The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will donate approximately $7.5 million in humanitarian aid for the flood victims in Sindh and Balochistan.
Christopher Elias, the President of Global Development at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, has addressed a letter to Masood Khan, Pakistan’s Ambassador to the US, conveying that the Polio Program of the Foundation would also support 1,200 health camps that are being operated by Aga Khan University in all the flood-affected districts.
The Foundation would also put support towards the 3 maternity hospitals that are working with the burden of providing midwifery care and intrapartum services.
In the letter, Elias expressed his deepest sympathies over the losses due to the unprecedented flood on behalf of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation saying, “This is indeed a tragedy of national proportions and one which has captured the attention of the world.”
“Seeing the impact of the floods on Pakistani citizens, their homes, and their lands is greatly saddening,” he added further.
The Ambassador was also told that the Foundation has an active $4 million grant for the poor that are getting food subsidies and emergency cash transfers in the flood-affected areas.
Masood Khan thanked the Foundation for its generous support at a time when the people of Pakistan need it most.
