UAE Red Crescent shelter for thousands of Pakistan flood victims
The UAE Red Crescent Authority (RCA) began building homes yesterday for 20,000 families affected by the floods that have devastated Pakistan.
The project, worth US$7.8 million (Dh28.6m), co-financed by the RCA and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), will involve erecting thousands of seven-person tents in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region, which was hit hard by the floods.
The tents, made from all-weather material, are expected to be ready by the end of November.
“During the 10-week period [until then], whenever a tent is ready, a family will be moving in – we won’t wait until the whole project is ready,” said Mohammed al Qamzi, secretary general of the RCA.
A follow-up project will transfer the families to transitional homes, which can also be modified to become permanent houses.
