BBC News - Despair of Pakistan's forgotten flood victims

BBC News - Despair of Pakistan's forgotten flood victims

Liaqat Babar, a farmer in Pakistan's southern province of Sindh, sees just one escape from the hunger, loss and torment inflicted by the recent catastrophic floods. Suicide.

"When I see my kids, I feel like killing myself," he says.

"We are powerless. We just keep quiet and ask God for death."

Three months after the flooding which affected 20 million people and one fifth of the country, Liaqat has no home, no hope and no answers for his six children.

"They are crying for food, " he says.

"I tell them God will send someone very kind, and I send them to sleep. In the morning they ask again for food, and I say again that God will send someone."

Liaqat was among a throng of broken men queuing for hours under a blistering sun, at a distribution of aid in the town of Daur.

Like many other areas in Sindh, Daur is cut off by water - an island of desperation.

Troops were deployed to control the hungry, who began gathering at six in the morning.

With a single helicopter the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) could only bring in 250-300 rations. But three or four times that number had joined the queue.

"It is heartbreaking," said WFP's Dorte Jessen, looking across at the swelling crowd. "The need is so big, and you want to help everyone."

Help is still needed desperately in Pakistan. Care.org is one of many charity agencies through which you can choose to give.