Shelter Solutions for Spontaneous Camps in Charsadda and Nowshehra
January 1st, 2012 To March 31st, 2012

Monsoon floods of 2010 left millions of people homeless across the country. Those people who had some resources or got some assistance from humanitarian organizations managed to rebuild their homes. The most unfortunate and least resourceful people mostly the tenants who neither had resources nor had a piece of land where they could resettle, and therefore were forced to live in spontaneous camps which were established after the monsoon floods of 2010. With shift of the focus of the humanitarian organizations and government agencies to other big magnitude issues these people virtually had no option to settle with dignity in some permanent house.

FRD with collaboration of UNHCR agreed upon provision of lands and shelter to these vulnerable families of Saleem Sugar Mills Charsadda and Kheshgi Spontaneous Camps.

FRD started the construction of the shelters for the families who managed to acquire land somehow through their own resources and with the financial help of some generous individuals, for the remaining families too FRD coordinated with various individual philanthropist and arranged land, and now all of these families either have own land or have legal rights to use a piece of land for their permanent residence.

The project has benefited 35 families with 181 individuals (55.25 % Male and 44.75% female) who were living in these spontaneous camps for last 18 months.

The provision of permanent shelter to these families have not only provided security and protection to these families but also enabled them to cope up with the freezing cold in winter as well as scorching heat in summer. It will also help in restoration of their livelihood means with the peace of mind of having home of their own and will be able to concentrate on earning their livelihood.