Canada’s minister Harjit Sajjan visits flood-hit Chitral

Canada’s International Development Minister Harjit Sajjan visited. Flood prone areas In Chitral – a district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. He said that Canada supports Pakistan for immediate relief and rehabilitation purposes.

Canadian High Commissioner to Pakistan Wendy Christine Gilmore and Canadian Member of Parliament Iqra Khalid, President of Ismaili Council for Pakistan Hafiz Sherali and CEO of Aga Khan Foundation Pakistan Akhtar Iqbal were also present with him on this occasion.

Interacting with communities in Chitral, the Canadian minister observed the Aga Khan Development Network’s (AKDN) flood response and early rehabilitation efforts in the worst-hit areas.

The Aga Khan Agency for Habitat (AKAH), AKDN’s lead response agency for the floods, evacuated more than 9,000 people. Affected areas. The agency has provided food packages to more than 4,000 families since the floods began. AKAH has set up health care camps in many parts of the country where more than 50,000 patients have been treated in Sindh, Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Gilgit-Baltistan.

Harjeet Sajjan also visited the flood-affected village of Breep in Chitral. They discussed climate change resilience, youth employment and women’s empowerment, and visited areas where the current Global Affairs Canada (GAC) is driving broader economic and social change for women’s economic empowerment and recovery. (BEST4WEER), Foundations for Health and Empowerment (F4HE) and Healthy Khandan (SMK) programs are being implemented by AKDN agencies.

Pakistan and Canada have a longstanding relationship. The Government of Canada has expressed its concern at this critical time and is committed to support. Relief efforts in the country.

The Canadian minister said in a statement that no country can prepare for a climate emergency of this scale. He said that his country is assisting Pakistan for immediate relief and rehabilitation purposes.