One year on, Pakistanís flood survivors recovering and
rebuilding lives A year after Pakistan's worst floods in modern
history killed around 2,000 and displaced millions, Plan has
helped hundreds of thousands of families recover and rebuild
their lives with better access to clean water, schools and
child-friendly spaces. As the heavy monsoon rains left a fifth
of the country under water and displaced an eighth of its
170-million population, Plan ramped up its local operations to
provide emergency relief for a quarter of a million people, and
will reach out to provide recovery and rehabilitation support to
over 1 million people in the worst affected areas by September
2011. "The floods hit the most vulnerable, especially children,
the hardest and Plan is now focusing on longer-term projects to
better prepare communities to face natural disasters in the
future," Plan Pakistan's country director Haider Yaqub said.
"Children are affected by natural disasters in complex and far-
reaching ways. Their well-being is k