With millions left homeless, focus turns to building cheap & sustainable shelters
With millions of people displaced by floods and relief efforts across the country, the focus has shifted to providing shelters for IDPs that are not only cheap, but also quick to build and easy to use. Flash floods in mid-August affected a third of Pakistan. About 627,793 people were moved to temporary camps, more than a million houses were partially or completely destroyed. These tents are made of canvas, canvas or panaflex. However, some have offered alternatives to these accommodations. prefabricated houses Pakistan's iron brother China has offered to build low-cost prefabricated houses for flood victims in Faisalabad Azad Zone to ease the suffering of this year's unprecedented floods. The Pakistani director of the Chinese construction group Henan DR Group, Zhang Shiloh, recently said that it is focusing on helping and supporting flood victims by building low-cost houses at about 1.8 million rupees per unit. Stating that the actual cost of the unit is between Rs 2.6 million