IOM has diverted 7,000 emergency shelter and non-food relief item
(NFI) kits from a contingency stockpile in Punjab to meet huge
demand for emergency shelter in Pakistan's flood-stricken Sindh
province.

The kits, each of which contains two plastic tarpaulins, ropes,
two blankets, a kitchen set, a bucket and a jerry can, will
complement 2,000 kits still stockpiled in Sindh and will be
distributed by IOM and shelter cluster partner agencies in
districts prioritized by the Sindh Provincial Disaster Management
Authority (PDMA.)

These include Umerkot (2,000), Tharparkar (1,000), Tando
Mohammed Khan (1,000), Tando Allah Yar (1,000), Mirpurkhas (1,000),
Sanghar (2,000) Shaheed Benazir Abad (1,000).

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IOM has already distributed some 17,000 shelter kits to flood
victims in Sindh. 

"We have local NGO partners willing and able to distribute these
kits to flood victims who desperately need our help. Distributing
these contingency stocks without guaranteed donor funding to
replace them is a high risk strategy, but it is a risk that we have
to take," says IOM Hyderabad Head of Office Arshad Rashid.

On September 18th IOM appealed to international donors for
US$14.6 million to procure and distribute emergency shelter and
non-food relief items to help over 550,000 vulnerable flood victims
over the next three months.

The money will go towards providing shelter and non-food relief
items, meeting the needs of displaced people in temporary
settlements and relief camps, tracking displacement, building local
capacity and coordinating the work of the Emergency Shelter
Cluster.

On Friday IOM, working closely with a local NGO FIF, which
provided a boat, delivered shelter and NFI kits to families
stranded on mud banks in a sea of flood water in Badin district's
Tando Bago sub-district.

The community, located about a mile from the town of Judho, had
been cut off from the town for nearly a month. Their submerged mud
houses had been completely destroyed and their only surviving
possessions were wooden charpoy string beds and a few quilts and
rice sacks that they had floated to safety and used to build
makeshift shelters.

A village elder told IOM that the only aid they had received had
been a delivery of rice by navy personnel in a zodiac
inflatable.

Many people were sick from drinking dirty water or were
suffering from malaria and all the crops in the area, including
cotton, rice, tomatoes, onions and chili had been destroyed by the
floods, he added.

"Unless the water recedes by next month, which seems very
unlikely, they also won't be able to plant their wheat crop - which
means they will lose another food staple," says IOM Operations
Officer Sher Sultan, who led the distribution.

Based on government and independent assessments, the UN believes
that nearly 5.5 million people have been affected by the floods in
Sindh. As many as 1.8 million have been displaced and are living in
government relief camps, on roadsides or on higher ground near
their submerged homes.

For more information on the work of the Emergency Shelter
Cluster in the 2011 Pakistan floods please go to:  "paragraph-link-no-underline" href="http://www.shelterpakistan.org"
target="_blank" title="">www.shelterpakistan.org

For pictures of IOM operations in Badin, please go to "paragraph-link-no-underline" href=
"http://www.iom.int">www.iom.int

For other information please contact:

Saleem Rehmat

IOM Islamabad

Tel: +92.300.856.0341

E-mail: "mailto:srehmat@iom.int">srehmat@iom.int

or

Chris Lom

Tel: +92.303.555.2058

E-mail: "mailto:clom@iom.int">clom@iom.int