Disaster Management
Why Disaster Response Matters in Pakistan
Pakistan is facing disasters more frequently especially floods and extreme heat. The 2022 floods alone affected 33 million people, with massive damage to homes and livelihoods, showing how quickly a normal season can turn into a national emergency. In a country already ranked among the most climate-vulnerable globally, families living on daily wages often don’t just lose property they lose stability, safety, and access to healthcare overnight. Waduha’s Disaster Management program exists for these moments: to respond fast, protect dignity, and support families when survival becomes uncertain.
What Waduha Does During Emergencies
Waduha responds through rapid relief + on-ground recovery support. In flood emergencies, our work typically includes ration and food support, urgent medical response, and immediate assistance for displaced families especially where access becomes difficult and delays increase harm. On the ground, Waduha has carried out flood-related response in areas such as Jalalpur Peerwala / Jalalpur Pirwala and surrounding villages, including medical response visits and health support in flood-affected communities.
Our teams have also run support efforts like medical camps in affected regions (including posts referencing flood-hit communities such as Kasur) and relief distributions shared publicly through Waduha’s official channels.
Youth-Led Response, Guided by Faith
Waduha’s disaster response is led by youth—not as helpers on the side, but as the core of mobilisation. This is the same spirit Zuha built Waduha on: young people taking responsibility when others step back. In crisis moments, youth teams help assess needs, coordinate relief distribution, and support families with calm presence because in emergencies, speed + trust matters as much as supplies. Waduha’s flood-relief work has included distributions at the scale of hundreds of food/ration packs in a single response (for example, a documented distribution of 10,000 food packets shared publicly), showing how youth-led action turns donations into real, immediate relief.
And through it all, our approach stays faith-rooted: relief is delivered with dignity, fairness, and the intention to stand with people in hardship not for attention, but because service is part of who we are.
