There are meetings that you do not forget so quickly. Like those with Samlo Khan, his wife and their four children Bashira. Your Address: Hatri, camp for displaced people, an hour north of Hayderabad in southern Pakistan. Samlo Khan was landless laborers for a large landowner. In Pakistan they are called Haris. The 44-year-old in early August brought his family from the floods to safety.
Bashira with two of her children
Two months later, we sit in the late afternoon sun outside the tent on the wide bed, which was rescued from the water along with a cabinet made of wood and tin. Bashira is preparing to open fire on the tea. Walid, the 6-year-old second youngest, has also put to us. Samlo Khan first thanks for the help of the Red Cross. Like the other 120 families of the camp, he received for his family a tent and blankets. And every two weeks, 20 kilos of lentils, rice, cooking oil, salt, sugar and tea.
The cabinet that was saved from the floods.
"When in early August broke up our home made of mud like sugar in water, had to take our overnight flight. Together with our neighbors, we rented a truck, "says Khan Samlo. For the 150-kilometer trip to the Red Cross warehouse in Hatri they have the entire Savings depleted. 30,000 rupees, or slightly more than 400 francs for four families.
Recently someone had taken the decision out of their village in the area of Dudu in the Sindh province, the water was still not fully drained. To spend the next few weeks they are in safe storage. The volunteers of the local Red Crescent, they can not fail and continue to provide them with food rations.
expected in January, my friendly hosts will be able to return to their neighbors in their dry village. The wide bed and the cabinet made of wood and metal are then restrained with. Transport costs for the return trip takes the SRC, and a food supply for the first few weeks they will take on the uncertain path. When we Bashira served the tea, the sun appeared on the near horizon, the barren hills in a dark red light. At parting I can feel a lump in the throat.
Samlo Khan with the 6-year-old Wahid
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