Rebuilding the Road Home

2010 ANNUAL REPORT

A Crisis Is Just The Beginning

PAKISTAN

Pakistan – Julie Denesha for Mercy Corps

Sher Mahammed, 28, is a tenant farmer who works 10 acres of land. During the summer floods he was forced to leave his village. It wasn’t an easy journey: he had to pay $350 to transport his wife, four children and four goats 155 miles. For the pair of valuable buffalo he couldn’t bring along, he received only one-fifth of the normal price.

When they were finally able to return, Sher and his family waded home: the road was gone, their house destroyed. But Sher is thankful for a Mercy Corps cash-for-work project in his village. “We were hopeless,” he says. “Now we are really happy to be rebuilding our road.”

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