Isaar trust has launched a broad relief effort to assist children and families forced from their homes and villages by intensified fighting in Pakistan’s Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP).

Approximately 2.4 million people have been displaced so far and increasing daily by thousands. Verified by all independent bodies such as the UN and the OIC.

Isaar Trust - as part of a coordinated response and in partnership with the appropriate bodies and local authorities -  will be working to ensure that children and families affected by the crisis receive emergency assistance, including health services and hygiene and household supplies. We'll also work to provide protection and education programs for children in camps or temporary shelter. Most displaced families (more than 80 percent) are not living in the camps.

We're focusing our efforts on separated children, women-headed households, families with children under five, and families that include an injured or chronically ill family member.

Children in this area are extremely vulnerable. The area is prone to manmade and natural disasters, and the lengthy conflict and intermittent fighting over the past one-and-a-half years has stretched household reserves, disrupted the local economy and resulted in the destruction of hundreds of schools. People have, in many cases, left their homes with little more than the clothes on their backs, and there is a desperate need for food and other basic items. Basic health services are also badly over-stretched.”

Isaar trust has worked in Pakistan for more than 10 years - helping improve the lives and well-being of poor and needy people in areas such as education, healthcare and emeregency relief such as as the 2005 earthquake.