Pakistan suffered from severe monsoon weather in the summer of 2022, which caused the worst flooding to hit the country in decades. A third of the country was under water – affecting 33 million people, of which 16 million were children.
Flash flooding from monsoon rains submerged thousands of homes, washing away towns and villages, leaving many people homeless and exposed to the elements.
Nearly 24,000 schools were damaged or destroyed, with a further 5,500 schools used as temporary shelters. This disrupted schooling for more than 670,000 children.
The floods also damaged over two million acres of crops, and killed more than 1.1 million livestock, increasing the price of food and leaving millions on the brink of starvation.
A combination of communities surrounded by large areas of contaminated water, damage to clean water supplies and sanitation systems, and hot, humid weather precipitated an increase in the spread of deadly waterborne diseases including cholera, as well as related vector-borne diseases such as malaria and dengue fever.
