Heavy rains have triggered flash floods and wreaked havoc across Pakistan since mid-June leaving large swathes of the country inundated. The cities of Sindh province are no exception, especially Shaheed Benazirabad District previously known as Nawabshah District where villages are submerged in water. The affected population has the overall challenge of inundated houses, streets, and markets. Drainage systems have collapsed in cities and even villages have no such system. Several Katcha/Pakka houses collapsed, and livelihood resources were stopped.
Mr. Abid Lashari, our Legislative Fellowship Program (LFP) alumnus and President National Disability & Development Forum (NDF), is Social Activist and leading an NGO, which is a registered non-profit organization. He is working with the vulnerable flood-affected communities of Sindh with all his strength and spirit. He is engaged with all the stakeholders at all levels i.e., district administration, political leadership, national and international NGOs for humanitarian assistance, local philanthropist notables, and influential for support in terms of cooked food, safe drinking water, first aid medicines, and mosquito nets.
He has also worked as Edhi Volunteer with Faisal Edhi and approached 08-10 districts of Sindh province including Shaheed Benazirabad, Naushehro Feroze, Sanghar, Khairpur, Larkana, Ambar-Shahdadkot, Dadu, Matiari, Sukkur, Ghotki, Shikarpur, and others with the provision of dry ration (food packs) to 5000-8000 families. He also distributed 200 food packs among persons with disabilities through Sukkur Beverages limited (PEPSI) and 70 food packets through Edhi Foundation. Lashari is working with a partnership of NDF with Iltizam Relief Society Malaysia, which provided cooked food to 600 families in Nawabshah and planned to distribute 500 dry ration packs and mosquito nets among 500 families at the end of September 2022. NDF Pakistan Nawabshah has been awarded a Grant of USD-5000 from Global Giving USA, in which 200 families were provided dry food packs and mosquito nets. He is very much committed to providing his services in a difficult time, to raise money/funds to bring resources to unheard people of Sindh.
