KASUR, Pakistan: Sitting on the edge of her bed at a school playground-turned-relief camp, Rubina Bibi’s voice trembled as she contemplated what would come next.
Floodwaters that swept through her village in Punjab’s Kasur district destroyed her home. Now, she wonders where her family will go once the waters recede and the camp closes.
The 40-year-old’s family is among dozens sheltering in a government-run school in Kasur, some 15 kilometers from the flooded villages along the Sutlej river near Pakistan’s border with India. They live under makeshift tents and plastic sheets, alongside neighbors who, like them, have lost everything.
“We have lost everything, our home and belongings. The greatest worry is what will happen after the water recedes and we have to leave this camp? Where will we go,” she said.
“Nowadays the world feels so cruel, and we cannot bear the thought of our daughters living outside in the open.”
