Save the Children launched an appeal to help children and families forced from their homes by the escalating conflict in Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province.
Since then, 1.64 million people have returned home since the conflict began to reside, but 148,690 people remain displaced.
Save the Children, in partnership with the government of Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province and local authorities, will provide health services and household supplies to families affected by the crisis. Protection and education programs will be available for children in temporary accommodation.
Emergency assistance will focus on children separated from their families, families with children under the age of five or with an injured or chronically ill family member and households run by women.
"The lengthy conflict and intermittent fighting over the past one-and-a-half years has stressed household reserves, disrupted the local economy and resulted in the destruction of hundreds of schools," said Ned Olney, who heads Save the Children’s international humanitarian response efforts globally. "There is a desperate need for food and basic health services are also badly over-stretched."
Save the children has reached an estimated 456,141 people through the provision of food supplies, education, protection of children and women, livelihood support and health and nutrition services in the districts of Swabi, Mardan, Buner and Swat, yet there are still many needs to be met. Nearly all families are in need of blankets and quilts before winter arrives. Family income has been reduced by an average of 70% and debt has risen. Children are suffering from a myriad of health issues including malnutrition and poor hygiene and education in many areas is still being restore.
Save the Children in coordination with government, will continue to put into action our plan that aims to ensure that all families affected by the conflict can recover quickly.
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