The Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC)’s Pakistan Floods Appeal has raised £25m two weeks after launching.
The total includes £5m in funding through the UK government’s Aid Match scheme.
The money is being used to support communities impacted by the floods, which has destroyed or damaged around 1.7m homes and impacted around 33 million people.
People in the region face further threats from diseases such as cholera, malaria and typhoid.
A major concern is a Dengue fever outbreak in Karachi in Sindh Province and refugee villages in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
Fears are also mounting of further flooding due to continuing rain in the area.
Devastating floods in Pakistan have destroyed bridges and roads, cutting off entire villages from each other.
— DEC (@decappeal) September 18, 2022
DEC charities are travelling to these communities by any means necessary to provide them with emergency life-saving support.
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DEC chief executive Saleh Saeed said that the coalition of aid charities is particular grateful for donations at a time of national mourning for Queen Elizabeth II.
“This incredible outpouring of support has enabled DEC charities to provide essential aid and to relieve some of the suffering faced by millions of people in Pakistan right now,” he said.
“But the scale of this devastation means we need to do much more if we are to protect the many men, women and children facing weeks and months of hunger and disease and whose lives and livelihoods have been destroyed.
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