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Across the globe we are experiencing the direct impacts of climate change in different forms - severe droughts, heatwaves and in some areas extreme flooding. Flash floods in Pakistan have killed more than 550 people since June, destroying countless homes and livelihoods.

Reconstruction efforts are now underway to rebuild devastated communities, but it will be a long process.
Alkhidmat Foundation is one organisation working in flood-affected areas rescuing people, providing cooked food, delivering dry rations, providing hygiene kits, and conducting medical camps.

But still, a huge number of people are waiting for help as the President of the Alkhidmat Foundation Pakistan, Abdus Shakoor, told 蜜芽传媒 Newsday.

"People were not expecting this kind of rain and flood. The roads are damaged and we cannot reach the people
sometimes [despite having] boats and ambulances with us. Sometimes we see people climbing on trees."

(Photo: Local residents survey the damage caused by flash floods in Pakistan; Credit: EPA)

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