Tuesday 2 June 2009

Sad Story of IDPs - II

A woman from Mingora is registered and given her refugee card in the female section of the UNHCR reception centre in Mardan

Watching her children spend their fifth night sleeping on the floor of a primary school in Baghdada, in Mardan, Raham fingers her prayer beads. She and 16 family members walked across the mountains to escape shelling in their village. "We came only in our clothes just to save our children.

Volunteers at a UNHCR-run reception centre in Mardan fill out forms for temporary ID cards for new arrivals

A crowd of newly arrived women and children wait to show their temporary ID cards at a distribution of rice and oil in an old cigarette factory near Mardan

With her young son in her arms and clutching a precious ration card, a woman from Swat collects sacks of emergency food aid at a World Food Programme (WFP) warehouse in Mardan

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