Bangladesh Floods Urgent Appeal 2012

Bangladesh was struck by torrential rainfall over a period of 5 days. The flood has killed 110 in Chittagong and other parts of the South East - including the Cox's Bazar and Bandarban areas. Flooding has cut off the region from the rest of the country, shutting down roads, rail, air routes and communications. Flood Victims are living in miserable conditions without any proper food, shelter and clean water from last week. People have lost their houses and are living in open skies. Many organizations including the Bangladesh Army is helping rescue as many victims as much possible. But more efforts are required from civil society and the international community.

According to the flood warning and forecasting centre, flooding is getting worse in the North Eastern districts of Sylhet and Sunamgonj in the next 24 hours.

Reuters reported the flooding in Bangladesh, some of the heaviest in years, have set off flash floods and landslides, killing at least 110 people, stranding about 200,000 and over 150,000 have been marooned.

Low-lying and densely populated Bangladesh has been battered by torrential downpours during the wet season, which began in the past few weeks.

How Al-Mustafa Welfare is helping ...

Al-Mustafa Welfare Trust is delivering food packages, shelter and free medical aid for the all the affected flood regions. Al-Mustafa's Bangladesh director, Mr Kabeer, is looking after the aid activities in Chittagong and Sylhet with a team of volunteers. There is a huge shortage of food and first aid/medical aid at the moment. The team of volunteer doctors are currently helping the children and elderly to cope with water borne and flood related diseases. Al-Mustafa is also distributing water purification tablets among the flood victims to control the diseases. Elderly women and children are at higher risk of the catching the water borne diseases. Al-Mustafa recently carried out free medical camp in Sylhet and women and children were seen in huge numbers during their visit to the camp.

Al-Mustafa Welfare Trust is operating in Bangladesh since 2007 and runs a Primary school in Dhaka and various other projects such as free medical care, orphan sponsorship, livelihood programmes, and Qurbani and food programmes.

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