Tuesday 2 June 2009

Sad Story of IDPs - IV

A young girl in a bright blue dress breaks the line as men wait in a long queue leading to a distribution point at Sheikh Shehzad camp near Mardan.

Carrying bundles of pots, pans and straw matting, a young girl sets off back to her family's tent after a distribution of non-food items at Sheikh Shezhad

Volunteers cook vats of rice at a temporary roadside feeding centre in Katlang. The centre, funded by donations from local villagers, is feeding more than 4,000 people every day.

Four-year-old Habiba from Mingora has licked her plate of porridge clean at the temporary home that her family found at the government school in Pohan Colony, Mardan

During a special Friday prayer session for the displaced from Swat and Buner districts, Zubida leads a group of children from Baghdada in Mardan. In a ritual known as "Hatam Shareef", a thousand prayers are said as the children count out almonds while wishing for Peace.

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