Pakistan conflict
Last year Pakistan’s military campaign left hundreds of thousands of people homeless. We launched an appeal to help people affected by an on-going military offensive against Taliban insurgents. With your support we reached 571,216 people.
Idrees, 10, and Shehzad, 7, with pictures they drew at a temporary school in Pakistan – one of 11 schools that we support. They fled their homes due to the conflict in north-western Pakistan.
A military campaign against the Taliban led to hundreds of thousands of civilians fleeing their homes in the Swat, Buner, and Lower Dir districts of the North West Frontier Provinces – the country’s worst internal displacement crisis since its creation in 1947.
We spent £50,000 from our Children’s Emergency Fund, which allows us to respond immediately to a crisis, and launched our appeal. Through your generosity we raised a further £26,961.
What we did with your support
- Our medical teams treated 119,569 patients
- Our 12 mobile play buses helped children in Swat, Buner and Swabi district forget about their worries and play with their friends.
- We distributed food to thousands of vulnerable families.
- We helped support the set-up of 53 small businesses in the districts affected by the conflict– 37% of whom were women.
Even though this appeal has closed, we are helping children and their families in Pakistan through our ongoing project work. We’re paying health staff to run under-staffed health clinics, rehabilitating health clinics and supplying them with medicines and materials. We’re also helping pregnant mothers living in rural areas have a safe pregnancy and delivery.
We’re running temporary schools for families who aren’t able to return home because of the ongoing conflict and we’re rehabilitating schools that were damaged in the conflict. We’re also running safe places for children to play with their friends.
We’re giving vulnerable families cash payments so they can buy essentials and assets to help them earn a living. We’ve giving seeds, tools and agricultural training to families who are able to farm.
We’re also distributing blankets and heavy winter clothing to families living in remote mountainous regions to help them stay warm this winter.
You can help us reach other children in emergencies by supporting our Children’s Emergency Fund.
Thank you.
Photo story of our response
Caught in the recent conflict between the Taliban and government forces, people have lost their homes, possessions and members of their families. Many families are trying to return home, to rebuild their lives. Some are still living in cramped conditions which leave them — and children in particular — vulnerable to disease. Photos: Alixandra Fazzina
Alam Khan sits with his daughters Neelam, Uzma and Tasleem in the one-room mud house in Mardan district, North West Frontier Province, that they are sharing with a family who kindly offered to host them. Photo: Alixandra Fazzina
Sick with typhoid fever, Kalsoom, six, lies on a "charpoi" (strung bed) in the family's temporary home in Mayar, a village in Mardan district. Sharing what were once servants' quarters, six families are crammed into just two dirty rooms. Photo: Alixandra Fazzina 
Saeed, two, sitting with his mother Husan on a "charpoi" (strung bed) in the house they are staying in in Mayar. The family fled the conflict with more than sixty of their relatives. They are now all living in two mosquito-ridden, filthy rooms. Photo: Alixandra Fazzina
Safiullah, four, cradled by his mother Akbar Bibi, as he recovers from a fever in an overcrowded room being shared by three families. His family fled the conflict during a break in the military curfew as security forces and the Taliban began to attack their village. Photo: Alixandra Fazzina
Watched over by some of her relatives, ten-year-old Shabeer Ali unpacks a bucket containing essential items such as kitchenware, soap, matting and a stove supplied by Save the Children. The family fled the conflict with just the clothes on their backs and are now sharing a two-roomed house with three other families. The kit was desperately needed as it was the first humanitarian aid they had received since they arrived ten days ago. Photos: Alixandra Fazzina
Ten-year-old Shabeer Ali brushes her younger brother's hair with a comb that was part of a household kit provided by Save the Children. Photo: Alixandra Fazzina
Alia, 11, washes up cups and dishes in a metal basin provided by Save the Children. Photo: Alixandra Fazzina
Faiz holds his sick eight-month-old son, Junaid, as they attend a clinic run by Save the Children for internally displaced people at Kalu Khan Hospital in Mardan district. Junaid has been suffering from diarrhoea and a high temperature for the last eight days. It's taken all that time for Faiz to find proper treatment for his son. Photo: Alixandra Fazzina