pride in. but when the floods came it took that away from them. the people that you see behind me where cotton farmers and also farmed maze. they told me had the floods not come, they would have something to take to the market and would have a way of looking after themselves, and yet now, they have to sit on the side of the road and wait for food be delivered. and this dirt road to nowhere, the people can go for days without eating. local aid is not enough, so even when a food truck comes, not everyone can be fed. with livelihoods destroyed in farming communities, for many of these people, aid is their last hope of surviving a tragedy that has taken so much from them. and we ll find out how this story and many others are covered in tomorrow s front pages at 10:30 and 11:30 this evening in the papers. our guestsjoining me tonight are olivia utley, who s assistant comment editor at the daily telegraph, and the broadcaster, john stapleton.
alive and ifi don t, i won t survive. , ., , ., ., survive. but it is not ust animal feed that has h survive. but it is notjust animal feed that has become survive. but it is notjust animal. feed that has become expensive. basic food has increased as well, making it unaffordable for many people. across the road from the buffaloes we meet a cotton farmer, and a family of 15 live in this tent, their crops were all lost to the water. we were farmers back home and now everything has gone, she tells me. we don t even have food for the children and some days they sleep hungry, life is difficult, she says. many of the people here are farmers, they work every day for long hours, taking care of their land, it is something they take great pride in but when the floods came it took that away from them. the people you see behind me were cotton farmers and they said had the floods not, they would have had something to take to the market and would have a way of looking themselves, and yet now they
people you see behind me are cotton farmers, and they also farm maze. if the floods had not come, they would have something to take the market and have a way to look after themselves. now they have to sit on themselves. now they have to sit on the side of the road and wait for food to be delivered. 0n the side of the road and wait for food to be delivered. on this dirt road to nowhere, people can go for days without eating. local aid is not enough, so even when a food truck comes, not everyone can be fed. with livelihoods destroyed in farming communities, for many of these people, aid is their last hope of surviving the tragedy that has taken so much from them. pumza fihlani, bbc news, sindh. let s go to dr nasim ashraf he s chairman of the pakistan human development fund, working to provide aid to those affected. thank you forjoining us on the programme. these pictures we ve been seeing over the last few days are absurdly devastating, so what kind
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