Pakistan struggles to rebuild schools after floods
(22 Jun 2023) RESTRICTION SUMMARY: ASSOCIATED PRESS Dadu, Pakistan – 17 May 2023 1. Pan left from government primary school destroyed by last year’s floods to makeshift school set up by UNICEF 2. Various of children at makeshift school 3. Close UNICEF banner 4. Pan left from schoolteacher Abdul Sattar to children inside tent 5. Various of children taking class 6. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Abdul Sattar, schoolteacher: “(At this makeshift school) the heat is nearly unbearable and because of that many children get ill. They get stomach disorders very often.” 7. Various of Sattar teaching inside tent 8. Various of children leaving school, walking on rubble of damaged school building 9. Top shot of school building destroyed by floods and makeshift school set up by UNICEF ASSOCIATED PRESS ARCHIVE: Dadu, Pakistan - 11 September 2022 10. Painted Pakistani flag on submerged wall 11. People fleeing area affected by floods on a boats ASSOCIATED PRESS Dadu, Pakistan – 17 May 2023 12. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Abid Hussain, social worker: “There was no rehabilitation from the government. Schools have been destroyed. Hospitals and dispensaries have been destroyed. Children have to study under tents. There are hardly any facilities. It is so hot here. Children cannot study under tents in this scorching heat. Hundreds of thousands who lost homes are still living under the open sky. They spent winter like this. And now they’re spending summer like this too.” 13. Hussain showing school damaged by floods 14. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Abid Hussain, social worker: “The government should pay attention to these people’s problems. They are Pakistanis too. The government doesn’t realize its duties. The government should provide good education, good houses to live in after such disasters. It is the responsibility of the state.” 15. Various of Kaloo Khan and his seven children living in a hut in Arzi Naich village after they lost their house during last year’s floods 16. Various Khan’s daughter rolling dough to make flatbreads 17. Various of Khan eating flatbread 18. SOUNDBITE (Sindhi) Kaloo Khan, resident: “I am sitting in a tent. My house has collapsed. I don’t have enough to build it again. Because of living under the open sky, my children get sick. My wife got sick in floods and eventually died because I did not have money. There is no one to take care of my children. Without my wife there is no life. Should I take care of the children or go for work? I am helpless, poor, old. I can’t find work because I am old. People say to me ‘you are so old, how you are going to work’.” 19. Various of families displaced by floods living in huts 20. Various of children living in huts 21. Top pan left village damaged by floods STORYLINE: Situated downstream from Pakistan’s other provinces, Sindh suffered a heavy blow from last year’s flooding and has been slow to recover. One impact that residents fear will be long-lasting is the destruction of the province’s schools. Around half of Sindh’s 40,356 schools were either fully or partially damaged, affecting 2.3 million of its 4.5 million students, according to local education officials. One reason for the scale of the damage was the age of the school buildings, between 25 to 30 years old. Another is that they weren’t climate resistant or built to withstand flooding, despite the province suffering from some of the most extreme weather conditions in Pakistan. So far, only around 2,000 schools are being rebuilt, with hefty contributions from the Chinese government and the Asian Development Bank. AP Video by: Muhammad Farooq ---- Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: / ap_archive Facebook: / aparchives Instagram: / apnews You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...
