3500 familes get shelter at Johi, District Dadu

Inundated Govt. Primary School at Johi under 12 feet flood water

Johi of District Dadu Sindh, Pakistan stands tall among survivors of floods 2010 by saving headquarter town Johi and adjacent villages inside flood protection ring. Still 8 to 10 feet water showed no mercy to villages it could get to. 40000 houses were either completely destroyed or badly damaged that could not be repairs. Large population still lives there in tents and under open sky.

Understanding the severity of the floods, and its impact on community, Care International in Pakistan decided to provide shelter kits to most vulnerable groups on sphere standards

by defining selection criteria of beneficiaries. Under project scope about 250 villages were mapped using UC mapping exercise and their GPS coordinates were recorded whereas 210 villages were finally selected for interventions based on their vulnerability.



A widow with her children at a village without home

UC Bahawalpur was the largest UC with 1026 beneficiaries whereas UC Pat Gul Mohd was the smallest one with only 126 HH beneficiaries. UC Kamal Khan, Drig Bala, and Chhini had above 5 hundred beneficiaries at 501 HH, 671 HH, and 656 HH respectively.UC Sawro has scattered population with 298 beneficiaries registered. 186 HH were registered in riverine area of Taluka Dadu at UC Siyal.

 Women are 51% beneficiary on the project over 49% men beneficiaries. This percentage difference is due to priority to women HH over men on the project. Another reason for this difference is due to registration of widows on the project in assessment criteria.

Tractor Trollies transporting shelter kits to villages for distribution

3275 HH were assessed at fully damaged at target UCs whereas 225 HH had received partial damaged (but housed not in living condition).In assessment, 652 females were recorded pregnant whereas 992 women’s information was received from beneficiaries as lactating women. 3025 HH head were men and 475 HH were female on the project as final beneficiary. 537 HH had windows in their family with 475 HH had women as HH head. 200 HH had disabled persons in their family. 1134 HH Head were old age HH Head.

Shelter was desgined as cost effective immediate solution to needs of villagers during early recovery phase. Shelter kits also included NFIs to support their livings and recovery. This shelter is sufficient to provide them save living for upto one year till they get any other releif support or recover from floods affects.  

AHD technical team helping villagers to construct shelter

Accessibility roads to majority of villages were badly damaged with flood water and were not easy to reach with shelter kits. Tractor-Trollies were only available transport to reach those villages. Harsh weather was one of the major hindrance in distribuiton of large number of shelter kits that was performed in 15 days in 54 C^o. To perform the task 100 field staff along with 60 labors at warehouse were hired.



NFI kits ready for distribution among beneficiares

AHD team of engineers trained in construction of shelter helped and trained beneficiary to construct shelter and giving them technical support and supervision. These shelters were also given weather conditions consideration in design along with DRR practices adoptation. With these inteventions AHD succeeded in helping 3500 families recover from floods affected.