2 September 2010 UNICEF provides flood victims with mobile health units and temporary learning centres After a month of catastrophic flooding, relief efforts in southern sindh are being stretched by the country's unprecedented ongoing disaster. Sindh is the worst-affected province, with 19 of its 23 districts affected. As the waters head south wards, hundreds and thousands of hungry and desperate families have evacuated the villages around the district of Thatta and have come to the city for shelter as flood waters swell the raging Indus River to 40 times its usual volume. The resting place for the dead has now turned into a source of refuge for the living. For the past one week, displaced victims from the surrounding Daro, Bela, Thatta and Sujawal have brought life to the ruins of the historic graveyard of Makli, amongst the tombs and shrines of Muslim saints. Devastated people were seen sitting out in the open with their children and cattle. The orders to evacuate Thatta threw into chaos plans by thousands of people already on the move, fleeing flooded villages and hoping that the district's biggest city could provide relief and shelter. The numbers increase every day. But some families choose to keep close to their homes, and have managed to stay one step ahead of the rising waters. Iqbal's village lies submerged in the water, with his 7 children, he has set up camp overlooking what is left of his home, and swims out to fetch whatever food and supplies he can recover ...
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