“The floods swallowed our home within minutes. We barely escaped with our lives. Our animals drowned, still tied in their sheds,” said Muhammad Raj from Shangla, pointing to the rubble that was once his house.

Since late June, relentless monsoon rains have unleashed catastrophic flooding across Pakistan. Torrential downpours, flash floods, and cloudbursts have affected more than 6.3 million people, claiming over 1,900 lives. Homes, farmlands, and livelihoods lie in ruins, while vast parts of the country remain underwater.

The devastation is most severe in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and Punjab. In KP, flash floods and sudden cloudbursts swept through districts such as Buner, Shangla, and Swat, destroying homes, roads, and bridges. Punjab is enduring its worst flooding in decades: 1.9 million people displaced and over a million acres of farmland submerged, crippling the country’s agricultural heartland.

Amid this crisis, Action For Humanity Pakistan (AFHP) has been among the first to respond, reaching some of the hardest-hit and most inaccessible communities. From mountain villages in KP cut off by landslides, to floodplains in Punjab where families abandoned submerged homes, AFHP teams have delivered life-saving relief to more than 40,000 people.

In KP, teams trekked 9km through collapsed roads and rugged terrain to reach stranded families without food or clean water. In Punjab, AFHP stood alongside communities whose homes and farmland were swept away by swollen rivers, leaving them displaced and vulnerable. Aid has included hot meals, food parcels, clean drinking water, and WASH–Dignity Kits to help prevent disease outbreaks such as diarrhoea, which spread quickly in flood-affected areas.

“We are very grateful to Action For Humanity Pakistan for this support in our time of need. No other organisation has reached us,” said Hameed Mai, a widow from Taunsa, Punjab. “We had to flee as the swollen river eroded the land beneath our home, sweeping it away.”

The threat is far from over. Authorities warn of a new spell of heavy rains as floodwaters surge downstream into Sindh, pushing the Indus River to perilous levels and inundating riverine communities. With conditions expected to deteriorate further, humanitarian needs will grow more urgent.

Action For Humanity Pakistan remains committed to scaling up its response, standing with affected communities through this deepening crisis and bringing hope for recovery when the waters recede.

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