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  • 30/08/2010
    Security situation slowing aid in Pakistan

    A deteriorating security situation is causing problems for relief agencies in certain parts of flood-hit Pakistan.

  • 30/08/2010
    Elderly among the most vulnerable in flood-hit Pakistan

    “We have just enough food to last for a few more weeks but after that I don’t know how we will cope” says Dhani Buksh a flood survivor from the southern province of Sindh in Pakistan.

  • 30/08/2010
    Fear of losing everything forcing people to take risks in disaster-hit Sindh

    “We know there is danger but we will not leave our village. Our homes are all we have and we can’t abandon them.” For Mohammad Siddique and the people of the village of Billaualpur in Sindh in southern Pakistan the fear of losing all they have is too much to take.

  • 30/08/2010
    Aid shipment from Ireland arrives in Pakistan

    One of the largest ever aid flights to come from Ireland touched down at Islamabad airport in Pakistan yesterday.

  • 27/08/2010
    Pakistan’s ‘forgotten’ people are worst flood victims

    Some of the most vulnerable victims of Pakistan’s floods are the most marginalised -, the peasant farmers, the crop sharers, the abused and downtrodden. “These are the forgotten people.  We have been working with them for years but even now they are in danger of being forgotten as aid flows into the country,” Paul Healy, our regional manager in Pakistan, said.

  • 26/08/2010
    Trócaire partners PFF rescue families in Pakistan

    “If it wasn’t for Trócaire’s support I may not have been able to rescue all my children never mind some of my possessions.”, says Mohammad Tahib Shoro, a father of six in the Sindh region of Pakistan.

  • 23/08/2010
    Pakistani women cope with flood’s aftermath

    “We didn’t know the flood was coming. It was night-time and we were asleep in our rooms,” says 43-year-old Rukhtaj, a mother of six. “Some people came and woke us up. They warned us that the water is rising. So we grabbed our children as quickly as possible and ran.

    “We left all of our things so we lost everything. Still, we were very lucky…maybe only 20 minutes passed from when we were woken up to when the water came.”

  • 23/08/2010
    Trócaire's Paul Healy reports from Pakistan

    Following the  national church collection in aid of the victims of flooding in Pakistan, Trócaire’s Paul Healy explains the desperate needs of the people there and what we are  doing to help.

  • 19/08/2010
    National Catholic Church collection for Pakistan this weekend

    A national collection will be held this weekend, 21 and 22 August, in Catholic churches across Ireland in aid of survivors of Pakistan's devastating floods.  Bishop John Kirby, Bishop of Clonfert and Chairman of Trócaire, is urging Irish parishioners to support collections in their local parishes so as to help Pakistani people cope with the worst flooding in the history of the State.  Trócaire is the official overseas development agency of the Catholic Church in Ireland.

  • 13/08/2010
    Síle Seoige hits a high note as she launches ‘Trad for Trócaire’

    Popular broadcaster Síle Seoige was joined by a group of musicians today in Cows Lane, Temple Bar, Dublin 2 to launch ‘Trad for Trócaire’, a new fundraising event organised by Trócaire and traditional Irish music association, Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann.

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