Doctors Without Borders

The floods that first struck Pakistan in July 2010 devastated villages and communities across the country. Some 100,000 people fled to Karachi, the country’s largest and richest city, though one with an already enormous slum population. The people who arrived in Karachi between July and October 2010 received help from community-based organisations and authorities who responded quickly to the floods. However, after October, little assistance was available to people who were trying to survive. Those sorely in need of basic necessities like clean water and medicine were left largely to fend for themselves.

Urban Survivors is a multimedia project by Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in collaboration with the NOOR photo agency and Darjeeling Productions, highlighting the critical humanitarian and medical needs that exist in slums the world over.

Photo: © Alixandra Fazzina/NOOR