Sindh Labour Relief committee consists of Labour Education Foundation,
Home Bassed Women Workers Federation, Home Based Women Bangle Workers
Union Hyderabad, National Trade Union Federation and Labour Party
Pakistan conducted its four camps in Karachi and supporting three
camps in Moro District, one in Hub and Thatta each where people coming
from suburb of Moro, Jaffarabad, Jaccobabad and get shelter in
different places.

Three members of Home Based Women Workers Federation Zehra Khan,
Irfana Jabbar and Shahla Rizwan visited 15 flood relief camps and
distributed dry food and cloths among women and men in Moro 28 to 30th
August 2010 where they visited and met with women and other in the
camps.

Total 40 camps sets in Moro and most of the flood victims get shelter
in government schools and living in very bad condition. 3 to 4 kins
live in a one room and total 80 to 200 people living in one school.
They were not getting proper food for their family. No clean drinking
water they have and latrine condition is very bad and unhygienic.
Majority of the people suffer from gastro, diarrhea, eye allergy and
skin diseases. Most affectees form flood is women and children. Women
still confine in their camps just like their homes! And busy in their
house hold activities and look after her whole family.

Majority of them are agriculture workers who plucking the cotton from
field and get less then men like women told us in three camps that for
plucking the cotton women get 70 to 80 rupees on 40 kilo grams while
men gets 200 rupees on that. Majority of them also engaged in
stitching cloths (60 to 80 rupees for adult suits and 35 rupees on
children cloths) , embroidery (150 to 200) and making rilly (100 to
300) work but now they all are jobless! They said that they had no
single thing left behind them they have to build all things from
start.

Majority of complaints were same in each camps like

Ø Their children were suffer from gastro, diarrhea, vomiting, skin allergy

Ø They have no access to health facilities like majority of them said
that government hospital had no medicines they give slip of medicine
from market and they have no money to buy it.

Ø No clean water

Ø No proper latrine facilities

Ø Less utensils and having problem in preparing food

Ø No gas facilities: in some camps people contributed and get gas from
their neighbors and majority of the people said that for cooking they
have to buy the wood which was 150 to 250 rupees on per 40 kg.

Ø No jobs or work

Ø Pregnant women facing problems like no lady doctor were visited
them. In one camp we met with one lady whose pregnancy was exceed from
9th month but due to no proper health faculty she is not getting
treatment.

Ø Cloths

Ø Load shedding and

Ø Proper cleanness in the area

Ø No proper place to live: in some camps people said that the school
management told them to vacant the place for starting the session.
They need place and tent to leave the school place. (majority of the
victims were settled in schools)

People in the camp also complained that the government officer is from
Kohrai tribe (mentioned by majority of people in different camps) so
he provided all things, UN distributed on 28th August 2010, to his
tribe. Majority of permanent people getting all aid but people from
suburb were not facilitating properly. They also said that aid
provided to family but not according to the size of the family which
not fulfill their needs. Government giving them 20000 thousand rupees
but it is not enough for them they lost all the things like their
home, cattle’s and crops. They need place to live, tent and work to
survive them selves. Three people (1 men and two women) said that they
have hand to work they will stand on their foot in few months.

Moro Labour Relief Committee is also the part of Sindh Labour Relief
committee (SLRC) has collected Rs. 900000 in kind and cash till date
and SLRC collected 650000 (cash, medicine, food, water and cloths). In
Hyderabad LPP, Adresh Sath with CPP collected nearly 5 hundred
thousand in kind and cash. At the movement we have been doing our
relief work in Karachi, Hyderabad, Thatta, Moro and Hub Balochistan.

If you wish to donate from Europe  this is one of  two websites  who will direct money given via their donate buttons to this fund if you include the word Pakistan on the donation message.  By donating through these accounts the cost of the transfer of money to Pakistan is reduced.

If you wish to transfer funds directly, below are details of the account for sending money to the LRC.
A/C Title: Labour Education Foundation
A/C Number: 01801876
Route:
Please advise and pay to Citi Bank, New York, USA Swift CITI US 33 for onward transfer to BANK ALFALAH LTD., KARACHI, PAKISTAN A/C No. 36087144 and for final transfer to BANK ALFALAH LTD., LDA PLAZA, KASHMIR ROAD, LAHORE, PAKISTAN Swift: ALFHPKKALDA for A/C No. 01801876 OF LABOUR EDUCATION FOUNDATION