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 and Rs 2.8 million, he said: The management of the company has decided to forgo profit for the rehabilitation of flood victims. In an interview with Chinese media, Zhang appealed to the Pakistani government to allow duty-free imports of raw materials from China for the project.

Underlining the production capacity, this manager said: This company can prepare 200 houses per month and more than 2000 houses per year. Zhang said he wants to play his part to help Pakistani brothers and sisters: “Floods have wreaked havoc in Pakistan and left millions of people homeless, and in this case, immediate rehabilitation of flood victims is very important.

The company representative also said that China is sending aid shipments to Pakistan to rehabilitate its citizens affected by the flood. A local and sustainable solution
Award-winning architect Yasmin Lari proposed a low-tech, low-cost, zero-carbon shelter for flood victims in Pakistan.

He helps residents build emergency shelters from local bamboo at a lower cost than the Chinese. "These shelters are easy to build and require minimal investment," said Laurie, co-founder of the Pakistan Heritage Foundation.

He emphasized that they can be dismantled and moved, and the same raw materials can be reused to create permanent structures.

According to information released by the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), more than 33 million people were affected by the floods and more than a million houses were damaged. More than 1,000 people died in floods that inundated millions of acres of land in this country.

Sindh suffered the greatest damage to its infrastructure, followed by Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The Ministry of Planning and Development estimates that the damage to irrigation, drainage and flood control infrastructure from this year's monsoon floods exceeds 13.57 billion rupees.

 

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