SOUTH TANGERANG — Dompet Dhuafa through the Disaster Management Center (DMC), sent an advance team on Friday (07/10/2022), to help accelerate the handling of flash flood disasters in Pakistan.
The team, consisting of the program division and communication division of Dompet Dhuafa, will help deal with the flood disaster in Pakistan. Start from escorting basic food assistance to interventions in the recovery phase assistance in the form of construction of temporary and permanent housing.
“This morning, we also took our friends to Soekarno-Hatta airport. Please pray from all friends, for the smoothness and blessings of this humanitarian mission to distribute the mandate of assistance there,” explained Eka Suwandi as Corporate Secretary Manager of DMC Dompet Dhuafa.
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Head of DMC Dompet Dhuafa Haryo Mojopahit said that through the Network of Forum Zakat (FoZ) and Humanitarian Forum Indonesia (HFI), DMC Dompet Dhuafa received a mandate to fly to the affected areas of Pakistan.
“Through the FOZ and HFI networks, we sent a response-recovery force and communication team to help deal with flash floods in Pakistan,” explained Haryo Mojopahit as Chief Executive of DMC Dompet Dhuafa.
Haryo also added that Dompet Dhuafa is one of the institutions that support the Indonesian government in assisting and fostering bilateral relations between the Indonesian state and Pakistan in the response to this flash flood.
“Dompet Dhuafa is one of the institutions or NGOs trusted by the government to help distribute aid to Pakistan. Dompet Dhuafa has 3 (three) stages of aid distribution. A few days ago, we actually distributed assistance in the form of logistics through local agency partners there. This time with the Indonesian government, and next we will build some pre-facilities there, such as housing, mosques/musholla, and others,” he explained.
According to the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), between June 14 and September 28 more than 1,600 people were killed and more than 12,800 people were injured as a result of heavy rains and flooding, including 333 women and 615 children killed and 3,452 women and 4,006 children injured. A third of all recorded deaths and injuries were children, while nearly half of all deaths and 66 percent of all injuries were recorded in Sindh. Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa each reported about 19 percent of all recorded deaths, while Punjab reported 30 percent of all injuries.
About 33 million people were affected by heavy rains and flooding, including at least 7.9 million displaced, of whom about 598,000 living in relief camps. Nearly 800,000 refugees are estimated to be housed in more than 40 disaster-affected districts, including more than 175,600 women, 194,000 girls, and 206,000 boys. Two districts house almost half of this refugee population – Peshawar in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Quetta in Balochistan.
More than 2 million homes were affected, comprising more than 767,000 homes destroyed and nearly 1.3 million damaged. Eighty-nine percent of them were in Sindh, where more than 683,000 houses were destroyed and more than 1.1 million houses were damaged. Sindh also owns 64 percent of the more than 13,000 kilometers of roads and 40 percent of the 410 bridges damaged or destroyed across the country.
The damage to public infrastructure was the next highest in Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, with Balochistan inflicting 17 percent of the total recorded road damage and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa recording 12 percent of all road damage and 26 percent of all damaged and destroyed bridges.
This impact on critical transport infrastructure has hampered the ability of people who want to move from reaching safer areas, as well as hindering access to markets and services and the delivery of aid to people in need. (Dompet Dhuafa / DMC)