Celebrating 100th anniversary of CPC | South-South Cooperation Assistance Fund supports post-disaster reconstruction in Pakistan

Rahat Khan and his family lived in Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), where military conflicts happened all the time. With life and safety under constant threat, they were forced to flee their village and wander from place to place. Soon after, his father passed away due to illness, and his mother began to work as a servant to raise her four children.

The Chinese government and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), cooperating under the framework of the South-South Cooperation Assistance Fund, carried out a post-disaster assistance project in Pakistan in February 2018 offering assistance to displaced people in FATA. A total of 7,000 households that returned to FATA received packages of food aid and daily necessities, as well as emergency shelter kits. Teaching materials and stationary were also provided for 375 schools, where 18,750 children were benefited and 40 percent of them were girls.

Rahat and his family were among those who received daily necessities from the project. Rahat said that they were glad to receive the assistance, and that with the blankets and food at home, they no longer have to fear the freezing winter.