Photo Gallery After the Floods
Some remote areas in Pakistan hit by the recent floods still haven't received any aid. With the authorities unable to cope, private charities have stepped in. But just getting to the affected villages is a huge challenge. Here, workers with a private charity load up a truck in Takht-i'Bhai in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province with relief supplies.
Kamal and Nighat Aziz of the private German charity Humanity Care Foundation have purchased water containers, plastic dishes and food from local merchants. "It helps the local economy," says Kamal Aziz, a retired brigadier general in the Pakistani army.
They hired this truck for the equivalent of 30 ($38) to take the relief supplies to the area affected by the floods.
A police officer in the village of Jura collects identity cards. The plan is to register the people so that the distribution of goods proceeds in an organized fashion. The organizers want to avoid a riot.
A villager squats on the remains of his house. He has managed to save a few pieces of wood which he wants to use to build a new dwelling once the monsoon is past.
In the village of Jura, a crowd quickly gathers around the truck bed. Shouting police officers tell the people to form a line.
The workers from the Humanity Care Foundation distribute gas cookers as well as water containers
Although it has been raining for days, there is an acute shortage of drinking water. This boy grabbed a bottle of water from a charity worker and drank it down in a few gulps.
This family in Jura village had packed the possessions they were able to save in sacks.
Nurjan and her family lost their house and sugarcane field in the flood. "The house was made of bricks, now we don't have any materials to build a new one," she says.
This boy in Mianwali village was left with just a shirt, which he now has to use as a loincloth. Together with other children from the village, he has been trying to salvage building material from the Swat River as it floats past.
People bring salvaged building materials and firewood to safety. Most of the locals say they want to return to their villages and rebuild them as soon as they can.
Water buffalo which would normally be working in the fields are used to pull carts.
Half of the village of Mianwali on the Swat River was washed away in the flood, the other half was destroyed.
"Nobody comes to help us," says Mohammed Asif (left). "The whole world thinks we are all Taliban." He says he is "very, very happy" to finally receive help after 10 days.
A group of men from the village of Mianwali stand on a destroyed sugarcane field and discuss which houses should be rebuilt first.
A girl washes dishes in the muddy water.
Nighat Aziz distributes clothes to the women of the village.
Mom, I think there's something to eat over there," this boy said before running to the truck with the relief supplies. The food that has been given out will only last for a few days, however.
