{"id":52457,"date":"2023-02-08T16:15:09","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T07:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/feb\/08\/help-women-floods-pakistan"},"modified":"2023-02-08T16:15:09","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T07:15:09","slug":"i-couldnt-sleep-i-cried-at-night-but-i-had-to-help-the-women-devastated-by-the-floods-in-pakistan-abida-channa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=52457","title":{"rendered":"I couldn\u2019t sleep. I cried at night. But I had to help the women devastated by the floods in Pakistan | Abida Channa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the rains came last autumn, I was among the millions made homeless in Sindh province. Here is why \u2013 months later \u2013 I am still helping to patch up ruined lives<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/feb\/08\/pakistan-families-hungry-and-homeless-floods\">Pakistan families still hungry and homeless months after the floods<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/12\/pakistan-floods-impact-years-crops-farms\">floods in Pakistan<\/a> last year were frustrating, heartbreaking and on a scale unseen in my lifetime. Hundreds of thousands of homes collapsed, streets were inundated and millions of people were made homeless.<\/p>\n<p>My home in Naseerabad, a town in the Qambar Shahdadkot district of Sindh province, was flooded and unlivable.<strong> <\/strong>With my children and husband, I moved to my mother\u2019s house. We were four families living in one room \u2013 my sister, brother and their children too. More than 20 people were living under one roof, which we worried would collapse on top of us. But I was lucky to have a place to stay. Millions didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/feb\/08\/help-women-floods-pakistan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the rains came last autumn, I was among the millions made homeless in Sindh province. Here is why \u2013 months later \u2013 I am still helping to patch up ruined livesRead more: Pakistan families still hungry and homeless months after the floodsThe floods &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3560,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[65,455,313,59,1709,60,61,617,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-extreme-weather","category-flooding","category-global-development","category-natural-disasters","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-womens-rights-and-gender-equality","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3560"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52458,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52457\/revisions\/52458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}