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Pakistan

Pakistan: How Food Rations Reached A Hungry Family's Home
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Published on 6 September 2010
  • Pakistan: Sarwar Mai waiting in line
  • Pakistan: Wheat flour for a month
  • Pakistan: Taking the Rickshaw home
  • Pakistan: Home for now
  • Pakistan: A place to sleep
  • Pakistan: Turning rations into ruti
  • Pakistan: A three-stone stove
  • Pakistan: The finished product
  • Pakistan: A family meal
  • Pakistan: Familiar Food
Pakistan: Sarwar Mai waiting in line
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Pakistan: Sarwar Mai waiting in line

Sarwar Mai (left), a widow forced from her home by the flooding in Punjab, waits in line for her family's food rations at a distribution point in the town of Kot Addu with her friend, Sharifan (right).

Pakistan: Wheat flour for a month
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Pakistan: Wheat flour for a month

Sarwar Mai is given 80 kg of vitamin-enriched wheat flour, enough to provide her and her family with flat bread -- known locally as roti -- for a month.

Pakistan: Taking the Rickshaw home
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Pakistan: Taking the Rickshaw home

Sarwar Mai loads her rations onto a rickshaw, which will take her back to the dilapted schoolhouse where she and two other large families have been living since the floods destroyed their homes. 

Pakistan: Home for now
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Pakistan: Home for now

Sarwar Mai and her son return to the school house with their ration of oil, sugar and wheat flour.

Pakistan: A place to sleep
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Pakistan: A place to sleep

This is where Sarwar Mai and her children have been sleeping six to a cot together with members of the other families since they were forced to seek shelter in this old schoolhouse.

Pakistan: Turning rations into ruti
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Pakistan: Turning rations into ruti

As soon as Sarwar Mai arrives, she and the other women begin turning their flour ration into dough.

Pakistan: A three-stone stove
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Pakistan: A three-stone stove

The bread is cooked on a broad pan balanced on three stones over an open fire. So-called "three-stone stoves" like this are a common way of preparing meals throughout Pakistan.

Pakistan: The finished product
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Pakistan: The finished product

The finished product looks like this. A soft, warm piece of bread every bit as nutritious as it is filling.

Pakistan: A family meal
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Pakistan: A family meal

Sarwar Mai and her family sit on their cots together to share a piece of roti bread, a staple food in Pakistan often served for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

 

Pakistan: Familiar Food
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Pakistan: Familiar Food

The taste of warm, familiar food is all it takes to coax a smile from these kids, who've known nothing but hardship and loss since the monsoon rains began.

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