{"id":19225,"date":"2023-02-15T07:43:09","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T07:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/?p=19225"},"modified":"2023-02-15T07:43:09","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T07:43:09","slug":"australia-doubles-its-support-to-the-pakistan-flood-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/australia-doubles-its-support-to-the-pakistan-flood-response\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia doubles its support to the Pakistan flood response"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><strong> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19226\" src=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Australia-Pakistan-Flood.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Australia-Pakistan-Flood.jpg 500w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Australia-Pakistan-Flood-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Australia-Pakistan-Flood-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Australia-Pakistan-Flood-265x198.jpg 265w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><em>ISLAMABAD: Australia will double its support to the Pakistan flood response by providing an additional A$5 million in immediate humanitarian assistance, bringing its total support to A$10 million.<\/em><\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5>This new funding will complement government efforts to address the serious nutrition situation facing communities affected by the devastating flooding in Pakistan.<\/h5>\n<h5>Australia\u2019s Minister for Foreign Affairs, Senator the Hon Penny Wong, said, &#8220;The growing scale of food insecurity and human suffering is deeply concerning. The Australian Government is committed to ensuring our humanitarian assistance responds to the greatest needs.&#8221;<\/h5>\n<h5>Australia\u2019s High Commissioner to Pakistan, Neil Hawkins, in a meeting with Chairman of the National Disaster Management Authority, Lt Gen Inam Haider Malik on 14 February said, &#8220;This additional funding will help alleviate the poor food security and nutrition situation, particularly focusing on women and children.\u201d<\/h5>\n<h5>Australia will channel this new support through trusted UN and NGO partners.<\/h5>\n<h5>Australia\u2019s assistance to date has supported cash-based transfers, minor rehabilitation works, and logistics in partnership with the World Food Programme.<\/h5>\n<h5>Last month, the High Commissioner visited Sindh and met with flood-affected communities and toured their villages.<\/h5>\n<h5><em><strong>Reflecting on the visit, Mr. Hawkins said, &#8220;Thousands of people in Sindh are still suffering from the impacts of the floods. I was pleased to witness our assistance reaching directly into the hands of the most vulnerable. We are determined our support continues to be distributed rapidly and targeting the poorest.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19227\" src=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Australia-Pakistan-Flood-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Australia-Pakistan-Flood-1.jpg 400w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Australia-Pakistan-Flood-1-300x173.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/h5>\n<h5><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Australia will double its support to the Pakistan flood response by providing an additional A$5 million in immediate humanitarian assistance, bringing its total support to A$10 million. This new funding will complement government efforts to address the serious nutrition situation facing communities affected by the devastating flooding in Pakistan. Australia\u2019s Minister for Foreign Affairs, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19226,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[321,2703,3279,335,3278,48],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19225"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19228,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19225\/revisions\/19228"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}