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The government of Pakistan says a third of the country is now underwater in devastating floods. Fifty million people have been displaced and more than 1,000 have lost their lives over the past couple of months.

Outside Source spoke to people whose families have lost their homes and belongings. Sadia, a student in Quetta, the provincial capital of Balochistan, has been trying to reach her family. But her home village, Jhal Magsi, is around eight hours away. She says, "Mobility in Balochistan is zero. We can't reach them or we can't send them anything.

"We are in need of first aid relief like tents, biscuits, cakes, already cooked food and clean water to drink." Sadia describes her family's desperate situation: "Literally they don't have water to drink and they are drinking the contaminated floodwater."

Sadia is trying to help co-ordinate relief efforts and spread awareness of the situation through social media.

(Photo: Men carry their belongings through flooded street in Dera Allah Yar, Balochistan, Pakistan. Credit: Amer Hussain/Reuters)

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