{"id":369435,"date":"2025-08-24T09:37:23","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T09:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/369435\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T09:37:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T09:37:23","slug":"birmingham-communities-rally-to-help-pakistan-flood-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/369435\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham communities rally to help Pakistan flood victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Audrey Dias<\/p>\n<p>BBC Midlands Today<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1755184337_952_grey-placeholder.png\" class=\"sc-d1200759-0 dkIvM hide-when-no-script\" aria-label=\"image unavailable\"\/><img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/bbb8c590-7f82-11f0-9ae6-2781a6562cc1.jpg.webp.webp\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"BBC A group of six men, five of whom are wearing religious headwear, are posing for a photograph. They are standing in front of a building that has a glass door. Several of the men are wearing blue high-visibility jackets.\" class=\"sc-d1200759-0 dvfjxj\"\/>BBC<\/p>\n<p>The Faizan Global Relief Foundation is helping coordinate aid shipments being sent from Birmingham<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Although they are thousands of miles apart, the devastation caused by floods in Pakistan is being felt in Birmingham.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The Faizan Global Relief Foundation in Stetchford is raising funds and organising aid shipments to help the communities affected after heavy rains wreaked havoc across the country in August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">More than 900 lives were lost, and thousands of homes were destroyed, leaving communities in dire need of assistance. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Head of the foundation, Syed Muhammad Faisal Sami, said he had seen the devastation. &#8220;I was there &#8211; their houses were gone, their family, their livelihood gone,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">&#8220;They had mud in their house because when the cloud burst with the water, heavy mud came.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">He said the charity was providing rations, food packs and water and was working with a team of doctors and volunteers to mobilise support for those affected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The foundation&#8217;s efforts were also focussed on restoring critical infrastructure, he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Mr Sami is due to go to Pakistan next week to oversee and coordinate rebuilding operations on the ground, in Jhelum.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">&#8220;We have promised with the commissioner of [Jhelum] that we will rebuild the houses for them, and especially the mosque and the community centres and the school for them as well,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1755184337_952_grey-placeholder.png\" class=\"sc-d1200759-0 dkIvM hide-when-no-script\" aria-label=\"image unavailable\"\/><img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/31243d60-7f82-11f0-9ae6-2781a6562cc1.jpg.webp.webp\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"A man wearing a blue high visibility jacket and black religious headwear. He has a beard and is stood by a glass door with charity banners behind him.\" class=\"sc-d1200759-0 dvfjxj\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Volunteer Talib Hussain says they wanted to support communities affected by the floods in Pakistan<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">In Pakistan, one eyewitness said: &#8220;I&#8217;ve seen the children, they&#8217;ve lost their parents, even the parents we have seen were crying because they have lost their children as well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Back in Stetchford, volunteer Talib Hussain, also expressed his concern: &#8220;It&#8217;s a very emotional time for us and therefore we want to help our families back in Pakistan.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Audrey Dias BBC Midlands Today BBC The Faizan Global Relief Foundation is helping coordinate aid shipments being sent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-369435","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115083073788981601","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}