FROM THE FIELD
Oxfam is helping people displaced by fighting in Pakistan live with as much comfort and dignity as possible. But everyone is waiting for just one thing - the chance to go home. Shumon Alam reports.I am surprised and at the same time pleased when a guard stops me for my identification. I pass through a gate into a walled compound where long lines of white tents are set up on both sides of a pebbled path. In one corner children compete for their turn on the slides. To my left there are more rows of tents along a different path.Hasan Jan (50), father of 4 and the leader of the ‘wash committee’ of the Umeed camp emerges from his tent to greet us. He proudly tells us, “I am lucky that I have my family in this camp. You will not find a camp like this any where.”
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