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The voices of people who move in the context of environmental change.
By Alex Randall
Pakistan
‘The rains came in the middle of the night, while most people were sleeping. When we woke up, there was water of about two to three feet and we did not know how to escape, because our village is far from the main road. The water was very dirty because the floods had damaged our [sanitation and water] facilities. I was very pregnant at the time, and our livestock are our livelihood so we didn’t want to leave them to die, so we did not know what to do. We were rescued in boats by the army and non-governmental organisations (NGOs). We are thankful to be alive, but we lost our livestock and now we are trying to rebuild our livelihood by starting from the beginning.’ – Fatay and Zulaikar, husband and wife of a pastoralist family in Badin district1.
‘I go to get registered [as an IDP (internally displaced person)] and they dismiss me. I don’t want to live here. I don’t want my children out on...
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