As floodwaters recede in the north and centre of the country
leaving devastation in their wake, thousands more families are
facing displacement in southern Sindh as Manchar Lake in Sindh's
Dadu and Jamshoro districts starts to overflow.

IOM has opened a new hub in Hyderabad to speed up distribution
of shelter material and non-food relief items in the area. The hub
has already distributed more than 11,000 tarpaulins, over 10,000
jerry cans, some 11,500 blankets and more than 2,000 ropes to
displaced families in Thatta, Dadu, Badin, Jamshoro and Hyderabad
districts.

The relief items were donated by USAID's Office of Foreign
Disaster Assistance (OFDA) and distributed through IOM local
partners Strengthening Participatory Organization (SPO), Action for
Humanitarian Development (AHD) and John Social Welfare Organization
(JSWO).

"The Hyderabad hub brings the Emergency Shelter Cluster and our
logistics capacity closer to the people who most need our help as
the epicentre of this vast disaster continues to move south," says
IOM Regional Representative for West and Central Asia Hassan Abdel
Moneim Mostafa.

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IOM coordinates the efforts of the "cluster" – a group of
over 70 international and local aid agencies – providing
emergency shelter and other non-food relief items, including tents,
plastic sheeting, bedding and household goods to flood victims.

"Cluster agencies have managed to get emergency shelter to over
300,000 households or 2.1 million people since early August, but
the needs remain staggering, particularly in Sindh, where we are
still only reaching a small fraction of the families who need a
roof over their heads," says Abdel Moneim Mostafa.

According to the government's National Disaster Management
Authority (NDMA), over 1.8 million houses have been damaged or
destroyed by the floodwaters nationwide. Using a conservative
estimate of seven people per household, this would suggest that as
many as 10 million people may still be without basic shelter from
wind, rain and sun.

But international consignments of shelter aid are continuing to
arrive in the country. IOM has now taken delivery of 27 flights
carrying consignments from USAID / OFDA, UK / DFID, the European
Union, the UN and Americares. Yesterday it took delivery of 3,000
tents donated to NDMA by China.

New funding is also coming in. IOM's August flood appeal for USD
38 million is now 68 per cent funded at USD 26 million. Its new
appeal, which will be released in New York later today as part of
the Floods Emergency Response Plan (FERP), will seek to more than
triple the original amount. Details of the IOM appeal will appear
on the IOM website by 7:00 am Islamabad time tomorrow
(Saturday).

For more information on IOM's activities in Pakistan, to
download IOM funding appeals or to donate to IOM's flood response,
please go to: "/jahia/Jahia/pakistan" target="" title=
"">http://www.iom.int/jahia/Jahia/pakistan.

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title="">http://sites.google.com/site/shelterpak2010/.

For additional information please contact:

Saleem Rehmat

IOM Islamabad

Tel: +92.300 856 0341

E-mail: "mailto:srehmat@iom.int">srehmat@iom.int

or

Chris Lom

Tel: +92.300 852 6357

E-mail: "mailto:clom@iom.int">clom@iom.int