Pakistan: ICRC and Red Crescent help people displaced by violence in North-West Frontier Province
20-10-2009 Photo gallery
As thousands flee fighting in the south of Waziristan, the ICRC and the Pakistan Red Crescent continue to help people displaced in the north of the country over the last six months. A large percentage have been able to go home, but violence is continuing, and is still forcing many to remain in camps in North-West Frontier Province.
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As thousands flee fighting in the south of Waziristan, the ICRC continues to help people displaced in the north of the country over the last six months. Since July, a large percentage of those who were displaced have been able to go home – although life is still difficult – and several camps have closed. But violence is continuing, and is still forcing many to remain in camps at various locations in North-West Frontier Province. The ICRC and the Pakistan Red Crescent Society are distributing food, drinking water and other emergency aid to people in the camps. At the same time, the two organizations are ensuring that displaced people can maintain as normal a daily life as possible. Our photos show examples from the districts of Dir and Buner.
Khungi Sha Camp (Dir). A little girl who was displaced along with her family.
Khungi Sha Camp in the district of Dir was set up in August 2009 by the ICRC and the Pakistan Red Crescent Society to accommodate displaced people in the Maidan region. Initially, they had been staying in schools. At the beginning of October, the families returned home, and the camp took in a second wave of displaced people, this time from Bajaur Agency in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas.