Ready for another excellent weekly compendium of water world events from the mind of Emily Green?
But her post is different this week: The Week That Was, 22-28 August 2010 focuses on the death, desperation, and destruction that the Pakistan floods have wrought.
And she is not just talking about floods, either. She provides a link to Dick Gordon's interview with psychologist Feriha Peracha, Reprogramming Child Jihadists. Peracha does not refer to Taliban by their name, but just calls them 'terrorists.'
From Emily's post:
For the last five years, Peracha has run a school for teenaged boys wrested from the Taliban. She accepted the assignment because she remembered going to the Swat Valley as a child, when she says it was a welcoming place where fruit farmers would not let her leave without feeding her.
Here is more:
As the August floods hit Swat, she described being called from the school by a major to see “people standing on the edges of the river … staring at the river as if they could stop it.” They couldn’t stop it. Now, working with aid organizations, she is trying to get food to stranded residents.
We all know that more could have and should have been done in the early days of Katrina. How to use that knowledge? For information from the Red Cross on relief for the Swat Valley, click here.
The picture from the post is by a child showing bullets raining down on the Swat Valley.
Here are some more organizations that accept donations for Pakistani flood relief. Aid is desperately needed.
"Don't look down on anyone unless you are helping them up." -- Pakistani proverb
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