Where:
Where:Punjab region
Target audience:
Target audience:Rural communities living along Pakistani rivers
Who is following the project?
Who is following the project?Br. Azeem
Fundraising concluded
thank you to all donors!
Background
Between August and September 2025, the Punjab region of Pakistan suffered one of the worst floods in its history. Record monsoon rains and releases from dams across the border caused three of the five major rivers crossing the territory to overflow, devastating the vast areas that depend on agriculture around their banks.
More than 2,000 villages were entirely submerged and more than 2 million people were forced from their homes, while casualties numbered in the dozens. More than 1.05 million acres of farmland have been destroyed, with incalculable damage to vital crops such as rice, maize, cotton and sugarcane. The economic damage is severe, with entire communities deprived of their livelihoods, while the risk of epidemics and malnutrition grows daily.
Friars in Pakistan
The Order of Friars Minor is present in Pakistan with the Custody of St. John the Baptist, which has more than 60 friars distributed between Karachi and Lahore. The Friars Minor report the gravity of the situation and their commitment to provide concrete responses to families who have lost all forms of livelihood and people in need of medical care, doing what they can to avoid a humanitarian catastrophe.
The intervention of the friars
Local communities are in need of
The project aims to distribute food parcels and essential items to 1,000 families andestablish medical camps to benefit about 500 individuals in need of primary and urgent care.
Fundraising concluded
Thank you to all donors!