We have been actively distributing food, clothing and medical aid within a hundred mile radius from Khairpur City. Essentially our focus is on Khairpur District, an area of about 16,000. Sq. km. However, we were called to address the refuges camped at Sukker and Ghotki districts as well due to govt. neglect.

We are providing free medical aid thru a mobile clinic and dispensary that attends to the displaced people within our range. Completely destitute people are unable to purchase medicine worth less than a dollar for easily curable diseases resulting in unnecessary death. People suffer from various illnesses, such as skin diseases, Cholera, Diarrhoea, Gastroenteritis, Malaria, respiratory diseases, snake bite etc. Medical aid provision is our prime engagement. .

We provide food, in the form of clean water, liquid milk, Dry foods high in carbohydrates & protien, bread and cooked foods as well as supply weakly rations of wheat, rice, meats, lentils, oil, salt, and other ingredients for those who have cooking facilities.

Clothing has been distributed amongst those refugees who have been unable to salvage any from the flood. While in the summer the temperatures are as high as 54 Celsius/130 Fahrenheit in the shade, in winter they can be as low as 0 degrees Celsius. Clothing for winter is already being collected.

The usual method of providing shelter to flood affectees, for NGOs is through coordination with the govt. of Pakistan. Typically the NGO arranges for the land to build a tent camp/city and then requests the govt. for the provision of tents that have been donated to Pakistan govt. by foreign donors. The UN World Food Program and other foreign donors also provide food supply and other basic needs such as toilets and clean drinking water to these camps thru the govt. The camps are managed by the NGOs.

While our priority was simply assisting other camps in the severe shortages of these basic needs we have now become actively involved in shelter provision. Initially, Prince Mehdi Raza offered the palace grounds for setting up camp as clean water supply was plentiful, however, the local govt. did not provide tents as promised due to unknown reasons. Nevertheless, the prince provided a building formally used as staff quarters that is now accommodating about 12 families that were originally living under the shade of the Tukker Palace because they could not find any shelter. This is a temporary solution as this building has been dedicated for a school for the provision of education for the underprivileged and should have been operational now. We are looking to provide a superior form of temporary shelter made by using bricks, plastic sheets, bamboo and date palm leaves that can afford better protection from the burning sun than a tent. For this, the funds that are presently available are not sufficient.

At the moment flood affectees are the most vulnerable people in Pakistan. In a lawless environment, where the State itself is the most corrupt organization, the tribulations of the poor are amplified manifold. While our resources are small, the social position of Prince Mehdi Raza causes people to turn to him in times of trouble. For example, miscreants robbed refugees of their basic needs. It was the Prince who arranged for the miscreants to be arrested and the property returned. Similarly, govt. officers had neglected the refugees in their own camp and had not provided drinking water. The concerned officers were goaded into providing water once complaint was received. Our monitoring and coordination arises from such actions.

Our Team represents the Prince when we engage other organizations especially the govt. We monitor the conditions in the camps and take interviews of the refugees. Recently, the refugees had come to the palace to complain that the govt. had not provided them with food rations despite having received them from foreign donors like Unicef and World Food Program. This situation was rectified within a day.