WALI - Shelter and Support Solution for Flooding

Abstract

Floods are a common phenomenon in Pakistan especially in river bed areas. They hit almost every year. Pakistan is one of the most disaster prone countries in the world. The natural hazard threatens to affect lives and lifestyles of its people. People living in riverbed areas are more exposed to these floods which on exceeding normal flooding level, take dangerous turns. These people, who are most floods affected, own a land in riverbed so they can't shift somewhere else. It's their only source of earning. When faced with flood every year, these people contact rescue teams which in return waste their resources in rescuing people and shifting them to safe places where they should have shifted themselves beforehand. There has always been a need to minimize the impact of the flood in order to ensure long-term survival of communities living near rivers and mainstreams. The goal of the project is to design a solution to enable them to relocate and provide temporary shelter at the time of the flood in order to reduce their dependency on external help.