UN needs far more money for Pakistan floods

September 06, 2010 06:29 pm | Updated November 28, 2021 09:30 pm IST - ISLAMABAD

A Pakistani boy smiles as he has hot meal at a camp for floods victims in Makli, Sindh province, southern Pakistan. File photo: AP.

A Pakistani boy smiles as he has hot meal at a camp for floods victims in Makli, Sindh province, southern Pakistan. File photo: AP.

The United Nations says it needs hundreds of millions of dollars in new donations to get food, water, medicine and shelter to Pakistanis hit by flooding.

The U.N. is preparing to ask member nations to give an amount that will be at least double the $460 million it requested last month at the start of the flooding, said Jean Maurice Ripert, the U.N. secretary general's special envoy for assistance to Pakistan.

The U.N. has received $310 million towards the initial appeal, although private and bilateral donations bring the global total committed for Pakistan flood aid to roughly $1.1 billion.

Some eight million to 10 million people remain in need of some sort of daily assistance, out of a total of 18.7 million affected by the flooding, Mr. Ripert said.

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