Helping Pakistan's Most Vulnerable
By Laura Sheahen You must have the flash player in order to watch this video.
2009 was a tumultuous year for Pakistan, with thousands of people displaced by war and many more still struggling with the effects of earthquakes, droughts and entrenched poverty. Watch this video to see how Catholic Relief Services in Pakistan is:
- Building schools
- Educating children at risk
- Providing impoverished areas with clean water
- Teaching job skills to refugee women
- Improving irrigation for crops
- Building roads that link remote villages to clinics
- Teaching villagers how to avoid germs
- Supporting people who fled their homes during war
Laura Sheahen is CRS' regional information officer for Asia. She is based in Cambodia.
