2,300 hygiene kits in 9 districts ⬇

Longer term, @PRC_official aims to help the affected population to recover their livelihoods through providing livestock, business support grants, and agricultural inputs 🌱 ⬇

The @ifrc are also supporting the local response and have released over £400,000 from their Disaster Relief Fund to provide immediate help.

All money donated to the @DEC appeal is going to support this response. Donate now: bit.ly/PakistanFloods…

#PakistanFloodsAppeal