Canada to provide another $25M to Pakistan for flood recovery, climate resilience – National | 24CA News

Canada has introduced a further $25 million in funding to assist Pakistan to get well from final 12 months’s historic flooding, in line with a press release launched by Global Affairs Canada on Monday.

The funding will go towards supporting tasks that align with the Government of Pakistan’s Resilient Recovery, Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Framework, it reads.

Pakistan skilled “unprecedented rains and devastating floods” in the summertime of 2022, which triggered the deaths of greater than 1,700 individuals and affected the lives of 33 million individuals throughout the nation, the assertion reads.

Not solely had been many houses in Pakistan destroyed, however different infrastructures had been additionally broken as properly, with hundreds of thousands nonetheless dwelling close to stagnant flood waters to at the present time.

International Development Minister Harjit Sajjan stated Canada is dedicated to serving to Pakistanis as they proceed to get well from “the widespread devastation caused by the country’s worst floods in recent history.”

“Because climate change is affecting the frequency, duration and intensity of weather events worldwide, it is essential that we support countries working to adapt to climate change and become more climate-resilient so that they are better prepared for these events and to lessen the events’ impact on communities and individuals,” Sajjan stated within the assertion.

Sajjan visited Pakistan in September 2022 to watch the affect on the bottom, in line with the assertion.

To date, Canada has offered a complete of $58 million in funding to Pakistan in response to the floods and for longer-term restoration from the floods, together with the funding introduced Monday.

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