| Pakistan is on the 141st position on the HDI index of the UN, falling among the last twenty countries with medium human development. Several crises have shaken the country recently: after the military operations in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan faced an unprecedented crisis of internally displaced people (IDP) and in August 2010, the worst floods in decades killed almost 2.000 people and directly or indirectly affected more than 20 million people. HOPE’87 immediately responded to these humanitarian crises. Two projects in support of IDP have already been completed and one million water purification tablets and hygiene kits have been distributed. Furthermore, in course of these projects, drinking water supply schemes and sanitary facilities have been rehabilitated in the tehsil Charbagh of the district Swat. In response to the devastating flood disaster in August 2010, in cooperation with “Apotheker helfen e.V.” HOPE’87 could immediately send 2 million water purification tablets, cholera kits for about 10.000 people, malaria medication for 11.000 patients and 2.5t high energy biscuits to the affected areas. With ECHO funding relief operations were started to reinstall water supplies, to provide water storage facilities and to reconstruct sanitation facilities in flooded villages. | 
