Supervision: Mr. Shahid Ahmed Memon (Chairman)
Survey Duration: 11/10/2022 to 14/10/2022
Submission Date: 18/10/2022
Pakistan Disabled Foundation conducted a survey to assess the condition of flood-affected disabled individuals across Sindh, Balochistan, and South Punjab.
– Villages/Cities Visited: 07
– Houses/Sites Visited: 27
– Meetings with affected individuals conducted
– Physical disabilities
– Visually impaired (blind/low vision)
– Multiple disabilities
Hunger, health, and poverty are major issues. Many families have multiple disabled members. Houses are partially damaged and made from weak materials like mud, bamboo, and palm leaves.
Cross cheques, ration, blankets, mosquito nets, and other essential items were distributed.
Observations: During visits
meetings with disabled individual/ families, it is generally observed that:
1: There is more hunger/ health/ poverty issues then any sever disability.
2: Many of the visited disabled families, more than one person is suffering from one or multiple disabilities.
3: Most or part of the houses are partially affected.
4: In many villages, houses constructed with mud, bricks, tree trunks and palm leaves. 5: Most of roof were made up of bamboos and palm leaves.
6: It is also observed that three major factors caused the damage, of house structure such as:
• Weight of the rain water, collapsed flat roof of the house.
• Non-concrete floors, after rain and flood water, turns into uneven and thickly muddy harmful surface in and outside the houses and surrounding areas.
• The use of non- concrete or flexible membranes.
After having visit and survey as mentioned above cross cheques for construction and support in kind like Ration, Blankets , Mosquito net and otherwise were provided amongst deserving disabled persons .