Toronto Aid Org. Heads To Pakistan
Posted August 4, 2010 8:09 am.
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A Toronto aid organization is heading to Pakistan to help with the relief efforts.
Global Medic is bringing water purification equipment as well as other materials to the disaster zone.
“One of our big water systems can produce 100 litres a minute and we can run that 24 hours a day,” executive director Rahul Singh said.
“We can give clean water to 70,000 people a day,” he added.
The monsoon season has prompted the worst flooding in Pakistan in living memory, killing more than 1,500 as of Wednesday.
The flooding has destroyed homes, soaked crops and threatened even more lives. The waters have swept away farmland and devastated livestock in the country’s northwest, costing farmers millions of dollars and sparking demands for government compensation.
With files from The Associated Press and Getty Images.
Photos by Angus Grant who wrote…..”Massive flooding across Northern Pakistan has affected many of the communities located along the river valley systems. In places the water has risen 30 to 40 meters past its banks. Transportation and emergency aid to the affected areas is virtually impossible especially as large parts of the few roadways are now underwater.”
