Senator Sherry Rehman, Federal Minister for Climate Change, launched the 2nd Humanitarian Appeal with the UN Office in Geneva on Tuesday for the victims of Pakistan’s devastating floods.
“This Second Appeal urgently seeks US$ 816 million to provide prioritized multi-sectoral aid. There are a total of 20.6 million people still in need. This humanitarian appeal targets protection to 9.5 million people with focus on the 34 districts in all four provinces.”
“We are gathered here to reboot your compassion simply because the numbers are too staggering to service for any one country alone. 33 million people affected are 7 million more than the entire population of Australia. Imagine rescuing, feeding, sheltering, and resettling an entire country? We have been working around the clock, flat out through the aftershocks, but just to pick up the pieces. We will literally need a new coalition of the willing. It was done for war and it can be done to save millions of lives.”
