anna maria barry-jester

pakistan floods

A flood victim stands with his belongings, waiting to be evacuated from his flood destroyed village on September 11, 2010 near the village of Kalimuri, in Sindh province, Pakistan.
  
Villagers race through flood water towards food rations in the downwash of a Pakistan Army helicopter during relief operations on September 13, 2010 in the Dadu district of Sindh province.
   
Flood victims line up to be evacuated by a Pakistani Navy helicopter in Faridabad, Sindh province on September 13, 2010.
     
  
Villagers run from the down wash of a Pakistani Army helicopter during relief operations in Sindh province on September 13, 2010.
   
Villagers fight to get on a rescue helicopter in Faridibad, Sindh province. They had been trapped for days, surrounded by at least 20 kilometers of water, without access to food or clean water.
   
A woman begs a member of the Pakistan army for food on the eve of Eid ul Fitr, the most celebrated day of the year for Muslims.
     
  
A young boy with an eye infection brought on my unsanitary conditions from the floods cries in his grandmother's lap on September 20th in Nowshera, Pakistan
   
A woman cooks for her family in a necropolis where they have sought refuge from the floods. A nearby relief camp offered them a place, but they would have to leave their animals behind, the only wealth they had left.
   
A young girl clings to her mother while being evacuated from her village in Sindh province.
     
  
Women deboard a Pakistani Navy hover craft after being rescued from their village. They were then taken to an Army refugee camp, with no idea how long they would have to stay.
   
A woman collects water from a pump at a makeshift IDP camp in Kalimuri, Sindh Province, Pakistan, on September 12th, 2010.
   
Sonia holds her 3 day old baby girl Sindhu inside her tent at a Pakistan Army run IDP camp in Sehwan Sharif, Sindh Province. She gave birth at a local hospital in Sehwan, where she was referred by medical staff at the camp. Sonia is twenty five years old, and this is her sixth child. September 16, 2010.
     
  
Sakina, 22, sits with her daughters Satara and Kahalda and their few belongings at a Pakistan Army run IDP camp in Sehwan Sharif, Sindh Province, Pakistan, waiting to be registered in order to receive a tent. Her husband is a labourer; on the day her village flooded, he went to work and the waters rose while he was gone. Sakina and her daughters were evacuated that day, and she has not seen her husband since.
   
Kids play in a camp for people displaced by the floods in Sehwan Sharif, Sindh province.
  
Two young girls play in a Pakistan Army run IDP camp near Sehwan Sharif, Sindh province.
     
  
Male residents and IDPs from the floods pray in a field in Dadu for Eid al-Fitr, the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, on September 11th, 2010. Women are generally prohibited from entering prayer areas.
   
Twelve year old Kasbano takes care of her three year old brother Athar while cooking dinner for her brothers at a Pakistan Army run IDP camp in Sehwan Sharif, Sindh Province, Pakistan on September 15, 2010. Kasbano had not seen her parents since flood waters filled her home ten days before in the village of Goza.