"When the water came,..." - Historic floods in Pakistan
"When the water came, we didn't have time to take anything with us. Our whole house was flooded. Some people in our village drowned or died because their house collapsed on top of them as the waters rushed through the village. My husband and I saved only our lives. We lost everything else, our livestock, our house, our possessions." I meet Veeru, an elderly lady, during my project visit to Sindh province in the southeast of my home country, Pakistan. More than three months have already passed since the flood took everything from her and millions of other people. Their stories are stories of climate change.
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